certified Account Manager:in

Step by step to success in sales

Course
This course is held in German.
Quickly acquire the optimal know-how for your career in sales! In the three modules that build on each other, you will become acertified account manager". We will teach you specialist knowledge, negotiating skills and strategy and prepare you optimally for your challenges as a sales professional. In Step 1, you will quickly learn how to sell successfully, in Step 2 you will train how to successfully conduct sales talks and negotiations in sales, and in Step 3 you will learn how to be successful in sales with strategy.

Certified by the Hochschule der Wirtschaft für Management (HdWM), Mannheim

This further training course was designed in cooperation with the Mannheim University of Applied Management Sciences and meets the university's quality standards in terms of overall concept, content, trainers and examination. As a result, participants benefit from high-quality qualifications with guaranteed topicality, high practical relevance and excellent trainers.

Recommended procedure

STEP 1 JUNIOR
Sell quickly and successfully.

Compulsory module 1: 3 days in person or live online

Sell professionally 

  • Acquiring new customers – digital thinking helps.
  • Structured approach in sales talks.
  • Systematic area coverage – focus beats diligence.
  • Which smart AI tools you can use to speed up your daily sales activities.

Lessons Learned
After completing the training, you will receive a summary of the exam-relevant content via your learning environment to help you prepare for your final exam.


final exam E-exam: Certified Account Manager - Junior (30 min.)


STEP 2 Advanced
Successfully conducting sales talks and negotiations in sales.

Compulsory module 1: 2 days in person or live online

Selling professionally II

  • Fundamentals of sales psychology.
  • Manage customer relationships.
  • Evaluate customer potential.
  • Customer-oriented argumentation and persuasion strategies.
  • AI as a sparring partner for strong wording and follow-ups.

Compulsory module 2: 2 days in person or live online

Negotiation training for sales professionals

  • Professional preparation for negotiations—with artificial intelligence.
  • Strategic conversation techniques – guidelines for achieving goals.
  • Psychology of negotiation – positively influencing the negotiation climate.
  • Conduct negotiations confidently—authentically and with quick wit.
  • Challenging negotiation situations – calmly mastering difficult situations.

Lessons Learned
After completing the training, you will receive a summary of the exam-relevant content via your learning environment to help you prepare for your final exam.


final exam E-exam: Certified Account Manager - Advanced (45 min.)


STEP 3 Professional
Achieve sales success with strategy, tactics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Compulsory module 1: 2 days in person or live online

Negotiation training for the sales professional II

  • The information board – knowledge is power.
  • Negotiating power – position your own position .
  • The tough negotiation – winning the match.
  • Negotiating as a team – the FBI approach.
  • Personal authority, charisma, and authenticity in negotiations.
  • Skillful use of harsh methods.

Optional module: training a training (2 days)

  • Strategic Selling (2 days in person or live online)
  • Prompt my Sales: Using AI efficiently in sales (2 days in person or live online)
  • Sales 4.0: Successful Selling with Artificial Intelligence ( 2 days in person or live online)
  • Artificial Intelligence Along the Customer Journey (2 days in person or live online)

Lessons Learned
After completing the training, you will receive a summary of the exam-relevant content via your learning environment to help you prepare for your final exam.


final exam E-exam: Certified Account Manager – Professional (60 min.)


E-library

You will receive the following e-learning courses in Subject area artificial intelligence free of charge for 12 months:

  • Prompt Engineering
  • Using artificial intelligence in everyday work

STEP 1 JUNIOR
Sell quickly and successfully.

Acquire the know-how you need to start selling. You will learn about the essential tasks involved in the sales process and will be able to structure and tackle your work effectively and efficiently. You will acquire important fundamentals for consultation-intensive sales, receive proven "tools of the trade" ranging from customer potential analysis to the development of a customer activity plan, and gain confidence in your consultations when dealing with artificial intelligence and in sales talks.


STEP 2 Advanced
Successfully conducting sales talks and negotiations in sales.

You will deepen your knowledge and practice the most important aspects of sales preparation, negotiation, and follow-up, thereby laying a solid foundation for successful sales activities. After completing this intensive module, you will be able to act confidently and successfully and master the full range of tasks required of a salesperson.


STEP 3 Professional
Achieve sales success with strategy, tactics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

You will continue to expand your skills. You will prepare yourself with versatile technical and methodological skills that will pay off in your next negotiation or sales pitch. In the elective module, you will also have the opportunity to specialize.


With this practical "certified Manager" training program, you will lay the foundation for your successful career as an account manager in sales in three coordinated steps. In three steps, you will acquire versatile technical, methodological, and negotiation skills. After completing this training, you will be able to master your challenges and better achieve your goals.


The flexible concept
You can decide for yourself when and where you want to take the individual compulsory modules and the elective module. We recommend completing the modules in the order listed within approximately 1 to 2 years and then taking the final written exam. Compulsory modules and the elective module can be waived if you can provide proof of relevant qualifications.
 

Compulsory modules

This is the recommended schedule for the compulsory modules. The dates can be selected in the shopping cart.
1
Selling professionally I
With AI boosts, hybrid selling, and social selling on point
3 days
at 9 locations and online
2
Selling professionally II
Score points in sales with personality, AI boosts, and hybrid sales expertise.
2 days
at 8 locations and online
3
Negotiation training for the sales professional I
Negotiate more successfully in distribution and sales
2 days
at 11 locations and online
4
Negotiation training for the sales professional II
Leading tough negotiations in distribution and sales more successfully
2 days
at 7 locations and online

Elective modules

You can select 1 elective module in your shopping cart. These are already included in the discounted package price.
Strategic selling
From individual measures to strategic customer management
2 days
at 4 locations and online
Prompt my Sales: using AI efficiently in sales
2 days
at 11 locations and online
Sales 4.0: Successful selling with artificial intelligence
More productive, more effective, more convincing - AI selling
2 days
online
Artificial intelligence along the customer journey
Successfully using AI tools in sales
2 days
at 3 locations and online

Examination

The examination is included in the discounted package price.
E-exam: Certified Account Manager - Junior
Certified by the University of Applied Management Sciences, Mannheim
30 minutes
online
E-exam: Certified Account Manager - Advanced
Certified by the University of Applied Management Sciences, Mannheim
45 minutes
online
E-exam: Certified Account Manager - Professional
Certified by the University of Applied Management Sciences, Mannheim
60 minutes
online

Also included in your continuing education

This content is part of your continuing education. However, it is not listed in the shopping cart.
E-library: 2 e-learning courses Subject area artificial intelligence
12 months free of charge
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Using artificial intelligence in everyday work

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

  • High flexibility: You decide when and where you attend the individual modules.
  • Certification: This recognized qualification will give you a head start as a certified account manager.
  • Final examination: This documents your in-depth knowledge as a basis for the further development of your professional career.
  • Individual feedback: In each module you will receive practical impulses and individual feedback from the trainer.
  • You will learn important basics for successful sales activities: from sales preparation to conducting negotiations and follow-up.
  • You know the phases of the sales pitch and use various techniques and methods to increase your sales success.
  • You will receive proven "tools of the trade": from customer potential analysis to the development of a customer activity plan.
  • You will learn how to present yourself professionally and behave competently and confidently in sales talks.

 

Recommended for

newcomers in distribution and sales, practitioners, career starters and career changers who want to optimize their sales activities. sales persons who already have sales experience and junior salessales persons who want to develop into account managers. Become a successful certified account manager with specialist expertise and the necessary soft skills, face new, exciting challenges in the future and master them with ease!

 

Final examination

Examination requirements

Prerequisite is the completion of all compulsory and elective modules.

Exam preparation 

After the training, you will receive a summary (=Lessons Learned) of the exam-relevant content via your learning environment in preparation for your final exam.

Form of examination

Written final exam, e-exam. To save travel costs and time, you can take the e-exam on your computer at work or at home.

Exam contents

After each of the 3 modules (steps), you will take a written final exam. The training content of all compulsory modules is tested in written form.

After successfully completing each final exam, you will receive a recognized certificate from the Haufe Akademie. After you have completed all three final exams, you will receive the recognized certificate of the Haufe Akademie and the Mannheim School of Management,certified Account Manager:in".

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With them, you digitally demonstrate the competences you possess. After successful completion, you will receive an Open Badge from us.

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Booking number
30199
€ 7.190,- plus VAT
11 days
4 compulsory seminars, 1 elective seminar, 3 e-exams, and 2 e-learning courses
with certificate
German
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11 days
4 compulsory seminars, 1 elective seminar, 3 e-exams, and 2 e-learning courses
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