About Kennametal
With over 80 years as an industrial technology leaderKennametal productivity to customers through materials science tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense earthworks energy general engineering and transportation turn toKennametalto help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately8700 employees are helping customers in nearly 100 countries stay $2.1 billionin revenues in fiscal 2023.
Position Background:
Title: Jr. Key Account Specialist Infrastructure Business
Location- Gurgaon
Education & Relevant Experience (in brief):
- Engineering graduate in Mechanical OR Industrial Production with Management
- Desirable to have 6 years of experience in Sales/ Application in Metal-Forming
- / Wear Products/Coating technologies.
- Should be Competent in understanding and communicating all product and technical information effectively to customers.
- Able to assess Customer needs competently.
- Willing To Travel extensively- minimum 50-70%
Desired skills and experience:
- Passion to work in a challenging work environment.
- Positive attitude& Self-motivated and demonstration of proactive approach.
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- Experience in Handling channel partners Sales agents direct accounts and Key accounts.
- Good influencing skills
- Hands-on and can-do attitude - high energy positive deadline-driven
- dependable with an ability to deliver results with aggressive deadlines.
- Strong presentation skills when communicating with external and internal
- audiences.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Engg. Components and Surface Technology business growth in the region and
- achieve the targets set of the region.
- Handling Distribution & Liaison agents and driving them to increase the sales YOY for Wear
- products business.
- Identifying new opportunities in the region and building pipeline for future growth.
- Ability to deal with internal stakeholders like manufacturing costing finance HR Costing etc.
- Key Account Management for Projects in the region.
- Application development for Wear products like Sintered Finished Conforma Clad
- Hard Facing products/Services.
- Handling Auto Component Manufacturers Process industries (Steel Cement Power)
- Energy (Oil& Gas) OEMs
- Collection of receivables and maintaining the required DSO.
- Candidate should have ability to effectively grow and maintain strong relationship with
- various functional groups of the client base and should be able to apply creativity
- innovation in approach and implementation.
- He should have excellent business acumen financial negotiating skills as well as have strong.
- interpersonal communications skills & Excellent Execution Capabilities.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Required Experience:
Junior IC