Key Account Manager

Job description / Role

The Key Account Manager is responsible for managing key accounts, maintaining a long term relationship with accounts and maximizing sales opportunities within them.

- Play an integral role in new business pitches and hold responsibility for the effective on-boarding of new clients
- Maintain and update all contact information of the assigned accounts
- Establish and maintain continuous and timely communication of prospective, existing, lost and non-purchasing accounts
- Responsible for the development of a strong pipeline in order to achieve sales targets allocated through the assigned accounts and other direct sales channel
- Focusing on growing and developing existing clients, together with generating new business
- You will act as the key interface between the customers/key account and all relevant divisions throughout the sales cycle.

Requirements

- Previous experience in Account Management or Territory Sales
- Previous experience with Military (internal or external)
- Display a go getter attitude
- Experience of managing high level contacts and accounts
- Ability to communicate extremely professionally with high ranking military personnel and government officials
- Previous experience in dealing with high net worth contracts and transaction
- Multilingual
- Strong report writing skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Presentation skills
- Strong ability to learn technical information required to perform the required duties
- Ability to work under high pressure and plan / prioritize workload
- Attention to detail
- Ability to use own initiative
- Proactive & innovative approach to problem solving
- Highly self-motivated
- Accountable, Reliable, Mature work ethic
- Available to travel

Experience in any OR all of the following industries;
- Automotive (sales/after-sales/service & maintenance)
- Heavy Machinery
- Paramilitary
- Military supplies
- Mechanical Engineering
- Security & Intelligent Experience
- Knowledge of Salesforce, MS, Outlook

About the Company

Established in Canada in 1992 - STREIT Group is one of the world's leading, privately owned armored vehicles manufacturers with 12 state-of-the-art production facilities and 25 offices worldwide. More than twenty three years of war zone experience made STREIT Group one of the most trusted and reliable suppliers of armored vehicles.

We produce a large variety of Armored Personnel Carriers, Cash-in-Transit, Luxury and Security vehicles which are designed to provide effective protection in high-risk situations. All our vehicles undergo internationally recognized ballistics and impact tests, with STANAG 3 certification for military tactical vehicles and VPAM BRV 2009 VR7 for luxury and special purpose vehicles.

We are a leading supplier of armored vehicles with 100% safety record; our vehicles are deployed by armed forces all over the world. We take no chances when it comes to saving lives.