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Learn from the best: The 2020 SAMA Excellence Awards winners

Strategic Account Management Association

Most of all, they proved that getting strategic account management right unlocks huge benefits in terms of growth, profitability, customer satisfaction and attainment of strategic goals. Want to enter this year’s awards?

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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 is a leading global provider of comprehensive logistics and transportation solutions, headquartered in Dubai and listed on the Dubai Financial Market. Its mission is to handle defined strategic key accounts. By Shahaboddin Wahdatehagh, Sr. Tier 3: People Development.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

Understanding strategic account management is essential for the members of a COE who need to appreciate that it is a business model, not a sales model, and requires change management. The global COE can also help foster the creation of communities of practice to exchange best practices and scale them.

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The Marketing and Sales roles in this tight collaboration

Cosawi

Customer buying journey: The Marketing and Sales roles in this tight collaboration. In both Sales and Marketing, we work so hard on customer centricity, customer focus and customer knowledge. At a point of sale, you are engaging with customers at the big-box sports store, sharing the shelf with 30 other soccer balls.

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How to define a strong KAM Training Path

KAM With Passion

It provides you with a precise description of the skills and competencies required from a true Key Account Manager (not a plain entreprise customers sales rep). A well designed competencies reference framework allows to assess the competencies of each Key Account Manager, whatever their degree of experience.

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Account Based Marketing interview by Pfizer COE

Cosawi

We talk to Dominque Côté about the central role of marketing in Key Account Management (KAM). One of her focus areas is maximizing Account-Based Marketing (ABM) capabilities to enable KAM and make patient-centricity a reality. Along with the Key Account Manager, marketing is the co-orchestrator of KAM – they are intrinsically linked.

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Transformation through Agile Leadership

Cosawi

A colleague from the SAMA Board of Directors, Noel Capon, recently wrote an article in Harvard Business Review, “When CEOs Make Sales Calls,”¹ in which he describes the impact of top management’s involvement in the customer relationship. 1 Noel Capon, When CEOs Make Sales Calls, Harvard Business Review, March-April 2021. Dominique Co?te?