Account Manager – Excellent Opportunity!!!

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Account Manager to join a very well-established company who are the UK’s premier distributor of mobile and consumer electronics accessories.

The role:

To maintain, develop and increase trade relationship with allocated account base, driving profitability and identifying, researching and analysing new business opportunities.

• Daily contact with accounts
• Giving constant market information to assigned accounts
• Plan and priorities personal sales activities and customers/prospect contact towards achieving agreed business aims
• Manage product, pricing and margins according to agreed aims.
• Report and analysis of accounts’ progress
• Carry out and support marketing activities to agreed budgets and timescales, and integrate personal sales efforts with other organised marketing activities, e.g. product launches, promotions and advertising.
• Attend and present at external customer meetings to aid business development
• To oversee order, invoice, stock management on your accounts
• Work with manufacturers to secure ranging and promote sell through of products
• First point of contact for allocated accounts
• Dealing with any account issues with your Sales Manager
• Fulfilment of POS, training requests and marketing promotional activities
• Manage customer awareness of issues, which may affect delivery of goods and services
• Work with the account administration team to ensure delivery dates are met on accounts with schedules, and that goods are booked in prior to these dates
• Work with internal departments to ensure all areas of the account are being run effectively/projects are within timeline
• Update your Sales Manager on problems or issues solved and actions taken on accounts

Experience required:

Ability and confidence in presenting

Understanding of the retail environment

Ability to use Excel, PowerPoint and databases

Knowledge and ability to execute marketing activities within retail and corporate channels

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