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Teilnehmende Key Account Management

Intensive Seminar Excellence in Key Account Management

Identify potential and increase the profit of existing key accounts

Stay one step ahead of the competition: in this key account management course from the University of St.Gallen, you’ll lay the foundations for a systematic KAM approach in your company and equip yourself with sound, proven methods and tools to help you manage your strategic customers.

With the support of top-class experts, you’ll complete three modules to help you determine the potential of existing key accounts and draw up a sustainable strategy to optimize your key account management.

Upon completing the Key Account Management course, you will receive a certificate of participation from the University of St.Gallen. In addition, you can complete the seminar as a module in the Certified of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Sales Management at the University of St.Gallen.

We aim to enable you to take content from this key account manager training and apply it directly in your company. Over a total of three modules of three days each, you will learn the fundamentals and gain the tools needed for successful, modern key account management. The format also allows you to combine your studies with your professional and private commitments.

Overview

Facts

Graduation: Seminar Certificate
Program Language: German
Start date: 10 September 2024
Duration: 9 days (3 modules each 3 days)
Location: Weiterbildungzentrum Holzweid, St. Gallen
Investment: CHF 9500
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Course Goals

The seminar will progress step by step to introduce the renowned St.Gallen Key Account Management Concept. You will learn the fundamentals of successful key account management and the measures companies must put in place to secure a lasting competitive advantage. The following course content awaits you:

  • Fundamentals and tools for successful, modern key account management
  • Methods for systematic management of individual key clients
  • Anchoring and digitalizing key account management in companies
  • Competencies and skills of a key account manager
  • Individual development within a key account management team
Module 1: Systematic Key Account Analysis and Processing
10 – 12 September 2024
Weiterbildungzentrum Holzweid, St. Gallen
Module 2: Portfolio Orientation, Leadership and Personal Competence in KAM
15 – 17 October 2024
Weiterbildungzentrum Holzweid, St. Gallen
Module 3: External Effects and Internal Implementation in KAM
03 – 05 December 2024
Weiterbildungzentrum Holzweid, St. Gallen

Details

  • Practically oriented key account management course
  • Developed personal and professional skills will help you to advance within your organization
  • Following completion of the Excellence in Key Account Management seminar, the University of St.Gallen offers a platform to supplement your network

Benefits for your company:

  • Concepts, methods and tools for professional management of strategically important customers ensure long-term profitability and growth in companies
  • Develop specific solutions for current challenges in your company
  • Supervision and specialist support in producing a key account management plan for your company

The Excellence in Key Account Management seminar addresses key account managers, managing directors, and sales and marketing managers responsible for one or more key accounts. This executive education course is suitable for all professionals responsible for key customers and perceive systematic key account management as a profitable approach to differentiation in competition.

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The Course Excellence in Key Account Management is a part-time program at the Executive Campus of the University of St.Gallen. Generally, the seminar takes place from Tuesday (from 9:00 a.m.) to Thursday (5:00 p.m.). On the other days, the program starts at 08:30 and ends at 18:30. In this way, we enable our participants to coordinate their education and professional tasks optimally.

To integrate the expectations of all participants, we discuss their needs in-depth with all participants beforehand and can thus formulate individual learning objectives for each participant.

We use various methods in the seminar phase to ensure a holistic learning experience, such as academic and practical presentations, case studies, behavioral training, group exercises, and interactive plenary discussions. Our social events provide space for exchange and networking. Once a week, we organize a cultural or sporting event, which we round off with a joint dinner.

Between the study blocks, you will reflect on the material covered and transfer what you have learned to your own company. In the Excellence in Key Account Management seminar, you will complete two learning transfers. Time spent on these transfer tasks varies greatly and averages approximately 8 to 10 hours between each module. Our goal is for you to achieve and implement concrete results for your own company.

After completing all seminar days and the learning transfers, you will receive your seminar and performance certificate from the University of St.Gallen.


You can also extend the intensive seminar Excellence in Key Account Management later to a certificate CAS Sales Management. For the compilation of your individual curriculum feel free to contact us.

Admission is at the discretion of the head of studies. We will pay attention to your professional and educational background. An academic university or technical college degree is not required. To ensure that relevant topics can be addressed in sufficient depth and explored in the group, however, participants should have practical experience in marketing or sales and ideally have demonstrated this in a managerial role.

Since our intensive courses are often booked up early, we recommend that you contact the seminar management as soon as possible. A reservation is an ideal way to secure a place without obligation and make organizational arrangements in the meantime.

The total participation fee amounts to CHF 8995 (as of 1.1.2024: CHF 9500) for 9 study days, including learning transfer. All learning materials, books, lunch and refreshments during breaks are covered. Not included are the costs for arrival and departure, accommodation, dinner and joint evening events.

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  • The HSG convinces on all levels! The entire teaching, organization, implementation and exchange between course participants, lecturers and organizers were at all times professional, practice-oriented, communicative and absolutely recommendable. My now much deeper understanding of key account management enables me to take the dialogue on this subject to a higher qualitative level and to derive appropriate decisions from it.
    René Reuter
    Business Intelligence Manager, CFP Brands Süßwarenhandels GmbH & Co. KG
  • My goal of optimizing the structures of KAM in my own company was achieved to my complete satisfaction in Excellence in KAM. I would particularly like to emphasize the exchange of experience with other industries and the openness of the Group. Through the many practical examples, the active participation during the modules and the transfer work between the modules, I have successively implemented concrete measures in the team and in the company.
    Sandra Lehmbruck
    Member of Company Managment and Manager Sales & KAM, BFS health finance GmbH
  • The seminar motivated me to develop key customers with a structured approach - my expectations were more than fulfilled! I particularly liked the practical approach and the concise insights into the most important levers. The breadth of industries in the group of participants, the very good organisation and the evidence-based insights contributed positively to the seminar experience.
    Walter Sutter
    District Sales Manager, Medtronic (Switzerland) AG
  • The group and individual work on current topics as well as the elaboration of the transfer work between the modules help to understand the theory and to put it into practice. I was also impressed by the technical and methodological competence of the lecturers. The sometimes controversial discussions with the participants and lecturers from all areas of business make the course lively and encourage lateral thinking in one's own work. Conclusion: highly recommended!
    Ives Mühlemann
    Global Account Director, Bossard Inc.
  • My goal of optimising the KAM structures in my own company was fulfilled to my complete satisfaction in the Excellence in KAM. I would particularly like to emphasise the exchange of experience with other sectors and the openness of the group. Through the many practical examples, the active participation during the modules as well as the transfer work between the modules, I successively implemented concrete measures in the team and in the company.
    Jonas Bialk
  • Our company has had a key account management system for some time, but it is not very structured and there is no systematic way of dealing with key accounts. This was the main motivation for me to enroll in the Excellence in Key Account Management. Due to the input from the seminar at the HSG, we are now in a position to organize a professional key account management and to approach this procedure with a clear structure and logic.
    Patrick Zwahlen
    Director HR Services, Trianon SA
  • I would like to emphasize the St. Gallen Key Account Management concept. The lecturers at the HSG have been dealing with this for several decades and have also set accents in the professional world with it. The balance between practice and theory was also excellent, as was the consolidation of what was learned in the workshops and in the transfer work. The seminar acts like a turbo, like a booster. These three months at the HSG were extremely important and have advanced me in my field of activity and sharpened my focus. I am now even more focused on the tasks I have to master.
    Matthias Eifert
    Key Account Manager, Serumwerk Bernburg Tiergesundheit GmbH
  • My goal of optimizing the structures of KAM in my own company was met to my complete satisfaction in Excellence in KAM. I would particularly like to emphasize the exchange of experience with other industries and the openness of the group. Through the many practical examples, the active participation during the modules as well as the transfer work between the modules, I have successively implemented concrete measures in the team and in the company.
    Sandra Lehmbruck
    Member of GL and Head of Sales and KAM, BFS health finance GmbH
  • My expectations of the Excellence in KAM intensive seminar were exceeded! I particularly liked the high level of practical relevance and the professional competence of the lecturers. The exchange with seminar participants from other industries and the group work were further highlights for me. The transfer work between the modules and the KAM Plan ensure that what I have learned can be put into practice. I was able to identify potential improvements for my work and will implement these step by step.
    Marcus Henke
    Senior Sales Executive, OpenText
  • The very good reputation of the HSG and the well-known St.Gallen KAM concept made me very curious about the Excellence in Key Account Management seminar. The seminar confirmed to me that we are already doing many things right in our many years of GKAM experience. Especially in the implementation of global sales teams and the completion of the KAM plan, the seminar gave me the necessary input. We have improved the account plan in the company and are now implementing it globally. The structured work with the global sales teams will bring us significant added value in our collaboration.
    Ralf Müller
    Head of Global Key Account Management. ARBURG GmbH + Co KG
  • We in the KAM team have developed many of the concepts ourselves over the last few years. A validation with the professors of the HSG was an important motivating element for me and our department to participate. The well-known St. Gallen mix of academic input and the joint solution of case studies with fellow students helped me to advance in the subject. I brought the know-how I gained back to the team in various workshops and initiated further development.
    Domenic Seifert
    Key Account Manager, Die Mobiliar

Lecturers

Porträt Dennis Herhausen
Prof. Dr.
Dennis Herhausen
Private lecturer at the University of St.Gallen
Porträt Dirk Zupancic
Prof. Dr.
Dirk Zupancic
Managing Director and Founder at DZP Prof. Dr. Dirk Zupancic Projects GmbH
Porträt Michael Weibel
Dr.
Michael Weibel
Lecturer in Marketing at the University of St.Gallen and Managing Director at Center for Industrial Marketing St. Gallen, AG
Porträt Roman Boutellier
Prof. Dr.
Roman Boutellier
Chairman of Appenzeller Kantonalbank, Professor emeritus at ETH Zurich and University of St.Gallen, former CEO of SIG Holding AG
Porträt Björn Ivens
Prof. Dr.
Björn Ivens
Holder of the Chair of Sales and Marketing at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Spokesperson of the Graduate School
Porträt Philine Werner-Betz
Dr.
Philine Betz-Werner
Owner and trainer at Performanice GmbH and lecturer at the University of St.Gallen
Porträt Joost Roggenberg
Joost Roggenberg
Selbstständiger Trainer und Inhaber bei Joost Roggenberg
Porträt Markus Lemme
Markus Lemme
Managing Director and Owner at Factor4
Porträt Christel Marchiando
Christel Marchiando
Head of Key Account Management Europe at Jansen AG
Porträt John Charles
John Charles
Head of Sales at Schweizerische Post
Porträt Mischa Hollenstein
Mischa Hollenstein
Head of Sales at Haufe Group
Porträt Engelbert Schrapp
Engelbert Schrapp
Principal Corporate Account Manager at Siemens Energy
Porträt Michael Dobler
Michael Dobler
Senior Vice President Global Account Management at Schindler Group
Porträt Alexander Losbichler
Alexander Losbichler
Digital Advisor & Vertical Industry Lead at Microsoft
  • Porträt Dennis Herhausen
    Prof. Dr.
    Dennis Herhausen
    Private lecturer at the University of St.Gallen
  • Porträt Dirk Zupancic
    Prof. Dr.
    Dirk Zupancic
    Managing Director and Founder at DZP Prof. Dr. Dirk Zupancic Projects GmbH
  • Porträt Michael Weibel
    Dr.
    Michael Weibel
    Lecturer in Marketing at the University of St.Gallen and Managing Director at Center for Industrial Marketing St. Gallen, AG
  • Porträt Roman Boutellier
    Prof. Dr.
    Roman Boutellier
    Chairman of Appenzeller Kantonalbank, Professor emeritus at ETH Zurich and University of St.Gallen, former CEO of SIG Holding AG
  • Porträt Björn Ivens
    Prof. Dr.
    Björn Ivens
    Holder of the Chair of Sales and Marketing at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Spokesperson of the Graduate School
  • Porträt Philine Werner-Betz
    Dr.
    Philine Betz-Werner
    Owner and trainer at Performanice GmbH and lecturer at the University of St.Gallen
  • Porträt Joost Roggenberg
    Joost Roggenberg
    Selbstständiger Trainer und Inhaber bei Joost Roggenberg
  • Porträt Markus Lemme
    Markus Lemme
    Managing Director and Owner at Factor4
  • Porträt Christel Marchiando
    Christel Marchiando
    Head of Key Account Management Europe at Jansen AG
  • Porträt John Charles
    John Charles
    Head of Sales at Schweizerische Post
  • Porträt Mischa Hollenstein
    Mischa Hollenstein
    Head of Sales at Haufe Group
  • Porträt Engelbert Schrapp
    Engelbert Schrapp
    Principal Corporate Account Manager at Siemens Energy
  • Porträt Michael Dobler
    Michael Dobler
    Senior Vice President Global Account Management at Schindler Group
  • Porträt Alexander Losbichler
    Alexander Losbichler
    Digital Advisor & Vertical Industry Lead at Microsoft

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