Key Accounts Director in Basildon

Location:Basildon Contract Type:Permanent Reference:UK05425

Competitive salary plus commission
Company Car
25 days holiday & bank holidays
Life Assurance
Company Pension Scheme
Health Cash Plan
Paid volunteering day

PURPOSE

As the Key Account Director (KAD) you will drive sustainable, long-term revenue growth and profitability for a company by strategically managing its most valuable and high-potential client relationships.

WHAT WE DO

Advanté Ltd. is the UK's original designer and supplier of \"Oasis Instant Start Self-Contained Welfare Units.\" Pioneering sustainable innovation since 1998, we provide robust, reliable, and unique self-contained site welfare solutions, including the EcoLogic Solar and EcoMax Solar/Hybrid ranges, Vision toilet blocks, and PowerStations. Our products are essential to the UK's leading construction, housebuilding, highways, infrastructure, utility companies, among others, helping them cut emissions, noise, and fuel costs while delivering the highest quality welfare facilities. We are committed to sustainability, holding accreditations like a Platinum EcoVadis Medal and FORS Gold.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Working with other functions

• A close effective relationship with the Key Account team to ensure appropriate focus and follow up on customer requirements




• Clear effective communication of customer requirements to all Advante employees charged with delivering excellent customer service




• Building strong working relationships with Head of Operations to promote and deliver consistently high customer quality and service.




• Ensuring company policy on financial discipline, contract profitability and credit provision is strictly adhered to.




• Work closely with Algeco UK to ensure opportunities for regulation compliant products are identified and followed up to maximum success




• Strong working relationship with credit control to ensure customer queries are minimised and resolved in a timely manner and customer payment profiles are maintained within agreed terms.




• Act as the internal \"voice of the customer\" across departments

Working with our customers

• Championing customer satisfaction, encouraging retention and quality service and exceeding the UK NPS target.




• Building and maintaining multi layered relationships with the influential people within our key customers’ organisations.




• Developing customer plans, in conjunction with customers, which position Advante as a key supply chain partner across all functions maximising the involvement of key functional leads.

Supporting sales strategy

• Developing and implementing strategic account plans for customers within your allocated portfolio.




• Working with the Head of Sales to support the development and implementation of customer specific sales strategies.




• Identifying and developing proposals for existing & emerging markets, product development & innovation and customer solutions.




• Collecting, monitoring and messaging status of market and competitor landscape.




• Understand customer strategy, market position, pain points, and success drivers




• Provide solutions that align to both customer needs and company capabilities

Protecting and growing our sales revenues

• Strategically and profitably, protect and grow revenue from your allocated portfolio of key accounts.




• Identifying opportunities for new products and services that will strengthen our offering to our customers and deliver required return on investment.




• Delivering quality sales proposals in response to tenders and enquiries from customers.




• Ensuring company determined boundaries and hand-offs between sales functions are followed on a day to day basis.

Responsibilities within team

• Actively participating within Key Accounts team, and in wider business environments, embracing company culture, vision and strategy.




• The support of other team members sharing experience, knowledge and best practice.




• Demonstrating adherence to corporate policy and procedure, and legislative requirements.




• Effectively identifying, coordinating and leading key personnel within opportunity teams to ensure we maximise our opportunity win rate.




• Supplying sufficient, accurate information and account strategies to the Key Account ISE team to allow them to support account growth and to accurately and effectively process orders.




• Taking an active part in developing and closing opportunities for accounts owned within your portfolio of accounts

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Puts safety first and will stringently apply the Advante safety policies.




• Possesses and entrepreneurial attitude towards winning business




• Promotes a customer first mind-set and understands the commercial need to balance that approach with business financial returns




• Is a focused and driven account director who strives to exceed their targets.




• Is a first class relationship builder who is at ease with the Algeco UK matrix organisation and able to work cross functionally.




• Takes pride in their excellent sales skills and constantly strives for further improvement




• Is not averse to change and can communicate process improvements effectively.




• Follows the company processes and standards to the letter of the law.




• Has a full driving licence.

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Our commitment toequality, diversity and inclusionis more than a wish list. We actively encourage a culture where everyone feels at home. Algeco is a place that brings together the very best people and their unique skills, experiences, abilities.
Research demonstrates that women and underrepresented groups tend not to apply for a job unless they meet all the criteria. However, we encourage applications from anybody who can demonstrate their ability to fulfil the job even if they don’t meet every requirement. We're committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued, respected and like they belong, regardless of their background or identity and are therefore committed to providing a fair and inclusive recruitment process and will consider all applications on their merits.

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