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Key Account Manager

Essex
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Key Account Manager

Key Account Manager (covering the Essex and Hertfordshire areas)

This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which involves a combination of working field-based, visiting customer sites/our offices, and also remotely.

Here at RS, we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and ambitious Account Manager to join our successful, innovative sales team. We are a company that takes great pride in the investment we make in our people, providing them with every chance to become a success.

You will not stand still in this role, and we will provide you with the training, support, and the opportunities for progression that you need to take your career further. This is your chance to be a part of an open, diverse, and truly world-class sales team!

Here Is More About What You Will Be Doing...

Spending a part of your time 'on the road', you will be the key point of contact for our customers covering an area encompassing Essex and Hertfordshire. These companies are incredibly varied, coming from a range of different industries and backgrounds. You will be working closely with these customers, looking to identify their challenges with a view to providing them with top-in-class solutions, taking your portfolio to the next level. You will also work to:

  • Identify and target revenue potential within your portfolio.
  • Producing robust business plans that exceed sales and profit targets.
  • Building a detailed understanding of the customers, markets, and competitors.
  • Maintain and upkeep accurate customer records.
  • Building coalitions across the business to support the delivery of sales targets including with the internal account managers.

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What existing skills and experience will you need to be successful in this opportunity?

  • Experience in a field-based sales role with account management responsibilities and exposure to working to KPIs and targets.
  • You are open-minded, possessing the ability and wiliness to embrace change.
  • Someone who takes a solution-led approach to their work.
  • You possess a proven ability in strategic thinking and planning.
  • You are an excellent relationship builder.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Any Salesforce CRM or B2B experience would be a bonus!
  • And of course – a driving licence is essential!

We Are RS

We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.

We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.

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Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

  • Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
  • Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
  • Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
  • Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

Ready to Make Amazing Happen?

Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.

Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.

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Skills

Field-Based Sales
Account Management
KPI Management
Solution-Led Approach
Strategic Thinking
Planning
Relationship Building
Communication Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Salesforce CRM
B2B Experience
Driving Licence

Location

Essex, England, United Kingdom

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