Your Role

The Key Accounts Specialist is an integral role that helps uncover and create business opportunities to support sustainable growth of our Brenntag Key Accounts business. In this role the individual will work with the highly experienced team of Key Account Executives and Specialists to create and execute the growth plans of our key customers and assure business meets and exceeds budget.

This role requires a highly motivated proactive team player who has passion for learning aptitude for sales and marketing and strong ambition.

This position reports to the Commercial Support Managers.

Responsibilities

• Manage communicate and update customer pricing to be aligned with market conditions.
• Responsible for pricing inquiries to contribute overall decision making and business growth.
• Provide solutions to customer requests issues and inquiries to assure service excellence.
• Responsible for management and execution of RFQs (Requests for Quotes) and RFIs (Request for Information) to support business growth.
• Document market intelligence and perform business analysis to provide and execute on recommendations for growth.
• Identify develop and close new business opportunities focused on increased profitability.
• Develop and enhance customer relationships to assist with the development and execution of the strategies and growth plans to service our key customers.
• Provide technical and commercial guidance to key customers to solve problems.
• Prepare presentations for customer meetings.
• Attend customer meetings as needed create action plans and assure timely follow up.
• Manages execution of strategic customer projects like tailspend in timely and efficient way that supports customers meeting their own growth goals.
• Create and implement ideas for process improvement to increase business efficiency and productivity.

Your Profile

Skills

• Strong team player with high work ethic eager to learn and contribute
• Works independently strategically minded self-motivated individual with attention to detail
• Problem solving ability focused on excellent customer service
• Strong ability to manage complexity and change in a dynamic environment
• Proactive with good time management skills
• Excellent communication organization and presentation skills
• Ability to build enduring relationships with customers and colleagues
• Proficient at Excel Word Power Point SharePoint

Experience

• 1-3 years of working experience in B2B a plus
• Working experience in the chemicals industry is an advantage
• Working experience in customer service sales marketing and/or purchasing is a plus

Education

• Bachelors Degree preferred

Our Offer

• We aim to create an environment where the best people want to work where they can turn their passion into their job and realize their full potential.
• Individual development on-the-job training and development programs designed to help our employees grow in their careers.
• Paid parental leave
• Education assistance program
• Employee assistance program
• Various healthcare plan options as well as 401(k)

Brenntag provides equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees of all backgrounds and identities to create a workplace where difference is valued because it forms a resilient and more innovative organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of age disability gender identity sexual orientation ethnicity race religion or belief parental and family status or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds.

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