Customer Account Manager (Midrand)

Role Description

The Customer Account Manager is responsible for managing a defined portfolio of existing customers and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction, retention and revenue growth. The role focuses on:

• Proactive account management and relationship building.
• Delivering a structured schedule of customer visits and engagement touchpoints.
• Identifying and closing upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
• Maintaining accurate Customer Relationship Management records and a reliable revenue pipeline.

Key Responsibilities

• Customer Relationships and Retention
• Act as the primary point of contact for an assigned portfolio of customers.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including doctors, practice managers and administrators.
• Proactively manage customer retention by identifying at-risk accounts early and taking appropriate action to stabilise and retain them.
• Conduct regular customer visits and engagements, either face-to-face or virtually, according to the agreed frequency.
• Ensure consistent customer engagement and the development of meaningful, long-term relationships.
• Account Management and Revenue Growth
• Take responsibility for the revenue performance of the assigned portfolio, with a clear focus on:
• Retaining existing revenue.
• Growing revenue through upselling and cross-selling.
• Understand each customer's business, use of the company's products and future requirements to identify relevant upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
• Present and position additional products and services to existing customers and successfully close suitable opportunities.
• Maintain and manage a revenue pipeline covering upselling, cross-selling and account-expansion opportunities.
• Customer Education and Value Realisation
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of all company products, services and programmes.
• Provide product education and guidance to help customers maximise the value and use of the company's solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor by recommending process or practice improvements based on the company's capabilities and recognised best practices.
• Assist customers in understanding how available products and services can support their operational and business requirements.
• Issue Coordination and Customer Advocacy
• Coordinate with the Support and Implementation teams to ensure that customer issues are addressed effectively and within the required timeframes.
• Monitor important or high-impact issues within the assigned portfolio.
• Follow up with customers to confirm that issues have been resolved and that they are satisfied with the outcome.
• Capture customer feedback and insights and communicate them to the relevant internal stakeholders, including Product, Marketing, Sales and Support.
• Identify opportunities to improve internal account-management processes and customer-engagement practices.

Key Performance Indicators Performance will be measured according to the following indicators:

• Customer retention rate within the assigned portfolio.
• Adherence to the agreed customer-engagement schedule, including the number and quality of customer visits and contacts compared with the planned activity.
• Upselling and cross-selling revenue generated from existing customers compared with the monthly revenue target.
• Customer Relationship Management system discipline, including:
• Percentage of customer activities recorded.
• Completeness and accuracy of customer data.
• Revenue pipeline coverage.
• Accuracy and quality of forecasts.

Ideal Candidate Profile Experience and Background

• Experience in account management, customer success or relationship management, preferably within a business-to-business, professional services or technology environment.
• Exposure to the healthcare industry or experience selling to and servicing professional practices, such as doctors, specialists and practice managers, will be a strong advantage.
• A proven track record of:
• Retaining customers and stabilising at-risk accounts.
• Growing revenue from an existing customer base through upselling and cross-selling.
• Comfortable working towards monthly revenue targets and account-level performance indicators.
• Experience using a Customer Relationship Management system to manage customer activities, revenue pipelines, sales opportunities and forecasts.

Skills and Competencies Relationship Management and Customer Retention

• Able to build and maintain long-term, trust-based relationships with busy professionals.
• Skilled in conducting structured customer visits and engagements, both in person and virtually.
• Able to hold meaningful, value-driven conversations with customers.
• Capable of identifying early warning signs that a customer may be dissatisfied or considering leaving.
• Able to implement proactive actions to retain customers and strengthen relationships.

Commercial and Revenue-Growth Focus

• Understands how to connect customer needs and product usage with relevant upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
• Confident in presenting and positioning additional company products and services to existing customers.
• Able to manage a portfolio-based revenue pipeline.
• Capable of prioritising activities that support customer retention and revenue growth.
• Comfortable negotiating and closing additional sales opportunities.

Consultative and Educational Approach

• Possesses strong questioning and active-listening skills.
• Able to understand customer challenges and translate them into suitable solutions.
• Provides clear product guidance and helps customers gain maximum value from the solutions they use.
• Positions themselves as a trusted advisor rather than a transactional salesperson.
• Able to explain technical or complex product information clearly and professionally.

Organisation and Customer Relationship Management Discipline

• Highly organised when planning customer visits, follow-ups and engagement schedules across a portfolio.
• Diligent in recording all customer activities and maintaining complete, accurate and current information within the company's Customer Relationship Management system.
• Maintains accurate customer records, revenue pipelines and forecasts.
• Uses customer and account information to plan activities, prioritise accounts and manage pipeline health.
• Able to manage multiple accounts, responsibilities and deadlines effectively.

Collaboration and Customer Advocacy

• Works effectively with internal teams such as Support, Implementation, Sales, Marketing and Product to resolve issues and provide a seamless customer experience.
• Communicates customer feedback, concerns and insights effectively to the relevant internal stakeholders.
• Advocates for customers while balancing their needs with the company's commercial objectives.
• Contributes positively to cross-functional teamwork and information sharing.

Personal Attributes

• Customer-focused and service-orientated while remaining comfortable with commercial targets.
• Proactive and self-driven, taking full ownership of the assigned customer portfolio.
• Does not wait to be prompted before contacting customers or addressing potential concerns.
• A clear and professional verbal and written communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Analytical and structured, with the ability to interpret customer usage, revenue and pipeline information and turn it into practical actions.
• Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to manage difficult conversations, objections and changing customer requirements.
• Accountable, dependable and committed to delivering consistent results.
• Commercially aware and able to identify opportunities that benefit both the customer and the company.

*Salary - R22,000 - R32,000 + Petrol (Negotiable, based on skills, experience and in relation to current package)

Desired Skills:

• Account Manager

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