- Location
- Krakow, xxx
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Sales
- Seniority
- Manager
Description
Account Manager
Department: Account Management
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Poland
Description
The Account Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily execution and coordination of client work, ensuring accurate and punctual delivery across all key project touchpoints. They act as a liaison between clients, suppliers and internal teams, helping to manage timelines, clarify briefs, source products, follow up local productions and resolve issues with a clear, calm, and collaborative approach.
Responsibilities
- Based on customer briefs initiate all product development and source new concepts in collaboration with Procurement and Creative.
- Produce accurate customer quotations and ensure quality samples for proposals. Diligently follow-up all quotations distributed to generate orders.
- Communicate status to key stakeholders to ensure timely completion of orders and project deliverables.
- Complete transactions on procurement system(s) accurately and in timely manner to enable correct reporting, including but not limited to, customer weekly reports, forecasts, profit Improvement plans.
- Populate project folders with required information to create an auditable path for each project.
- Demonstrate creativity and share new ideas with peers.
- Ensure that the client sales and profit budget is exceeded and that all costs related to your orders are strictly controlled.
- Ensure customer service is a priority. Identify and resolve all issues within agreed SLA’s.
- Provide professional presentations to customers as and when required.
- Participate in industry trade shows to develop and maintain business relationships, improve product knowledge and identify opportunities to increase sales.
- Develop sound supplier relationships, observe customer trends, identify cross-selling opportunities and act on these.
- Monitor competitor’s promotions and activities and share information with team members
- Ensure compliance with brand guidelines, sustainability guidelines, budget, and process standards in all activities.
Skills and Experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Fluency in Polish and English.
- Sound knowledge of Print, Packaging & 3D Cardboard POS manufacturing methods, including thorough understanding of retail operations and rework process.
- Ability to identify feasible product solutions for the client.
- Excellent project management skills are key to the role, and a high level of detail is expected.
- Ability to interpret and communicate client briefings with our/third party creative teams or suppliers to ensure most effective response and product solution.
- Understanding of individual cultural differences and ability to establish and maintain relationships with colleagues and clients.
- Team player with the ability to lead by example.
- Have a basic understanding FMCG route to market process and experience of servicing FMCG client brand.
- Engage with client brands and share the commitment to achieve mutual objectives.