Account Manager

Chesterfield
1 year ago
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Inspire Resourcing are currently recruiting for an Account Manager on behalf of our client based in Chesterfield.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a market leading business with opportunities to develop your career.

Duties:

  • Own, manage and build development plans for your client list

  • Fully understand our full range of products and services

  • Primary point of contact for all communication with network of key contacts at different

  • levels/departments in each client

  • Plan, attend and follow up client meetings and reviews

  • Setting up new clients and managing the new client rollout successfully

  • Making accurate cost calculations, and providing customers with quotations

  • Closing deals, drawing up the contractual detail and commercial agreement

  • Gathering market and customer information and providing feedback on future buying trends

  • Update your line manager regularly on key opportunities and issues

  • Negotiating variations in price, service, or specification with clients

  • Representing the at all times in a professional manner

  • Completing administrative and reporting requirements

  • Review your own performance with a view to meet or exceed target expectations

  • Working with companies management team to deliver the customer’s needs whilst identifying

  • potential issues and or opportunities

  • Any other tasks deemed appropriate.

    Key Skills:

  • Excellent interpersonal skills

  • Be personable. Must have a friendly and approachable personality for client communication.

  • Strong business sense and commercial awareness

  • Competitor awareness - markets/services/clients/development plans

  • Excellent communication skills - written and verbal

  • Be self-motivated and a competent individual worker but also able to work as a team

  • Excellent organisational and time management skills

  • Negotiation and persuasiveness skills

  • Positive attitude and emotional maturity to handle conflict and challenge

  • Initiative and enterprise

  • Professionalism at all times

  • Trustworthiness with confidential information

    £25k - £27k

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