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Championing KAM – Interview with Cyryl Pryzbyl, Vetoquinol’s KAM leader

Vetoquinol’s KAM journey, like most companies’, has taken time. After the launch, things slowed down as people realised the scale of the change required: it was going to take more time, money and resource than they had ever imagined. In this interview, Cyryl Pryzbyl talks about the common issues he discovered and overcame, which will be…

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Member Webinar Clinic

In this first of AKAM’s webinar ‘clinics’, Vice Chairmen Richard Ilsley of SMCG and Mike Green of Capita share their experience to answer questions sent in by members. Topics included more personal queries from individual Key Account Managers and big, thought-provoking questions from KAM programme directors. They covered: What are the best measures of success…

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Creating value through partnership

Tyrone Morris (Client Managing Director, Xerox Corporation) explains the importance of partnering with clients and gaining an awareness of the whole company before entering the Procurement process. Having a best-in-class bid team only works if it wins, and the chances of winning are hugely reduced if there’s no closeness with the customer by the time the bid is out.

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Making senior management involvement in KAM work – 2023 Conference

Have you ever wished you could get your senior managers to do something with your key accounts? Paul Wilson, ex Pfizer Centre of Excellence and now a leading consultant in senior management in KAM, gives tools and strategies that will change the way you work with your Senior Management team. This is such an important…

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Executive sponsors: what and why? | 2023 ANNUAL Conference

Discover how having a strong advocate at the executive level can propel your initiatives forward and open doors to new opportunities. Thiery Josselin’s session, recorded as part of AKAM’s 5th annual conference, unveils the significance of executive sponsorship and explores resource-securing techniques, cross-functional support, and building strong key account relationships. Don’t miss out on this…

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Executive sponsorship

The automotive sector is so highly concentrated that excellent KAM is essential, not an option. So perhaps it’s not surprising that Thierry Josselin of Axcelis (AKAM Key Account Manager of the Year 2021) has ample experience of the great executive sponsorship which so many other companies fail to enact. In this short video he itemises…

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Developing Executive Sponsorship

Alistair Taylor suspects a minority of companies operate executive sponsorship for KAM. Yet Rafi Habibian is clear that it’s essential to show the key account that the organisation is serious about their importance as well as demonstrating the role of KAM internally. But how does it work, what do good executive sponsors do – and…

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What can KAM and HR Management share about informal influencing?

Below you can see the recorded webinar and view the presentation slides for the AKAM webinar ‘What can KAM and HR Management share about informal influencing?’. This webinar was presented with combined experience from Ramūnas Bagdonas, People and Engagement Head for Telia Lithuania, a leading Telco and IT provider, and Geoff Quinn, Director of KAM Centre of Excellence…

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Engaging Top Management in KAM

KAM is a corporate strategy, so obviously involvement of Top Management is essential. But does your organisation really have it? Astonishingly, many key account managers don’t think so. Why not? Does your Top Management think they’re accountable for KAM? What should their involvement look like? What can you do about it? This webinar will address these…

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KAM/Sales management stressors: When it frustrates…and when it doesn’t

KAM often results in (counterproductive) stress – but where does it really come from? Research shows that no single factor induces stress, it’s about different combinations of stressors So how do you achieve ‘non-stress’ i.e. mellowness? And should you try? It’s not just the flip-side of stress.

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