The Strategic Account Manager is responsible for new customer acquisition, managing accounts receivables, and business development through relationship building with corporates and financial institutions. They ensure service expectations are met and maintain data hygiene for client interactions, while also providing regular updates and forecasting to management.
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Role: Strategic Account Manager
Location: Coimbatore
Key Responsibilities
- New customer acquisition in assigned territory
- Daily reporting of all sales activity
- Business development & relationship building with corporates/charted accountants/merchant bankers and signing MOUs with them for self-ratings/corporate profiling/sectoral study reports/economic and social Impact reports/investors' confidence reports/ESG consulting solutions
- Would be responsible for driving individual targets
- Responsible for the overall accounts receivables
- Provide industry updates at regular intervals and maintaining a constant relationship with the existing customers through courtesy meetings
Operations
- Ensure process adherence at all times and error free timely delivery of projects
- Liaising with the operations team for a smooth delivery of the end product and ensuring the service expectations of the customers are met
- Maintaining the data/client contact details in appropriate data warehouses hygienically
- Progress reviews and forecasting reports are filed periodically as required by the management
- Regular update of all the activities in the tools provided and track the movement of all such activities
Key Requirements
- MBA or any post-graduation with relevant experience of 5-7 years in new client acquisition
- Prior experience in credit ratings/consulting/advisory
- Strong experience in B2B sales/corporate sales
- Experience in complete sales cycle
- Strong record of achieving sales year on year
- Should have good knowledge of the local commercial and industrial belts
- Ability to comprehend and analyze financial statements
- Highly articulate with excellent business communication (verbal and written) skills and presentation skills suitable for a global corporate environment
- Strong analytical skills and ability to provide value added insights
- Possesses excellent MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint and MS-Word skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Primary External Interactions
- MD/Directors, CXO’s, Proprietors, Industry Chambers and Corporate Associations, Charted Accountants & Consultants
Primary Internal Interactions
- Finance, HR, Facility, IT Infrastructure, Heads of Other SBU
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