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Key Account Management

A practical professional programme focused on key account management, designed to strengthen commercial capability, customer value and market performance.

Type
Specialist
Level
Advanced
Duration
5 days
Delivery
In person, Live online, In-house
Languages
English, Arabic

Key Account Management develops the capability to manage strategically important customers through structured account planning, relationship development and value creation.

The programme examines account selection, stakeholder mapping, customer priorities, opportunity development, relationship strategy, account plans, profitability and performance review.

Participants learn how to move from transactional selling toward long-term commercial partnerships built around mutual value and disciplined account management.

Objectives

  • Understand the principles of strategic key-account management.

  • Identify and prioritise strategically important accounts.

  • Develop deeper understanding of customer organisations and stakeholders.

  • Build account strategies focused on mutual value.

  • Strengthen account planning, performance monitoring and relationship management.

Learning outcomes

  • Evaluate and prioritise key accounts using structured criteria.

  • Map customer stakeholders and decision relationships.

  • Identify strategic customer needs and account opportunities.

  • Develop a practical key-account plan.

  • Monitor account performance, value and relationship strength.

Who it is for

  • Key account managers.

  • Account directors and executives.

  • Business-development professionals.

  • Sales managers.

  • Commercial professionals responsible for strategic customers.

Programme modules

1. Key Account Management Foundations
  • Strategic accounts

  • Account-selection criteria

  • Customer value

  • Relationship orientation

2. Understanding the Account
  • Customer strategy

  • Business priorities

  • Account economics

  • Competitive position

3. Stakeholder Mapping
  • Decision-makers

  • Influencers

  • Relationship strength

  • Stakeholder priorities

4. Account Opportunity Strategy
  • Needs and opportunities

  • Value creation

  • Cross-selling and development

  • Competitive differentiation

5. Key Account Planning
  • Account objectives

  • Relationship actions

  • Opportunity plans

  • Responsibilities and timelines

6. Account Performance and Review
  • Revenue and profitability

  • Relationship indicators

  • Account risk

  • Strategic account reviews

Methodology

The programme uses account-planning frameworks, stakeholder-mapping exercises, customer cases and opportunity scenarios. Participants build a structured account strategy for strategically important customers.

Assessment

Assessment includes account-analysis exercises and a final applied assignment requiring participants to prepare and justify a key-account plan for a defined strategic customer.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

For your organisation

This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.

Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.

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Upcoming sessions

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