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Tag: Financial skills

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

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