Key Account Manager

The Hybrid Key Account Manager is responsible for driving newlogo acquisition while also managing and growing a defined portfolio of key accounts. This role combines outbound newbusiness development with longterm account ownership delivering sustainable revenue growth through a balanced focus on acquisition expansion renewal and churn reduction.

The role engages senior stakeholders across procurement supply chain category management cost engineering sustainability and operations supporting customers as they navigate rawmaterial cost volatility supplychain risk regulatory pressure and sustainability commitments. Success requires strong commercial judgement disciplined pipeline management consultative selling skills and the ability to translate complex market challenges into compelling Fastmarkets solutions.

Fastmarkets values how we grow as much as how much we grow. The successful candidate will demonstrate a proactive customercentric approach strong internal collaboration and the ability to lead valuebased conversations with insight and credibility across both new and existing customers.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

New Business & Market Development

• Own the full endtoend newbusiness sales cycle from prospecting and discovery through to close.
• Build and convert a highquality pipeline aligned to defined newbusiness ARR targets.
• Execute disciplined outbound strategies across priority sectors and accounts.
• Engage senior stakeholders including Heads of Procurement Supply Chain Leaders Category Managers Sustainability and Cost Engineering leaders.
• Qualify and progress inbound enquiries using a structured consultative discovery approach.

Key Account Management & Growth

• Manage and grow a defined book of key accounts balancing renewal retention crosssell and upsell opportunities.
• Create and execute account plans aligned to customer priorities exposure to underlying markets and growth potential.
• Drive sustainable organic growth while actively managing churn risk.
• Lead renewal discussions value reviews and commercial negotiations with clarity and structure.

Sales Excellence & Forecasting

• Run a repeatable valueled sales process grounded in customer outcomes and market drivers.
• Maintain high standards of CRM hygiene forecasting accuracy and pipeline discipline in Salesforce.
• Ensure all opportunities are correctly qualified staged and progressed in line with internal methodology.

CrossFunctional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Editorial Product Pricing Marketing and subjectmatter experts to deliver tailored solutions demos and proposals.
• Translate complex market intelligence into clear commercially relevant narratives for customers.
• Contribute insights from the field to inform product development and gotomarket strategy.

Personal Development & Contribution

• Take ownership of continuous learning across Fastmarkets products customer markets and industry trends.
• Actively contribute to team performance sharing best practice and supporting a highperformance sales culture.

Qualifications :

We recruit talented dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences all united by a belief in our mission to provide the worlds leading and most trusted price reporting events and intelligence service for the markets we serve. Were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded curious resilient solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality then read on.

KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for a highly motivated commercially driven individual with a strong customer mindset and the ability to operate confidently across both newbusiness acquisition and account management.

Essential

• Proven experience in B2B sales managing and growing complex accounts while also delivering newlogo wins.
• Strong consultative valueled selling capability with senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing a meaningful book of business and delivering accurate forecasting.
• Excellent pipeline management outbound discipline and CRM usage.
• Ability to understand and articulate customer value in complex data or SaaSled solutions.

Preferred

• Experience selling market intelligence data SaaS or subscriptionbased solutions.
• Familiarity with commoditieslinked industrial energytransition or supplychainexposed customer environments.
• Understanding of themes such as supplychain risk rawmaterial volatility regulatory pressure and sustainability.

If youre excited about the role but your experience skills or qualifications dont perfectly align we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information :

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. Its this mix of brilliant personalities experiences and insights that gives us that warm open and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are there are six things we all have in common and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and theyre embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect perspectives and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

Youve read a little about us now its over to you!

If you like what youve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person its time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: its used to determine whether or not youll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions well ask you on the day.

Its vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why youre great.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time