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The Strategic Account Manager identifies, wins, maintains and expands relationships with strategically important large customers. Assigned to several specific named customers, the Strategic Account Manager is responsible for winning new Antech customers, achieving sales quota and assigned strategic account objectives. The Strategic Account Manager represents the entire range of company products and services to assigned customers, while leading the customer account planning cycle and ensuring assigned customers’ needs and expectations are met by the company.
Job Responsibility:
Establishes productive, professional relationships with key personnel in assigned customer accounts
Ability to develop organic opportunities with existing customers and develop new business relationships with emerging customers
Coordinates the involvement of cross-functional support across the company in order to meet account performance objectives and customers’ expectations
Meets assigned targets for profitable sales volume and strategic objectives in assigned accounts
Achieves assigned sales quota in designated strategic accounts
Meets assigned expectations for profitability
Achieves strategic customer objectives defined by company management
Completes strategic customer account plans that meet company standards
Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings that meet company standards
Completes required training and development objectives within the assigned time frame
Proactively leads a joint company-strategic account planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones for a one and three-year period
Proactively assesses, clarifies, and validates customer needs on an ongoing basis
Leads solution development efforts that best address customer needs, while coordinating the involvement of all necessary company personnel
Ongoing monitoring of current market landscape for new business development related opportunities and challenges
Coordination of proposal process including document templates, standard text, quality assurance and document management
Management of broad Antech representation at select industry events
Work with internal functional teams by attending zone and regional meetings to facilitate the understanding of national account opportunities for growth and standardization of offerings by field team
Requirements:
Minimum 4 years’ experience in animal health sales, pharmaceutical sales, marketing, or biotechnology experience
University Degree in Science or Management, post-graduate degree an asset
Proven ability to network and develop new business relationships
Proven track record with corporate veterinary practice groups, channel management or equivalent
Experience with contract negotiations
Advanced knowledge of the veterinary pharmaceutical industry
Strong business and financial acumen
Strong analytical and mathematical skills
Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
Effective interpersonal and leadership skills
Effective organizational skills
attention to detail
Ability to consistently meet deadlines
Excellent problem-solving skills: ability to resolve issues effectively and efficiently
Excellent presentation skills
Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and other Office Programs
Experience with veterinary practice management systems