This course is designed to transform participants into business advisors and high-yielding and profitable relationship managers whom clients rely on and companies value. The course provides a practical road map to understanding and growing existing and high-potential accounts. Participants will learn how to create account development plans, craft solid business relations with accounts, and harness retention strategies profitably. The course also provides a strong focus on quantitative approaches to account qualification and showcases best practices in service management necessary for growing and retaining strategic accounts.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define the functions and process of strategic account management while highlighting its importance for the commercial organization
• Identify and prioritize strategic accounts to measure their profitability and qualify their strategic importance for their company
• Classify the different levels of customer relationships to enhance the way they interface with such customers  
• Develop customer-focused plans and strategies needed in the development of strategic accounts
• Build core strategic account competencies related to research and service management to meet the ever-changing challenges in the market

This course is targeted at cross functional personnel who seek to understand modern customer management practices to improve cross functional support and develop personal careers in strategic account management. The program is also conceived for sales managers who oversee the development of key customers as well as key account managers responsible for managing the relationship and the performance with strategic customers.

• Account planning
• Networking skills
• Cost to serve computations
• Account classification models
• Customer retention and loyalty
• Customer research
• Service management
• Developing performance reports