Executive Education

Strategic Key Account Management

Winning big clients is one thing; keeping them is another. This programme shows you how to build stronger partnerships, deepen trust, and turn key accounts into long-term growth engines for your business.
The Strategic Key Account Management Programme is designed for experienced sales professionals responsible for managing and growing their organisation’s most important accounts. It is ideal for Key Account Managers, Customer Relationship Managers, Sales Executives, and Business Development Managers. Participants typically work in business-to-business environments where strategic client relationships are critical to organisational success.
Hybrid Programme
Lagos
Programme Date
Jul 14, 2026 (3 days)

Programme Fee

₦850,000 (Excluding VAT)
Hybrid Programme
Lagos
Hybrid Programme
Lagos

Programme Date

Jul 14, 2026 (3 days)
Hybrid Programme
Lagos
Programme Fee
850,000

Programme Overview

Key Account Management (KAM) offers a structured approach for building and sustaining strong, profitable relationships with an organisation’s largest customers. This programme provides a practical conceptual framework to implement strategic KAM effectively, helping participants deepen engagement, improve decision-making, and maximise value from their most critical accounts.

Through interactive discussions and case studies, participants learn how to develop strategic perspectives on sales and customer relationships, recognise and overcome common challenges, optimise account team performance, and create actionable plans that enhance both customer satisfaction and business outcomes. The programme equips managers to become trusted advisors while positioning their organisations for long-term success.

Key Learning Outcomes
Increase depth and value within key accounts through strategic management techniques.
Develop a strategic perspective on client relationships and optimise account team performance.

Implement actionable plans that strengthen long-term relationships and position managers as trusted advisors.

Hybrid Programme
Programme Date
Jul 14, 2026 (3 days)
Programme Fee
₦850,000 (Excluding VAT)
Foundations of Key & Strategic Account Management
  • Introduction to Key Account Management fundamentals

  • Strategic accounts: A definition

  • Selecting and classifying strategic accounts

Designing & Implementing SAM Programmes
  • Developing and implementing a Strategic Account Management (SAM) Programme

  • Innovation and sustainability of Key Account Programmes

Strategic Account Planning & Opportunity Management
  • Strategic account plans

  • Sales opportunity management

Optimising Strategic Account Teams
  • Optimising your strategic account sales team

Relationship Development & Political Navigation
  • Relationship development and navigating politics with key officers

Leveraging Marketing & Technology for SAM
  • Leveraging marketing to support SAM initiatives

  • Applying technology in Strategic Account Management

Prof. Louis Ifeanyi Nzegwu is a Professor of Marketing at Lagos Business School, bringing over three decades of academic and industry experience. Before joining LBS, he spent more than 20 years at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville, where he served as Professor of Marketing and Executive Director of the International Business Resource Center. He previously taught at Alcorn State University and held visiting professorships at institutions in the United States and Rwanda.

He teaches a wide range of marketing courses, including Sales Management, Pricing, Marketing Management, Marketing Research, and Global Marketing. Prof. Nzegwu holds a Doctorate in Business Administration, an MBA, an M.Ed., and an MSc in Agricultural Economics. His research focuses on marketing strategy, product development, market entry, consumer behaviour, and sales enablement. He has served on several editorial and advisory boards and is an Emeritus Professor of Marketing in the United States as well as a fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria.

Prof. Tayo Otubanjo teaches Marketing across the full-time and executive MBA programmes at Lagos Business School and recently served as a Visiting Professor of Marketing at Yale School of Management. He completed his PhD in Marketing in the UK, specialising in corporate brand identity, and played a key role in establishing the first MSc in Corporate Brand Management.

He provides strategic marketing and brand advisory services to organisations such as First Bank, FCMB, AXA Mansard, Sujimoto, and Galaxy Backbone. His earlier work with CMCConnect BCW and CentrespreadGrey involved major brand strategy projects for institutions including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Emirates Airline, Skye Bank, Zenith Bank, UPS, SAP, MoneyGram, and Emzor Pharmaceuticals.

The Admission Process

Begin your path to professional and personal growth with our straightforward enrollment process.

1. Click on the Apply Now button.

2. Select the number of participants to enroll on the programme and then fill in your detials.

3. Request for an invoice or make an instant payment via our secured payment gateway.

4. Upon confirmation of payment, a programme manager will get in touch with you at least three days before the programme commences.

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