Account Manager

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