* Key Account Manager (Telco\Digital Infrastructure)
* Perm
* Theale (3 days per week onsite)
* You must be eligible to work in the UK without the need for Sponsorship
The Role
The Key Account Manager leads the strategic, commercial, and operational success of major telco customers. The role exists to drive profitable growth, strengthen long‑term customer partnerships, and ensure outstanding delivery performance. It is accountable for full customer lifecycle ownership, from strategy and commercial planning to execution and satisfaction outcomes.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
You will act as the senior point of contact for one or more large, strategic customers, building strong relationships with C-level and senior stakeholders. You’ll lead the creation and execution of multi-year account strategies, oversee commercial negotiations, and manage full P&L performance.
Working across Sales, Commercial, Finance, Delivery, Operations, Technology and Legal, you’ll coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure integrated solutions, strong governance, and service excellence.
This is a highly visible role, interacting regularly with executive customer stakeholders, internal senior leadership, and operational delivery teams — while also contributing insight and leadership into the wider commercial strategy.
Delivery & Performance
You will be accountable for delivering sustained, profitable growth across your account portfolio, including:
* Revenue growth and margin optimisation
* Cost control and accurate financial forecasting
* Contractual performance and governance across the full lifecycle
* High customer satisfaction and delivery reliability
You’ll independently lead complex, high-value negotiations including contract formation, renewals, variations, remediation and change control. You will identify and realise upsell, cross-sell and solution expansion opportunities, converting customer demand into long-term commercial value.
You will also lead the resolution of complex commercial and operational escalations, applying sound judgement to protect customer relationships, delivery outcomes, and commercial position.
Success will be measured through revenue and margin performance, forecast accuracy, contractual compliance, delivery reliability, customer satisfaction, and the depth and resilience of senior customer relationships.
Role Expertise
This role requires extensive experience leading large, complex strategic accounts, ideally within telecoms, digital infrastructure, utilities, or similarly regulated and asset-intensive environments.
You will bring:
* Demonstrable experience with material P&L ownership
* Strong commercial acumen, financial literacy and negotiation expertise
* Credibility and confidence operating with C-suite stakeholders
* The ability to deliver enterprise-scale outcomes through influence, not authority
* Strong strategic planning capability and operational understanding
* The ability to translate strategy into executable delivery and commercial plans
* Sound judgement and the ability to operate autonomously in complex environments
* Proven track record of leading strategic customer relationships in telecoms, digital infrastructure or similar complex industries
* Experience managing large accounts with full P&L responsibility
* Strong experience in commercial strategy, contract negotiation and customer success management
* Executive-level stakeholder engagement and communication skills
* Ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive collaborative outcomes
* Strong skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and MS Project
* Degree (or equivalent relevant experience)