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What are your options when you're a key account manager and ready for your next move? Working in the same job for a long time can cause you to feel uninspired. To keep yourself motivated and happy in your work, it’s important to switch things up every now and then. We discuss how in this episode of The KAM Club:
Some of your career options for key account managers:
Strategic Account Manager. Look after bigger, more complex, more prestigious accounts.
Global account manager. Manage accounts in multiple regions, where decision making and policies are centrally decided.
Manager/Director. Move into leadership roles
Business Development or Sales. Focused on lead generation and account acquisition and growth.
Customer Success. Customer success is focused on working proactively in partnership with customers to help them get more value out of your solutions over time. (check out Grow Gain Retain Customer Success Community)
Change industries. Maybe you still like your job, just not the industry it's in?
Job craft. Take proactive steps and actions to redesign what we do at work, essentially changing tasks, relationships, and perceptions of our jobs
LINKS MENTIONED
Gain Grow Retain. Customer Success leadership community.
Why Smart Key Account Managers Grow a Personal Brand. Episode 17 of the podcast where I explain how personal branding can transform your career trajectory.
Zety. Online CV maker that will whip your resume into shape in no time. You can get 2 weeks access for around $3.
20 Free Courses for Key Account Managers to Boost Your Skills Now. To grow client revenue and retention, key account managers need a variety of skills. Find out what they are and how to learn them with 20 free courses for key account managers.
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Release Date: 30/11/2022, 13:02:56
