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Account Manager - Wessex & Welsh Water

Lanes Group

The Role

Overview

Oversee and manage client relationships, set targets, and ensure satisfaction for water services.

Key Responsibilities

  • pricing
  • metrics
  • negotiations
  • client relations
  • market analysis
  • presentations

Tasks

-Follow up on complaints and queries on behalf of clients. -Pricing contracts to achieve company’s’ gross margin expectations. -On call payments to manage the reactive workload at evenings and weekends. -Creating and monitoring targets and metrics for the national accounts, suggesting improvements where appropriate. -Provide timely and effective solutions aligned to client needs. -Negotiating and closing agreements with large customers including agreeing reasonable and achievable SLA’s and KPI’s. -Meeting clients and account managers on a regular basis to ensure strong relationships. -Monitoring and identifying market trends, competitors and new sales leads. -Taking a leadership role in presentations and proposals for national accounts. -Senior representation for the company, working with crucial client and partners.

Requirements

  • relationship management
  • account management
  • sales
  • business processes
  • crm

What You Bring

-Experience in managing multi-faceted complex business relationships. -Experience in a regional or national account manager position. -A sales background with a demonstrated history of sales performance -Knowledge of managing end-to-end business processes -Knowledge of CRM systems

Benefits

-Company car/car allowance -Company bonus scheme. -Death in service -24 Days holiday plus Bank Holidays

The Company

About Lanes Group

-It grew through strategic acquisitions and expansion into new service areas. -It secured major contracts with Thames Water and Southern Water, handling citywide sewer maintenance. -Its work spans large‑scale infrastructure including railway drainage on Crossrail and UV trenchless sewer relining on UK motorways. -Today, it operates a national network of depots, utility hubs and specialist divisions like Lanes‑i, Sapphire and AQS.

Sector Specialisms

Drainage

Sewer

Septic Tank

Wastewater

Water Utilities

Gas Supply Networks

Rail Sector

Commercial

Domestic

Infrastructure

Utilities