Key Account Manager at Philips

Currently we have an opportunity for a dynamic Key Account Manager for the Personal Health division covering Domestic Appliances and Personal care products. This role is for French West Africa and will be based in Accra, Ghana.

As Key Account Manager you will be responsible for managing sales and marketing activities within Philips’ Personal Health channel (Key accounts and Traditional Trade), establishing a professional working relationship, building excitement for the Philips Brand, driving the implementation and execution of demand generation activities as well as Philips Partner Program deployment within their accounts, increasing sales effectiveness and skills of resellers.

You will be reporting to the Business Development Manager Personal Health.

In this role you are responsible for

• Growing Philips Personal Health's business within your accounts,
• Expanding partner business to advance Philips ’s mindshare and partner’s value-add,
• Contributing to the support essential for successfully pursuing and winning opportunities for the partner and Philips,
• Building personal communication skills and effectively leverage communication assets (web, telecomm) to motivate partner selling and alignment with Philips,
• Developing enduring partner business relationships based on competence and responsive partner support in line with Philips’s GBP,
• Maintaining solid partner business intelligence.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• A graduate degree/Masters level or equivalent is desired
• Fluent English and Frenchis a must have
• ≤5 years working experience ideally in consumer electronics or consumer FMCG
• Experience in West African francophone countries
• Work experience in an international environment, ideally gained within a matrix organisation,
• Strong communication and negotiation skills,
• Strong Account management skills.

Our Offer

At Philips, we are driven by our mission to improve the lives of 3 billion people per year by 2025, and every day we move closer to achieving our goal by creating cutting-edge solutions that lead to confident diagnosis, improved care, and increased quality of life for patients. Thanks to our employees who share our passion for improving lives, we are at the forefront of the Healthcare industry. We enable our employees to create a legacy in life through their work and support their development through people-centric learning, total rewards and personalized development planning programmes.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video.

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