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Category: Strategic account manager skills and competencies

The skills, competencies and behaviors that enable the strategic account manager to successfully develop and sustain mutually profitable, long-term strategic customer relationships.

Podcast, Strategic account manager skills and competencies, Technology

Creating meshed relationships: A conversation with Arpedio co-founder Ulrik Monberg

If you aren’t building and maintaining deep, wide relationships inside your strategic accounts, you’re in trouble. We talk to the co-founder and CEO of Arpedio about the importance of creating meshed relationships with your strategic customers.

Listen to this episode of The SAMA Podcast here.

July 9, 2020March 31, 2022Interpersonal relationship skills, Multifunctional account team leadership, Relationship Mapping, Stakeholder Management1 Comment
Podcast, Strategic account manager skills and competencies

Getting inside your customer’s head: A former CFO on how companies make investment decisions

Ever wonder how your customer’s finance team evaluates supplier proposals? It’s a lot easier to position your company’s value when you understand how the customer buying team thinks. Chris Ferguson – who has worked as an investment banker and held executive roles in sales and in finance – spills the beans.

Listen to this episode of The SAMA Podcast here.

June 18, 2020March 31, 2022Dealing with procurement, Financial skills, Value quantificationLeave a comment
Podcast, Strategic account manager skills and competencies

Helping your customers through crisis: Lessons learned on Sept. 11

What can the experience of 9/11 teach us about helping our customers through the pandemic? We ask SAMA’s own Chris Jensen – who, on the morning of Sept. 11, was a sector head for the global leader DHL.

Listen to this episode of The SAMA Podcast here.

March 30, 2020March 29, 20219/11, Communications skills, Crisis management, customer-centricity, DHL, LogisticsLeave a comment

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