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certified Key Account Manager:in Capital Goods and Services
Further training for the successful support of your key accounts
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.
- Understanding Key Account Management
- Key account plan - objective, structure, content and practical implementation
- Key Account Manager:in as a success factor
- AI-Powered Key Account Analyses That Unlock Potential
- Effective analysis, planning and acquisition
- Key accounts and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Data and AI as tools for more precise customer engagement.
- 1 hour of free, individual transfer coaching (by phone) with your trainer
You will receive two e-learning courses on Subject area artificial intelligence:
- Prompt Engineering
- Using artificial intelligence in everyday work
and, for optimal knowledge transfer, e-learning: Negotiating skillfully.
All free of charge for 12 months.
Lessons Learned
After your training, you will receive a summary of the exam-relevant content via your learning environment in preparation for your final exam.
Final examination
You document your expertise with the e-test.
Understanding Key Account Management
- Targeted Customer Development – Differences from Industry-Specific and Regional Sales.
- Customize resources to meet specific customer needs—identify areas requiring action.
- Cross-departmental and cross-regional responsibility.
Key Accounts
- Use customer drivers for your own acquisition strategies.
- Selection criteria and number of customers to be managed sensibly.
- Analyze customers in context, understand win-win situations, and expand them.
Key Account Manager:in as a success factor
- Consulting/Relationship Management – external and internal.
- On par with (top) management codes of conduct.
- Operational vs. strategic acquisition/responsibility/control.
AI-Powered Key Account Analyses That Unlock Potential
- A Holistic Approach to Key Accounts: Start by approaching them through management levels; avoid the purchasing department initially.
- AI supports the comprehensive strengthening of customer relationships.
- Economic benefit as a purchasing decision criterion: Translate the various dimensions of benefit—using AI—into customer-specific value propositions and align them with the customers’ evaluation criteria.
- Make the services offered tangible, both financially and emotionally.
Key accounts and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Services/business models reimagined digitally.
- Data and Artificial Intelligence—AI as a Tool for Understanding Customers.
- Reactions to the challenges of digitalization.
Transfer coaching
After the classroom training, you will receive one hour of free, individual transfer coaching (by phone or online) with your trainer.
Lessons Learned
After the training, you will receive a summary of the exam-relevant content via your learning environment in preparation for your final exam.
Final examination
- You document your expertise with the e-test.
E-library
You will receive 2 e-learning courses Subject area artificial intelligence:
- Prompt engineering.
- Using artificial intelligence in everyday work.
and, for optimal knowledge transfer, e-learning: Negotiating skillfully.
All free of charge for 12 months.
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
You will develop the tools you need to be a successful Key Account Manager:
You develop a deep understanding of decision-making processes.
You know how decision makers and approach them in a targeted manner.
You deepen your customer analysis and identify new opportunities.
You sharpen the benefits of your solutions and increase your success in a targeted manner.
You understand your actions in the context of digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI).
Key account management is a central component of modern sales management. It describes the development of strategically important companies. Key account management is a way to adequately acquire customers for the challenges driven by Industry 4.0 and digitalization. Those who position themselves convincingly for the future will survive in the competitive environment. Learn what you need to meet your key accounts on equal terms—and how to develop your own key account management in a targeted manner with the right adjustments.
Experience the important technical and methodological skills of key account management in a practical and intensive way. The focus is on individual and group work, Personal consultation, discussion of practical and best-practice examples, exchange of experience, trainer input, experiential and action-oriented learning. You will receive direct feedback on questions to help you progress.
Key account managers, key account consultants, sales executives, product managers. Managers who want to actively support the KAM process and/or reflect on their existing concept. Interested sales representatives and sales managers.
After the training, participants take the written final examcertified Key Account Manager". To save you travel costs and time, you can take the e-exam on your PC at work or at home. The training content is tested in written form (time required: approx. 45 minutes). The e-exam can be taken as soon as the course has been completed. After successfully passing the final exam, you will receive the recognized certificate of the Haufe Akademie and the Mannheim School of Managementcertified Key Account Manager". This documents your in-depth knowledge as a basis for the further development of your professional career.
- Customized training courses
- Direct application in practice
- Efficient use of time and resources
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