Key Account Team Leader

Salary: £78,000 per year

Job Title: Key Account Team Leader

Company: A-SAFE Group

Who We Are?

The A-SAFE Group is a rapidly growing and dynamic environment where open mindedness, curiosity and drive are important. As the market leader, the A-SAFE Group is determined to hold its position and create opportunities for continued growth and development. We have a true global presence including USA, Japan, Australia, Europe, and UAE.

We are known for our innovation and ‘can-do’ attitude. A place where talent can thrive and develop as we grow. We invented the first industrial strength polymer safety barrier, revolutionizing workplace safety. We’ve been improving world standards ever since, introducing further advanced safety solutions, including our next generation RackEye IOT safety device. 

Global blue-chip companies use our products including Coca-Cola, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Amazon, and Heathrow airport to name but a few.

Due to continued growth, and in-line with our development strategy, we are looking to appoint a Key Account Team Leader who will be responsible for the management of a team of key account coordinators and market intelligence analysts and supporting the wider global key account team in achieving their objectives.

How You Can Help Us

• Manage and develop a team of Internal Key Account Coordinators and Market Intelligence Analysts – initially comprising 6 people.
• Develop a strong working relationship with our external Key Account Managers, assisting them with all administration and providing all necessary support for them to be super-effective in the field.
• Develop a strong working relationship with stakeholders at our key accounts to ensure we have multiple levels of contact and communication, avoiding a one person to one person communication bottleneck.
• Develop and implement a communication system to ensure all our local subsidiary sales / key account teams are fully up to speed with developments and agreements with our key accounts.
• Carry out and co-ordinate all follow-ups from face-to-face meetings between our external Key Account Managers and our key accounts, including working across internal HQ departments.
• Create and monitor internal systems to measure sales, control contacts and opportunities, manage rollout programmes across our global key accounts. 

What We Would Like You to Bring to Our Team

Essential:

• Proven experience of supporting an external sales force.
• Proven experience of building remote relationships with multi-discipline customer contacts.
• Proven experience of using CRM systems.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Proven experience of managing and developing internal sales / support teams.

Our values are at the core of everything we do:

• We are Pioneers
• We are in it Together
• We do the Right Thing

This is a great opportunity to join at a time of rapid growth. We have huge global demand for our products due to our leading-edge safety innovation, with subsidiaries in seventeen countries. We offer a fast-paced, energetic, and creative environment, working with the latest technologies.

We are continually investing in our people and offer bespoke training, professional study support and career opportunities for all – whether that’s helping you fulfil your potential in your current role or to help you aim even higher, we’ll work with you to make sure it happens. To help us maintain this ethos, our ‘Grow our own’ committed obligation ensures at least 50% of vacancies are filled through internal development and promotion, which can be seen from the success stories on our careers website.

Other group benefits include 25 days holiday, pension, flexible start and finish times, flexible long-weekend scheme, buy/sell holidays scheme.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE. We do not accept speculative agency CVs. Any CV received by us will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee.