Toolkits04 · Key-account (customer) plan
Item 04 · key-account (customer) plan · KSA and GCC consumer healthcare

Key-account (customer) plan: one chain, one year, one agreement

A 30-slide key-account plan for a pharmacy chain — where we stand, the plan, calendar and money, the agreement — with the calendar workbook and the negotiation ladder in the notes.

Slide 3 from the Key-account (customer) plan example (watermarked preview)
From the worked example: slide 3 of 30. Every preview carries a watermark; the files do not.

What you will have written when you finish

  1. 1Where we stand with the chain: share of the account, doors, velocity, the price ladder on shelf
  2. 2The share objective derived arithmetically from category growth and our plan
  3. 3The activity calendar priced from the rate card, month by month
  4. 4Investment by pillar and by quarter, against the sell-out it has to buy
  5. 5The account P&L: gross to net, activity cost, contribution
  6. 6The KPIs and the review cadence the chain agrees to
  7. 7The agreement page, with the negotiation ladder in the notes of the asks slide

7 slides from the example

Slides 1 · 3 · 7 · 11 · 14 · 17 · 20 of 30 · click to enlarge
Slide 1
Slide 3
Slide 7
Slide 11
Slide 14
Slide 17
Slide 20

2 sheets from the workbook

Account P&L · Calendar · click to enlarge
Sheet: Account P&L
Sheet: Calendar
The problem it solves

Chain negotiations are lost on the account P&L the chain has and the supplier does not. This plan builds it: rate card → activities → calendar → investment by pillar and quarter → account P&L last year, plan and plan at −10 % → KPIs by month.

Who it is for

Key-account manager, trade marketing manager, brand manager in consumer healthcare, writing for a Gulf market and presenting to a regional or global team. Also the distributor marketer who co-writes it.

Not for

Prescription brands with a medical-affairs plan, agencies pitching creative work, or anyone who needs a company's proprietary template.

Also useful with this item

Item 01 · $79
Brand plan
the brand strategies the account draws from
Companion · $29
KPI tracker and monthly-review one-pager
to follow the account month by month
Companion · $29
Competitor fact table and price ladder
for the price ladder on the chain's shelf

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Writing this in the next eight weeks?

Three working sessions on your own document: inputs and numbers, the draft, and a review against the questions management will ask.

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Every example is set in one fictional world: Meridian Consumer Health, its distributor Northern Gulf Distribution Co., the scalp-care brand Clarisel and its competitors Scalvia, Sebravel, Scalpex and Trichoderm. Nahdi, Al-Dawaa and United are real Saudi pharmacy chains used as market fixtures with invented figures, as are the marketplaces, the quick-commerce apps and the discounter named in item 08. You see every box filled, every chart populated and every number reconciled, without a real company's data.