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Tag: Influence without authority

Strategic account manager skills and competencies, Uncategorized

Aligning the company behind the SAM account strategy

By Eric Pinard
Owner
Business Mentor Consulting

As soon as I was appointed strategic account program vice president for Schneider Electric, the global energy management and automation firm, my boss asked me a simple question, “Eric, what is the main preoccupation keeping you awake at night?” I didn’t even take one second to think about it, the answer was so obvious: “For sure, the internal alignment of the company!”

Even if your program is very mature and well structured, it will always be a challenge to transform a great account strategy in the SAM’s computer into an operational plan capable of mobilizing all the energies of your company to be at the disposal of the performance of your account. Rather than a strict process, I propose guidelines and an eight-step methodology. If you tick all of these eight boxes and respect the chronology, you’ll be on your way to your goal.

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April 11, 2019July 3, 2019Account and enterprise alignment, Influence without authority, SAMA Annual ConferenceLeave a comment
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