Key Account Manager

Salary: £42,000 – £45,600 per year

Key Account Manager – North Yorkshire – £Attractive
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an outgoing, intelligent and ambitious person to work as a Key Account Manager, in a dynamic, growing company based in beautiful surroundings.
Candover Green is working with a well-established and successful company operating within the growth industry of environmental compliance and consultancy. The company has achieved year on year growth and is the perfect environment for a driven individual to fulfil their working ambitions.
You will be an integral part of the sales and marketing team looking after key clients, suppliers and other stakeholders ensuring you keep and develop the long lasting relationships. A prime customer facing role to capture key members needs and deliver against their expectations, striving to exceed these wherever possible. Identifying, developing and maintaining agreements with suppliers and delivery partners in support of the business objectives and the changing regulatory landscape. Seeking out new and innovative ways of working with external stakeholders to ensure the company continuously enhances their brand.
The company attributes its’ ongoing growth and success to its’ employees and is committed to rewarding and recognising their contribution as well as prioritising employee well-being. The company has won numerous awards. This is an amazing opportunity to become part of a unique high-performance reward structure, some benefits you will receive when joining the team include;
Ø Competitive salary plus uncapped bonus
Ø Support with personal development and progression
Ø Attractive holidays, flexible working hours, pension, medical insurance, sabbaticals, access to employee benefits platform ‘Perkbox’ and membership to the all-encompassing employee health and well-being programme
Ø Other benefits include regular team building events, volunteering opportunities and many more
Key Role Responsibilities
· Account manage and build relationships with key customers and suppliers to include providing support in relation to all their needs and gathering intelligence to inform organisational strategy and decision making
· Attend networking events
· Identify and generate sales opportunities through cross-selling, up-selling and identifying new prospects and supporting the sales team with closing them
· Customer retention
· Monitoring and reporting on competitor activity
· Support with, and manage high-value tenders
· Review and optimise commercial contracts
· Develop new strategies to drive business growth
· Work closely with the Sales and Marketing team to shape company offerings to meet the requirements of the market
· Keeping internal systems up to date and accurate with all information gathered
In order to be considered for this role you will have;
A proven track record as a successful business to business account manager, you will have excellent communication skills and be fully adept with Microsoft Office. You will work well in a team with a ‘muck in’ approach being flexible and open to change when business demands require. You must have a strong work ethic working well under pressure with excellent organisational skills. You will have the ability to turn a challenging situation into a positive outcome and have a positive, enthusiastic and persistent approach. With the ability to quickly grasp technical legislation and policy, you will be instantly likeable and a true people person. You will also have strong B2B experience selling services within a Evironmental/Recycling network.