Customer Advisor (Key Account Management) in the Corporate Clients Switzerland & Special Industries Team (a) 80 - 100%
Berner Kantonalbank AG
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:29 August 2025
- Workload:80 – 100%
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Join BEKB as a Kundenberater:in Firmenkunden, where we inspire! Collaborate with a dynamic team and enjoy flexible work options.
Tasks
- Manage and develop a portfolio of medium to large corporate clients.
- Build long-term, trustworthy relationships with companies and stakeholders.
- Drive market engagement and actively acquire new clients.
Skills
- Several years of experience in corporate consulting and credit business.
- Strong service orientation and excellent communication skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with initiative and teamwork abilities.
Is this helpful?
We inspire sustainably – customers and team members alike. You too? Then you are the perfect fit for this exciting position as a Customer Advisor Corporate Clients, where you take responsible and committed care of your clients. Let your ideas grow with us, together we offer more than banking!
How you inspire
- As part of succession planning, you are responsible for managing and developing an existing client portfolio with medium and large SMEs and foundations from various industries (focus on healthcare and public-law entities)
- You maintain and build long-term, trust-based customer relationships with companies, key figures, and their networks
- You actively work the market and drive new customer acquisition
- You advise and support your clients with commitment and responsibility throughout their lifecycle and key events in close cooperation with the regional Key Client Teams and internal bank specialists
- You actively represent and advocate for BEKB's interests at events
What you bring
- You have several years of experience in comprehensive corporate consulting as well as solid knowledge in lending (operating and investment financing, structured financing, special financing such as succession or M&A transactions, complex real estate financing)
- You have a solid business and/or economics education and ideally further training with a focus on Banking & Finance
- You have an interest and increased understanding of the functioning and development of financial markets and recognize the investment needs of companies, other institutional investors, and their key figures
- Your high initiative and entrepreneurial thinking actively shape success
- You convince with a strong service orientation, a courteous and winning manner, pronounced teamwork skills, and very good communication and negotiation skills in German (additional French and English are an advantage)
We are committed to you!
- Support for your individual development needs, both in time and financially
- Flexible working arrangements (part-time, job sharing, home office, annual working hours)
- Between 25 – 30 vacation days per year
- Sustainable compensation: no individual bonuses, but profit sharing for all employees
- How we interact: informal culture - open – personal – team-oriented
Justyna Walloschek
HR Business Partner
Your BEKB
For pioneers, bridge builders, and future shapers: The BEKB Group has a lot to offer you as an employer – far more than banking. In the Bern/Solothurn region, we advise and support private and corporate clients with innovative financial services. The needs of our customers are always the focus of our daily work. With our IT subsidiary aity AG, we create the right technical conditions for this.
The well-being of our employees is close to our hearts. We promote young and experienced talents in their development, advocate for individual and flexible working arrangements, and pave the way for our employees to training and career opportunities . Our open and positive corporate culture is at the forefront. Trust, commitment, and sustainability are firmly anchored with us; diversity , collaboration, and humor are part of our DNA.