Key Account Manager

**Role: Key Account Manager**

**Office: Lucerne / Zurich, Switzerland**

At Hult EF Corporate Education (Hult EF), we believe in the power of people - **to inspire, innovate, and positively impact their teams, organizations, and societies.**

We are learning experts specialized in delivering **immersive programs focused on the most critical global business skills**. Since we started, we’ve partnered with over 2500 companies, equipping them with the skills they need now and in the future.

Our Team Switzerland is looking for an outstanding **Key Account Manager** to work with executives at some of the largest companies in the market, helping them to progress their employees’ communication skills, and achieve their strategic objectives through managerial and executive training.

**Key responsibilities**
- Map and identify new business opportunities in Switzerland, targeting mainly Fortune 1000 companies.
- This is a 100% sales hunter position You will not be assigned a customer portfolio, but you will have a well-designed database of high potential prospect companies
- Design and implement a strategy to approach your target list - high creativity and analytical ability will have to be put into place
- Work towards clear deliverables in terms of activity level and new business closed (2-3 deals in the first 6 months).
- Sell the whole range of solutions, tailoring the proposal to the customers’ needs.
- ‘Conducting your orchestra’; you will be proactive in collaborating with internal stakeholders to help you drive the sales process forward through long timeframes and through high levels of complexity.
- Become quickly recognized by your customers as a trusted advisor and a consultant that can help them reach their business goals through strategic investments in English language learning programs.
- Be recognized and celebrated by our global organization for delivering your commitments and exceed expectations in terms of sales.
- Keep developing yourself as an excellent sales professional, thanks to the Learning and Development initiatives EF.

**The skills & experience we look for**
- At least 2 years’ experience managing complex consultative end-to-end B2B sales processes, ideally with HR stakeholders and/or in education.
- A love of selling high quality solutions that deliver real business impact for clients
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- Ownership, both of your successes and any failures
- International experience, having studied or worked abroad
- Passion for learning, both for yourself and, on a bigger scale, for organizations
- Fluent in English, German and/or French. Italian would be a bonus.
- Knowledge of Salesforce is a plus
- MBA preferred

**To thrive at EF, you will**:

- Dream big and have ambition
- Be proactive, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and ideas to put forward
- Be action oriented, someone who picks up the phone no matter how senior
- Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with high activity levels

**What we offer**
- Regular opportunities for personal and professional development within an organisation that is growing rapidly
- A truly multinational environment with talented and inspirational colleagues
- Competitive compensation scheme
- 25 days paid holiday each year
- Flexibility to work from home three days a week
- Opportunity to join annual global sales conference. Past locations have included Boston, Abu Dhabi and Dubrovnik

**About us**

Hult EF combine the strength of Hult International Business School and EF Education First to provide companies all over the world with practical, tailored learning focused on today’s most critical business competencies.

We remove barriers to international collaboration through language training; upskill employees in core business competencies through faculty-led programs; and build leadership capabilities through executive education and coaching.

With campuses and offices in over 50 countries, including the beautiful Ashridge House outside London, we offer a truly global and collaborative environment.

Whoever you are, whatever you are passionate about—we welcome you and want you to bring that to work every day. EF is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to inclusion and belonging across race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, disability, parental status, identity, experience, and everything else that makes you unique.