Key Account Manager – Saint Martin de Crau (France)
To support this fast growing business unit, Katoen Natie is looking for a Key Account Manager for its site in Saint Martin de Crau (France).
Responsibilities
- Responsible for one or more clients, focusing on the commercial relationship and the monitoring of the quality of the services provided.
- Guarantees the legal coverage of the performed (logistics) activities.
- Develops a good working relationship with customers to enhance customer satisfaction and customer retention.
- Is the internal key source regarding customer and market intelligence for his/her customer portfolio.
- Follows up closely and comments the profitability of these customers internally.
- Monitors the compliance with the contractual agreement from both the customer and the own organization.
- Negotiates and renegotiates contract extensions or ad hoc services.
- Determines the most crucial needs of assigned customers and translates this into an annual key account plan to ensure that they receive first‑class customer care and service.
- Performs an annual customer satisfaction query and responds to this with an action plan.
- Interacts and communicates with the client on a regular basis to determine changing tastes and preferences.
- Guarantees monthly accurate invoicing.
- Delivers the annual budget and comments the financial result in a monthly management letter.
- Has full P&L responsibility for the assigned customers.
- As there is no hierarchical link, it is crucial that the Key Account Manager develops a relationship of trust and confidence with the Operations manager.
Toolkit
- Monthly management meeting
- Volume review & forecast
- KPI performance
- Issue log review
- Legal/contract dashboard
- Customer satisfaction query
- Management letter
- Communication plan
Your profile
- Keywords: Committed / Social / Analytical / Bird’s eye perspective / Jack-Of-All-Trades
- Education: Minimum Bachelor degree, preferably in economics, or similar by experience
- Willingness to travel
- English: intensive professional experience
- French: intensive professional experience
- Additional language skills are a plus.
- Advanced Excel knowledge
- Advanced PowerPoint knowledge
- Basic negotiation skills.
- Basic financial analysis skills.
Required experience - 5 years
Minimum 5 years experience required.
We offer
- An exciting job in a leading dynamic company with no‑nonsense culture.
- A job with high responsibility and lots of variety.
- An attractive salary package.