Resume Skills and Keywords for Key Account Manager

Key Account Managers are professionals mainly responsible for the development of long-term strategic partnerships with significant customers of the company they work for. They are skilled in closing sales, nurturing corporate relationships, cross-functional leadership and strategic planning. They have excellent orator skills and are proficient in communicating and pitching presentations to hopeful customers. They mainly look after the key or crucial big clients of the firm.

Skills required for a key account manager role:

  • Account Growth and Management
  • Sales
  • Relationship Building
  • Presentation Skills
  • Project Management 
  • Communication Skills 
  • Marketing
  • Customer Support

What recruiters look for in a key account manager resume: 

  •  Skills for developing trust relationships with a portfolio of major clients to ensure they do not turn to competition
  • Acquiring a thorough understanding of key customer needs and requirements
  • Expanding the relationships with existing customers by continuously proposing solutions that meet their objectives
  • Experience in sales and providing solutions based on customer needs

What can make your key account manager resume stand out:

A strong summary that demonstrates your skills, experience and background in key account management

  • Goal- oriented key account manager experienced in maintaining, retaining, and growing customers in an assigned location with the help of an effective relationship-building strategy. Possesses advisory skills and keeps a check on the timely implementation of customer-related programs, services, and quality standards.

Targeted job description 

  • Maintain, retain, and grow customers through effective relationship-building within the assigned territory
  • Work closely with a global account manager to identify, develop and land a larger customer base
  • Cultivate true partnerships with customers based on a clear understanding of the range of CVPs, and fully understand customer needs to deliver maximum value
  • Carry out financial negotiations with customers, prepare quotations and proposals and reach an agreement on all operational requirements

Related academic background 

  • Bachelors of Business Administration from Sri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi, Jun 2018- Jun 2021
  • Introduction to Accounting at University of Manchester 


Sample Resume of Key Account Manager in Text Format

PRIYANKA SEN  

Key Account Manager

7980443260| priyanka.sen@gmail.com I New Delhi, India

SUMMARY

Goal- oriented key account manager experienced in maintaining, retaining, and growing customers in an assigned location with the help of an effective relationship-building strategy. Possesses advisory skills and keeps a check on the timely implementation of customer-related programs, services, and quality standards.

EXPERIENCE/INTERNSHIP

Key Account Manager ► Cintas, Hyderabad Jan 2023 - Present

  • Maintain, retain, and grow customers through effective relationship-building within the assigned territory
  • Work closely with a global account manager to identify, develop and land a larger customer base
  • Cultivate true partnerships with customers based on a clear understanding of the range of CVPs, and fully understand customer needs to deliver maximum value
  • Carry out financial negotiations with customers, prepare quotations and proposals and reach an agreement on all operational requirements

Key Account Manager ► Inmagine, New Delhi Dec 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Generated sales with new and existing customers by setting up a meeting, phone calls, emails, and other platforms 
  • Met monthly sales quota and collection targets
  • Developed plans, promotional activities, and strategies to draw in new industry segments
  • Identified opportunities within industries (including but not limited to FSI, Retail, FMCG, or Travel & Aviation) and collaborate with the entire enterprise sales team.

Key Account Management Intern ► Eurofins, New Delhi Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENTS

Courses

  • Introduction to Accounting ►  University of Manchester  Jul 2018 - Oct 2018

EDUCATION

Bachelor in Business Administration► Sri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi, Jun 2018- Jun 2021 

SKILLS (TECHNOLOGY/FUNCTIONAL)

Account Growth & Management | Sales | Relationship Building | Presentation Skills | Project Management | Communication Skills | Marketing | Customer Support