
Strategic Account Sales Representative
Würth Industry USA
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- The Strategic Account Sales Representative is responsible for building and maintaining positive relationships with various customer contacts by promoting solutions and services while growing sales and profitability.
- This position serves as the key point of contact between the customer and multiple internal department contacts within the organization.
- Additionally, ensuring that all obligations within a customer contract on met on time by both parties.
- Lead and execute quarterly business reviews, driving strategic discussions and action plans for sustained growth.
- Develop and implement forward-thinking sales strategies to expand, protect, and diversify key customer relationships.
- Craft and execute a strategic customer growth roadmap, focusing on securing new business awards and deepening customer dependencies.
- Proactively identify and capitalize on new sales opportunities, driving them to successful closure with a results-driven approach.
- Engage key customer contacts to initiate contract renewal process and ensure seamless and timely renewals.
- Proactively monitor competitive activity in each account and ensure appropriate response strategies are formulated and communicated.
- Take ownership of issue resolution, and ensuring customers receive high quality customer service.
- Optimize customer profitability by collaborating with Sales Operations and other departments to implement pricing strategies, approve substitutes, and secure necessary increases.
- Maintain accurate information for sales pipeline, prospects, customer information and communication logs within the CRM system.
- Manage key contractual obligations, including but not limited to excess & obsolete inventory, value added/value engineered, cost savings documentation, pricing/material index reviews, inventory reductions, and expense minimization.
- Cultivate and strengthen relationships with mid-level client stakeholders while strategically engaging senior executives to expand influence and business opportunities.
- Support seamless customer implementations and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance long-term customer success.
Requirements
- B.S. Degree in Business, Marketing, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field, and/or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 2 years of industrial sales experience, with related products and/or related industry.
- Valid Driver’s license and approved driving record.
- Experience with project management and/or new customer onboarding, a plus.
- High standard of professionalism and ethics.
- Ability to analyze complex business situations and develop creative business focused solutions.
- Strong listening and interpersonal skills, and formidable negotiating skills.
- Effective communicator, both verbally and with written communications.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers and employees.
- Refined persuasion and related sales and presentation skills.
- Strong listening and interpersonal skills, and formidable negotiating skills.
- Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and execute in a high-pressure environment.
- Comfort with and efficient in data analysis, graphs, statistics, percentages and ratios.
- Travel estimated up to 60%.
Benefits
- Maternity/Paternal leave after 1 year of service
- Tuition Reimbursement eligible after 1 year of service
- Health benefits and programs - medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
- Additional benefits 401(k), short term disability, long term disability
- Paid Time Off, accrued per pay period, additional day earned per year of service
- 10 paid holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
sales strategiescontract managementdata analysisproject managementcustomer onboardingnegotiationpresentation skillspricing strategiesinventory managementbusiness analysis
Soft Skills
relationship buildingcommunicationinterpersonal skillsproblem solvingpersuasionprofessionalismcreativityprioritizationadaptabilityteam collaboration
Certifications
B.S. Degree in BusinessB.S. Degree in MarketingB.S. Degree in Supply ChainB.S. Degree in Engineering