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How Aramex’s Young SAM Program Provides Strategic Value and Impact

Strategic Account Management Association

Director Global Account Management, Aramex. Aramex services include international and domestic express delivery, freight forwarding, integrated logistics and supply chain management, and e-commerce solutions. Executive Sponsorship: Maps key customer stakeholders to executives and experts inside Aramex.

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The Future of SAM – Revisited

Strategic Account Management Association

From all this, we stress tested long-held views about strategic account management. Karen Passmore is Partner at the management consulting firm McKinsey and Company where she works on organizational design and go-to-market strategies with a focus on breaking down organizational silos. Adjust notion of stakeholder value.

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Turning lemons into lemonade: Five ways to reset on customer management fundamentals in a post-pandemic world

Strategic Account Management Association

At that time, customers told us they were less focused on price in negotiations and more focused on keeping the business running, with expectations including: Changes (increase or decrease) in supply chain deliveries Delays in payment schedules Changes in allocation of volume contracted. 2: Reset your shared success plan. – SAMA.

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People & Problems: The core of strategic account planning

Strategic Account Management Association

What I see from these dual worldviews is twofold: First, that the global pressures stemming from COVID and supply chain squeezes are throwing roadblocks in the path of us all. The post People & Problems: The core of strategic account planning appeared first on Strategic Account Management Association blog.

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“We’re all account managers now”

Mercuri International

There’s ‘traditional’ simple sales (think sales representative with a product portfolio) and complex sales (where a sale involves multiple components that make up the solution and/or numerous stakeholders). This is where the transition from sales representative to a more ‘account manager’ style role becomes relevant.

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10 Steps to Win Over Your Client’s New Procurement Team

Account Manager Tips

Who are their internal stakeholders? How do they want to manage supplier relationships? As a supplier, if you want to sell to procurement, you really need to understand things like the buying process, supplier management, supply chains, decision making and more. Is it critical, important or unimportant?

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UNDERSTANDING PHARMA CUSTOMER ECOSYSTEMS

Clarity Engagement Solutions

Providers, payers and suppliers, also a distribution supply chain and the patients themselves. What are the pressures and challenges that stakeholders face at the moment? What does it include? – The rapid pace of change and innovation. – Patient empowerment. – The effect of merger and acquisition activity.