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Key Account Management Training

Key Account Management Training

1 Weeks
Professional Level
Certificate Included
Course Content

Available Events

Available Events
CityDatePriceStatus
GenevaSwitzerland
September 17, 2026
€4,600
Confirmed date
DubaiUnited Arab Emirates
September 19, 2026
€3,900
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IstanbulTurkey
September 28, 2026
€3,900
Confirmed date
Kuala LumpurMalaysia
October 23, 2026
€4,400
Confirmed date
AmsterdamNetherlands
October 26, 2026
€4,600
Confirmed date
ParisFrance
October 31, 2026
€4,600
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SingaporeSingapore
November 14, 2026
€4,800
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LisbonPortugal
November 16, 2026
€4,400
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OnlineOnline
November 17, 2026
€1,790
Confirmed date

Course Information

Duration

1 Weeks

Category

HR Courses

Level

Professional Level

Certificate

Included

INTRODUCTION

Key accounts often represent a significant proportion of an organization’s revenue, profitability, reputation, and future growth potential. Managing these customers effectively requires a structured approach that extends far beyond routine sales activities. Account managers must understand the customer’s strategy, business model, decision processes, challenges, priorities, and competitive environment. They must also build trusted relationships with multiple stakeholders across operational, technical, commercial, and executive levels. Effective key account management aligns customer needs with the organization’s capabilities, resources, and long-term commercial objectives. This course introduces a disciplined framework for selecting accounts, assessing opportunities, designing value propositions, and executing account growth strategies. Participants learn how to protect existing revenue while developing new opportunities across products, services, departments, and locations. The program combines strategic analysis with practical communication, negotiation, planning, and performance management tools. It enables professionals to manage complex accounts with greater confidence, consistency, and commercial impact.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will achieve the following objectives by this course:

  • Understand the strategic role of key account management in sustainable business growth.
  • Identify and prioritize accounts using value, potential, profitability, and strategic fit criteria.
  • Analyze customer strategies, business models, priorities, challenges, and purchasing behaviors.
  • Map stakeholders, decision-makers, influencers, supporters, and potential relationship risks.
  • Develop differentiated value propositions aligned with customer needs and commercial objectives.
  • Create structured account plans with measurable revenue and relationship goals.
  • Apply consultative selling techniques to uncover opportunities and strengthen customer trust.
  • Manage negotiations, pricing discussions, objections, and complex commercial agreements effectively.
  • Coordinate internal teams and resources to deliver consistent customer value.
  • Measure account performance, retention, profitability, risks, and growth opportunities.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This program targets a professional audience seeking to improve knowledge and skills:

  • Key account managers responsible for strategic customers, revenue protection, relationship development, and account growth.
  • Sales managers overseeing major accounts, commercial performance, opportunity pipelines, and customer retention.
  • Business development professionals identifying expansion opportunities across products, services, markets, and customer divisions.
  • Customer relationship managers coordinating service quality, stakeholder engagement, and long-term partnership development.
  • Commercial managers responsible for pricing, profitability, contracts, negotiations, and strategic customer agreements.
  • Sales executives preparing for broader responsibility in complex account management and consultative selling.
  • Product and service managers collaborating with sales teams to develop customer-specific solutions.
  • Senior leaders seeking stronger governance and visibility across strategically important customer accounts.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1: Key Account Management Strategy and Account Selection

  • Defining key account management and its strategic organizational value.
  • Distinguishing key accounts from standard customers and sales opportunities.
  • Establishing account selection and segmentation criteria.
  • Evaluating revenue, profitability, potential, influence, and strategic fit.
  • Identifying account risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.
  • Understanding the key account manager’s roles and responsibilities.
  • Aligning account strategy with corporate and sales objectives.
  • Designing a structured key account management operating model.
  • Assessing current account management maturity and capability gaps.

Day 2: Customer Analysis and Stakeholder Relationship Mapping

  • Analyzing customer strategy, structure, business model, and market position.
  • Identifying customer priorities, challenges, pressures, and performance objectives.
  • Understanding buying processes, procurement practices, and decision criteria.
  • Mapping decision-makers, influencers, users, gatekeepers, and sponsors.
  • Evaluating stakeholder power, interest, attitude, and relationship strength.
  • Identifying relationship gaps and single-contact dependency risks.
  • Developing executive, operational, technical, and commercial relationships.
  • Planning effective customer meetings and engagement activities.
  • Creating a comprehensive customer and stakeholder profile.

Day 3: Value Propositions and Strategic Account Planning

  • Translating customer needs into relevant commercial opportunities.
  • Developing differentiated value propositions for key stakeholders.
  • Quantifying financial, operational, strategic, and risk-related customer value.
  • Identifying cross-selling, up-selling, renewal, and expansion opportunities.
  • Prioritizing opportunities according to value and probability.
  • Setting account revenue, profitability, retention, and relationship objectives.
  • Developing actions, responsibilities, milestones, and success measures.
  • Integrating competitive analysis into strategic account plans.
  • Producing a complete and actionable account growth plan.

Day 4: Consultative Selling and Complex Account Negotiation

  • Applying questioning techniques to uncover strategic customer needs.
  • Conducting value-based conversations with senior decision-makers.
  • Presenting solutions using evidence, outcomes, and business impact.
  • Managing objections, concerns, resistance, and competing priorities.
  • Preparing negotiation objectives, positions, concessions, and alternatives.
  • Protecting value during price and contract discussions.
  • Negotiating multi-stakeholder and long-term commercial agreements.
  • Handling procurement pressure and competitive negotiation tactics.
  • Building mutually beneficial agreements that support long-term relationships.

Day 5: Account Execution, Performance, and Growth Governance

  • Coordinating internal teams around customer commitments and priorities.
  • Establishing clear ownership, communication, and escalation arrangements.
  • Managing service issues, conflicts, expectations, and relationship recovery.
  • Monitoring account revenue, profitability, pipeline, and retention indicators.
  • Conducting structured account reviews with customers and internal leaders.
  • Identifying early warnings of dissatisfaction and account loss.
  • Updating account strategies according to changing customer conditions.
  • Strengthening customer loyalty through continuous value creation.
  • Presenting a strategic account plan and executive action recommendations.

COURSE DURATION

Duration: 1 Weeks

This intensive professional program is delivered over five consecutive training days, combining expert instruction, facilitated discussions, strategic account analysis, stakeholder mapping, consultative selling exercises, negotiation simulations, case studies, group workshops, and applied account planning activities designed to produce immediately usable commercial capabilities.

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

The program is delivered by an experienced sales and key account management professional with expertise in strategic selling, customer relationship development, account planning, commercial negotiation, value proposition design, stakeholder management, sales leadership, and revenue growth, supported by practical experience managing complex business relationships across diverse sectors.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

No, it develops capabilities progressively from account selection to strategic execution.

CONCLUSION

Strategic key account management is essential for protecting valuable revenue and building sustainable customer growth. This course provides a practical framework for selecting accounts, understanding customers, developing value, and coordinating execution. Participants strengthen their ability to manage stakeholders, create opportunities, negotiate effectively, and measure account performance. The program transforms account management from reactive selling into a structured commercial discipline. Graduates will be prepared to build stronger partnerships, increase retention, and deliver profitable long-term growth.

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