Senior Key Account Manager at LifeBank

LifeBank is a Healthcare technology and logistics company that’s in the business of saving lives. We believe that no African should die from a shortage of essential medical products at the hospital level, and we are on a mission to solve this. LifeBank is currently working on the blood shortage problem in Nigeria by connecting hospitals to blood banks, and blood banks to donors. We do this by hosting blood drives and by delivering blood in less than 55 minutes, in a WHO and EU-recommended cold-chain, to Hospitals.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Key Account Manager

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time
Reports To: Director of Customer Health

Job Overview

• The Key Account Manager will play a pivotal role in driving long-term relationships and growth with our most important clients , including hospitals, government agencies, NGOs, and private healthcare providers.
• This individual will be responsible for managing and expanding LifeBank’s portfolio of high-value accounts, ensuring exceptional customer service, and maximizing the overall value of these accounts.

Responsibilities

• Sales and Business Development: Drive sales growth by identifying opportunities to expand LifeBank's services within existing accounts, and new accounts including cross-selling and upselling LifeBank’s offerings (Blood, oxygen, Quip and stock bank).
• Customer Health Relationship Management: Build, develop, and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with key hospital and healthcare provider accounts, as well as stakeholders in the government and non-governmental sectors.
• Serve as the main point of contact for key clients, providing exceptional customer service, anticipating needs, and delivering timely solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor and point of escalation for client issues, ensuring satisfaction and resolving concerns promptly.
• Customer Education and Product Knowledge: Educate clients on the full range of LifeBank’s services and new offerings, providing regular updates on innovations in the blood,oxygen and medical consumables supply chain, especially those that may benefit clients.
• Perform other tasks assigned

Requirements

• Education and Qualification: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Sales, Marketing, Healthcare Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 -5 years of experience in sales, account management, or business development, preferably in the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience managing large, strategic accounts in the B2B or healthcare sector.
• Strong understanding of the Nigerian healthcare system, including hospitals, government agencies, and NGO operations.

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to build trust and influence key decision-makers at all levels.
• Results-driven, with a proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets.
• Strong proficiency with CRM software (e.g., Salesforce, Zoho CRM), Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and other sales tools.
• Ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively with internal teams.
• Knowledge of blood and oxygen supply logistics, and healthcare product distribution is a significant advantage.

Personal Attributes:

• Customer-focused, with a passion for delivering exceptional service and adding value to client relationships.
• A proactive and self-motivated individual who is eager to learn and grow within the company.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to track complex sales processes and follow through on all client deliverables.
• A high degree of professionalism and integrity, representing LifeBank in a manner that upholds the company’s values.

About Team:

• We are a team driven by our values. Every day we strive to fulfil these values in everything we do. All LifeBankers must commit to these sets of values and this is the secret sauce of what makes working at LifeBank awesome. At LifeBank;
• You must care for our patients, our people (team members) and our partners. Caring for patients means focusing on impact and doing all we can to rescue people on their worst days.
• It is our duty to rescue the most vulnerable members of our community. We must rescue pregnant women who are bleeding, little kids who need oxygen, newborns who need vaccines, and many more critically ill people and we must do this at scale.
• We learn. We are never satisfied with the status quo. Our work is never finished. Every day, we are committed to our personal growth and by extension the growth of the business.
• Office politics bore us. We don't play favourites and your growth in the business is not at all dependent on who likes you and who doesn't. Your growth is entirely dependent on you
• At LifeBank, we are builders. We are a team committed to creating an agile distribution system to power healthcare across Africa. Join us and save the World!

Benefits
Accompanied by the fact that we provide services that help save lives, we also ensure that our employees are well taken care of. The following benefits are available for all LifeBank employees:

• Salary: N500,000 Monthly (Gross).
• Health Insurance
• Focused caring team members.
• Life Insurance
• Accelerated growth.
• Workman Compensation.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume to: [email protected] using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the mail.