Account Manager

Account Manager
Location: Hybrid / Cardiff (5 days in the office initially)
Salary: £34,000 - £40,000 DoE + £8,000 commission
Contract Type: Full time, permanent
What We Can Offer You: 25 Days Annual Leave (Pro-Rata for Part-time and Fixed-Term Roles), Additional Holiday Purchase, Hybrid Working, Life Assurance, Vitality Private Healthcare, Subsidised Gym Memberships, Cycle to Work scheme, Discount Vouchers and Access to Wellbeing Resources
Why do we want you
Astutis, part of Wilmington Plc, is looking looking for an Account Manager who is passionate about building meaningful customer relationships and creating opportunities for growth. You'll be a confident communicator who enjoys engaging with customers, understanding their challenges, and identifying solutions that deliver real value. With a proactive and consultative approach, you'll be comfortable managing a portfolio of accounts while uncovering opportunities to expand our partnerships through cross-selling and up-selling activities.
You'll be motivated by achieving results, taking ownership of your pipeline, and developing strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels. We want someone who is naturally curious, commercially aware, and driven to exceed expectations. Equally important is your ability to collaborate with colleagues across sales, marketing, and operational teams to ensure customers receive an exceptional experience throughout their journey.
If you're organised, resilient, customer-focused, and excited by the opportunity to make a tangible impact on business growth, we'd love to hear from you.
Please note: To complete your application, you will be redirected to Wilmington plc’s career site.
At Wilmington plc, we celebrate individuality and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we shortlist all applicants who meet the essential role criteria and guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet these criteria. For reasonable adjustments or to apply under our interview guarantee scheme, please use the contact details provided once you have clicked “apply”!
Job purpose, tasks and responsibilities
As an Account Manager, you will be responsible for managing and growing revenue across a portfolio of approximately 150 existing customer accounts.
Through effective relationship management, consultative sales conversations, and strategic account development, you will identify opportunities to increase account value through cross-selling and up-selling activities.
Working closely with customers and internal stakeholders, you will build long-term partnerships, maximise customer engagement, and contribute to the achievement of business growth objectives.
Tasks & Responsibilities
• Deliver targeted annual sales revenue from an assigned account portfolio.
• Develop and strengthen relationships with existing customers and key stakeholders.
• Identify and pursue cross-sell and up-sell opportunities across alternative buyers, regions, and divisions.
• Follow up on incoming enquiries and referrals from assigned accounts.
• Conduct customer meetings, presentations, and commercial discussions.
• Produce compelling sales proposals and accurate quotations in line with agreed gross margin targets.
• Maintain accurate customer records, pipeline activity, and forecasting within Sage CRM.
• Act as the voice of the customer internally, working closely with delivery teams to ensure successful contract fulfilment.
• Develop a strong understanding of products, services, and market sectors to provide trusted advice to customers.
• Collaborate with Account Managers, Business Development Executives, and
• Marketing colleagues to maximise revenue opportunities.
• Adhere to company policies, procedures, and quality standards, supporting the maintenance of ISO 9001:2015 accreditation.
• Undertake any additional duties as requested by the Sales Director.
What's the Best Thing About This Role
The best thing about this role is the opportunity to grow and develop existing customer relationships while making a real impact on business success.
You'll manage a portfolio of established accounts, giving you the chance to build trusted partnerships, uncover new opportunities, and drive meaningful growth through consultative conversations.
With a mix of relationship management, strategic account development, and commercial responsibility, no two days are the same.
You'll have the autonomy to shape your approach, work closely with a supportive team, and see the direct results of your efforts as you help customers and the business succeed together.
What's the Most Challenging Thing About This Role
The biggest challenge in this role is balancing the management of a large portfolio of customer accounts while consistently identifying and converting new growth opportunities.
Success requires strong prioritisation, proactive relationship building, and the ability to engage multiple stakeholders across different regions, divisions, and buyer groups.
You'll need to maintain momentum across your pipeline, uncover opportunities that customers may not initially recognise, and manage competing priorities, all while delivering an excellent customer experience and achieving revenue targets.
For someone who enjoys building relationships, thinking commercially, and taking ownership of their success, it's a challenge that is both rewarding and motivating.
Essential and desirable capabilities
Essential Capabilities
• Confident conducting customer meetings, presentations and commercial discussions.
• Self motivated with a proactive and resilient approach to sales activity.
• Experience managing opportunities through a structured sales pipeline.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with SDRs, Marketing and wider commercial teams.
• Comfortable working towards activity and revenue KPIs.
• Strong organisational and CRM management skills.
• Commercially aware with a consultative sales approach.
Desirable Capabilities
• Experience in consultative selling in a related field (HSE, Training, Consulting, L&D)
• Experience selling training, consultancy or professional services.
• Knowledge of health, safety, environmental or compliance sectors.
Before you go....
About us
Astutis is a market leader in workplace health, safety, and environmental training, helping organisations create safer, healthier work environments. As part of Wilmington plc, we are committed to delivering high-quality courses and outstanding customer service.
Join us and do Work That Means Something
At Wilmington plc, we help global customers to do the right business in the right way - providing trusted data, insights, and education to navigate the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) landscape.
When you join us, you’ll not only make a real difference for our customers, you’ll also enjoy flexibility through hybrid working and benefit from a wide range of learning, career, and development opportunities.
Whether you're just starting out, returning to work after a break, or looking to take your next step, you’ll be doing work with meaning.
Join us and make a real difference. Click on “APPLY” today