
Solution Account Manager – Manufacturing
Belden Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $100,000 - $170,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Ensuring access and dialogue early in the buying journey to enable involvement in problem verification and solution specification, establishing Belden as a trusted advisor with our customers
- Establishment of the Solution's value impact on business outcomes, credibly expressed using the Customer's terminology and KPIs.
- Use a consultative approach to translate customer priorities into compelling solution-based proposals, collaborating with our solution team to ensure customer demands are satisfied and Belden becomes a true partner.
- Effectively develop cross-company solution built from any or all the Belden brands.
- Demonstrate solid knowledge and understanding of the Smart Manufacturing Market and the selected target customers
- Maintain awareness of key players, technology and market trends, and competitor activity influencing the customer's buying journey and covering all bases through multiple concurrent channels such as Website, ABM, CIC, colleagues and Partners
- Cultivate effective working relationships with critical business functions to ensure agility, speedy issue resolution, proactive sharing of sales process workload, effective POCs, and coordination of activities
- Managing own activity for Performance, using Standard Work tools and process including SFDC, Strategic Selling, Account Plans, Funnel Management, QAP, and Aspire for Sales
- Identify sufficient opportunities, build and execute the selling strategy, move customers through the buying journey, forecast wins and hit target through professional funnel management
- Build a robust plan that defines what needs to be done to achieve quota The critical activities required defined with timelines to ensure timely completion
- Identify possibilities to grow revenue in existing customers.
- Exploit Cross-Selling opportunities to maximize customer satisfaction and share of wallet through deployment of robust Account Plans that are designed to foster expanded engagement
Requirements
- Bachelors degree with a track record of 5+ years in a professional sales role
- Experience in communications and networking projects would be advantageous
- Experience of working within a medium to large sized international organization
- Experience of successfully operating in a matrix environment
- Experience of working with cross functional teams including Engineering, Marketing, Product Development and Finance
- Experience of Lean tools would be advantageous
- Demonstrable knowledge of a variety of sales fundamentals including funnel management, account planning, proposition development, and negotiation
- Experience in a variant of a Value Selling process
- Working experience of Miller Heiman Strategic Selling methodology advantageous
Benefits
- health/dental/vision
- long term/short term disability
- life insurance
- HSA/FSA
- matching retirement plans
- paid vacation
- parental leave
- employee stock purchase plan
- paid leave for volunteer work in your community
- training opportunities
- professional talent management and succession planning
- corporate health well-being initiatives
- commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
funnel managementaccount planningproposition developmentnegotiationLean toolsValue Selling processMiller Heiman Strategic Selling methodology
Soft Skills
consultative approachcollaborationrelationship buildingagilityissue resolutionproactive sharingstrategic thinking