An account manager is a sales professional who performs a variety of duties aimed at managing his employer's client relationships, as well as developing new business from existing clients. In most ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

Account managers and project managers are responsible for a section of the overall business of a company, but their roles are different. The account manager deals with one or more customer accounts on ...

In the creative industry (think marketing, advertising, branding, and PR agencies, among others), two key roles often shape the outcome of a project: the account manager and the project manager.