Vacancies Account Manager Powder

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792 weve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color peoples lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands including Dulux International Sikkens and Interpon is trusted by customers around the globe. Were active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. Its what youd expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company thats dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today while creating an even better tomorrow. Lets paint the future together.

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Job Purpose

The purpose of this role is to ensure that adequate resources and capability (people and processes) reside within the business to deliver on the financial and non financial targets by managing business relationships with customers / accounts (current customers and new prospects) especially strategic customers.

Territory Region: Iowa Kansas Nebraska and South Dakota

Travel Requirements - 25-35% of over night travel through out the month

This role requires powder coatings experience.

Key Responsibilites

Create and execute Account/Customer plans aligned with Regional / Global Segment & Marketing plan if applicable.
Develop relevant Commercial pipeline for respective accounts.
Deliver the agreed financial and non financial targets in line with business budgets.
Drive innovation through customers.
Develop and maintain contact map within each account at all reporting level and across all functions.
Drive Continuous Improvement across the organization to generate value to customers Forecast Service capability efficiency and productivity.
Collaborate with cross functional teams including relevant teams at the key accounts to prioritize new developments make plans for trials etc.
Provide support and leadership to sales customer services and technical teams by showing vision putting in resources to ensure high service levels and operational efficiency.
Steward new business development projects opposite account requirements.

Job Requirements

• Knowledge & Work Experience Paints and coatings industry any B2B industry environment.
• 3-5 years of work experience in commercial roles sales and key account management sales to strategic accounts.
• Minimum Bachelor Degree in business management or related field.
• Problem solving stakeholder management project management decision making creating value propositions drive results orientation communication and presentation commercial and business acumen basic understanding of cross functional processes and financial concepts related to sales and cost to serve.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range for this role is: $100000 to $116000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

401K retirement savings with 6% company match
Medical insurance with HSA
Dental Vision Life AD&D benefits
Generous vacation sick and holiday pay
Short & Long term disability
Paid Parental leave after 1 year
Career growth opportunities
Active Diversity & Inclusion Networks
Employee referral bonus
Employee appreciation days

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when our organization all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age or disability.

Requisition ID:53148

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