Account Manager: Financial Services - Ackermans

This exciting and challenging opportunity will allow the successful candidate to contribute significantly to enabling the business to achieve its long-term strategic objectives and profitability indicators.

Key Responsibilities    

• Create and maintain supplier relationships.
• Grow and improve product offering to customers.
• Manage end to end value chain of products internally.
• Manage commercials of products.

Manage projects to:

• Ensure all SOPs are relevant and up to date for your products.
• Provide insightful reporting and deliver data driven proposals.
• Manage communication, implementation and execution of campaigns and projects.

Qualifications    

Essential:

• A Grade 12 Certificate/Matric

Preferred:

• A relevant Business/Commercial Degree or Diploma.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience    

We are looking for an individual who: 

• An excellent comprehension of the Commercial Customer behaviour and principles.
• An understanding of value retailing.
• A practical grasp of the South African market would be advantageous. 

Skills required.

• Strong Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook capabilities
• Understanding of how open and closed loop transactional accounts work
• Experience in a payments / Financial services environment
• Product management
• Skilled negotiator
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Numerical aptitude
• Analytical skills
• Business analysis

The ability to:

• to work well under pressure and under tight deadlines.
• Prioritizes relevant information into an actionable plan.
• to develop, monitor and maintain various processes and procedures simultaneously.
• drive execution, foster innovation, focus on delivery, collaborate with others and to find solutions.

Experience:

Essential:

• Minimum 3 - 5 years key account management experience in a retail/commercial and/or financial services environment.

Preferred:

• Experience in dealing with financial institutions and regulation; project management skills; solid understanding of IT systems and new product development.
• Experience in Value Added services products and credit would be beneficial.