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Key Account Manager

TK Elevator UK LtdNottingham, England, United Kingdom

Who we are

We are moved by what moves people, by what moves the world and in our ever-growing cities. Through honesty, transparency, and a commitment to colleagues and clients, they foster a culture of entrepreneurship, passion, and responsibility. With unique engineering expertise, we provide comprehensive support for urban mobility, ensuring safety and efficiency in vertical transportation throughout the lifecycle.

What we expect

We are looking for an experienced Key Account Manager to join our nationwide Key Accounts department, reporting to the Head of Key Accounts. In this role you will be responsible managing some of the organisations largest and/or strategically important customer contracts, maximizing sales and growth opportunities, ensuring customer satisfaction and minimizing outstanding debt.

This is a remote role with regular travel to visit clients.

As a Key Account Manager, your day-to-day will include:

  • Act as a dedicated point of contact for National Account clients, face to face and via email and telephone, and participate in meetings on a national level.
  • Serve as the customer’s voice internally, ensuring their requirements are understood and prioritised. Develop internal relationships to ensure clients’ SLAs and KPIs are consistently met, balancing these with the wider commercial and operational priorities.
  • Develop a thorough understanding of contract terms, scope, and obligations, ensuring these are implemented effectively in day-to-day operations to meet compliance, service, and commercial objectives.
  • Oversee KPI management to ensure operational delivery consistently meets and exceeds agreed target SLAs, driving continuous improvement and service excellence.
  • Asset lifecycle management to advise future customer needs and provide sales colleagues with future lead opportunities.
  • Engage in the sales order process, chase up quotations, and convert them into orders.
  • Assist with debt management and billing activities for the customer account, supporting timely invoicing and payment collection.
  • Manage contract profitability by monitoring financial performance, identifying and pursuing chargeable opportunities outside of standard contract scope, and ensuring these are captured, costed, and invoiced effectively.
  • Provide timely and accurate analysis of budgets, schedules, business trends, financial reports, and other business metrics.
  • Provide strategic oversight of the account to maximise sales revenue and profitability, driving long-term growth, client retention, and sustainable business success.
  • Promote TKE as an organisation and collaborate with other areas of the business.
  • Produce customer reports and attend client meetings at regular intervals.

Who we are looking for

  • Proven experience managing large, complex customer contracts.
  • Experience in negotiating and meeting clients requirements
  • Sound financial and business knowledge
  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to manage and influence internal colleagues and stakeholders
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Highly motivated, reliable and hardworking
  • Excellent time management skills, highly organised, approachable and flexible
  • Ability to manage many tasks and prioritise appropriately
  • Strong organisational and people skills
  • Comfortable building rapport and relationships with the client and internal stakeholders
  • Consistently works to deadlines

What we offer

  • Competitive salary paid on a monthly basis
  • Company car or car allowance
  • 34 days holiday, inclusive of bank holidays
  • Attractive company pension scheme
  • Health cash plan provided, allows you to claim towards health costs. For example, dental, optical, physiotherapy, chiropody and more.
  • Life Assurance Scheme - 4x annual salary
  • Free access to premium health and wellbeing apps
  • Subsidised gym membership
  • Industry-leading enhanced maternity and paternity provision
  • Multiple salary sacrifice benefits including Electric Cars and Cycle2Work
  • Long Service award scheme, with holiday benefits
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Refer a friend scheme

Additional information

As an equal-opportunity employer, TK Elevator values diversity. TK Elevator welcomes applicants from all individuals and candidates will be equally assessed and selected based on objective criteria.

Job details

Posting date:2025/08/13
Experience level:Experienced professionals
Contract limitation:Permanent, Full Time
Work Modality:Remote
Job family:Sales, Marketing and Communication
Industry:Engineering & urban mobility
Job number:UK_IRL_TKE00062

Application deadline: as long as the job is listed on our career page, we are looking for suitable candidates (all genders welcome). We are looking forward to receiving your application.

Unsolicited Submissions from Recruitment Agencies and Third Parties

TK Elevator does not accept candidate submissions, applications, or profiles from recruitment agencies, search firms, or other third parties unless a written agreement has been executed in advance by an authorized representative of TK Elevator.

Benefits

Health and Safety

Highest standards and a wide range of health promotion and healthcare activities.

Highest standards and a wide range of health promotion and healthcare activities.

Pension

We have various financial models to give you individual support.

We have various financial models to give you individual support.

Collaboration

Collegiality is of huge importance – we treat everyone with respect and appreciation.

Collegiality is of huge importance – we treat everyone with respect and appreciation.

Development

Training and education programs to help you develop professionally and personally.

Training and education programs to help you develop professionally and personally.

Compensation and benefits

Fair working conditions and competitive pay are an important basis for us.

Fair working conditions and competitive pay are an important basis for us.

Diversity

We promote an open and tolerant work culture.

We promote an open and tolerant work culture.

Work Life Balance

We guarantee regular working hours to support work-life balance.

We guarantee regular working hours to support work-life balance.

Creative leeway

We offer a work environment in which you can try out new solutions in a no blame culture.

We offer a work environment in which you can try out new solutions in a no blame culture.

Vacation and paid time off

Paid vacation, sick leave and personal days.

Paid vacation, sick leave and personal days.

Sustainability

We act with responsibility and environmental awareness.

We act with responsibility and environmental awareness.

Onboarding

Individual and personal support to help you get started in your new job.

Individual and personal support to help you get started in your new job.

Who we are

With customers in over 100 countries served by more than 50,000 employees, TK Elevator achieved sales of around €9.3 billion in fiscal year 2022/2023. We ensure high levels of customer service globally from our extensive network of about 1,000 locations. Over the past several decades, TK Elevator has established itself as one of the world’s leading elevator companies and became independent after separation from the thyssenkrupp group in August 2020. The company’s most important business line is the service business proudly provided by around 25,000 service technicians. The product portfolio ranges from standardized elevators for low-rise residential buildings to highly customized solutions for skyscrapers. In addition, it covers escalators, moving walks, passenger boarding bridges and stair and platform lifts. Integrated cloud-based solutions, such as the MAX platform, are delivering enhanced services. With these digital offerings, there are no longer any limits to urban mobility. TKE – move beyond.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At TK Elevator, we understand, respect and appreciate that everyone is different. We value everyone as an individual. We believe that when our employees bring their authentic selves to work, and we recognize them as such, we strive to nurture a culture characterized by equal opportunities, mutual trust and respect. At TK Elevator, we aim to embrace diversity and welcome everyone -no matter the ethnicity, nationality, gender or gender expression, age, social background, religion or world belief, sexual orientation, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

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