Main Requirements:
Main Responsibilities:
Develops, manages, and maintains business relationships with assigned accounts supporting the
organization's sales strategy.
Supports revenue growth by identifying and contacting new business opportunities and participating
in cost reduction initiatives.
Extends and expands sale of products and services to existing clients.
Leads, manages and coordinates communication and interfaces with the customer at appropriate
levels.
Negotiates and implements contracts with accounts as authorized.
Manages production and distribution issues associated with accounts.
Responsible for establishing and maintaining positive customer relations.
Acts as champion for the voice of the customer within the business.
Supports account strategy and works with key stakeholders in the business to achieve optimum
results.
Responsible for measuring customer satisfaction and creating action plans to improve satsifaction on
data.
Manages accounts receivable deliverables including discussing and negotiating payment terms.
Drives Customer Focus Six Sigma initiatives to strengthen relationship with customer.
Drives cross business unit account development in support of account strategy.
Maintains Sales forecasts and tracks progress and accuracy against forecast.
As applicable, works with internal stakeholders and customers to balance inventory, service, and
delivery capabilities with customer expectations.
Competencies:
Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an
organization.
Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a
clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and
authenticity.
Articulating Value Proposition - Interprets internal and external customer needs based on relevant
application; explains and demonstrates products, solutions, and services to distinguish strengths
and weaknesses to meet customer's specific needs to differentiate against competition.
Channel Awareness - Explains and contextualizes industry structure, dynamics, and path to market
in order to advance organizational goals.
Pricing Strategy - Develops prices by aligning and building consensus with key stakeholders across
functions to achieve business targets.
Account Planning - Identifies objectives to drive execution of business and/or account strategy by
reviewing the status relative to where it needs to be and enabling tracking of progress against
targets.
Adapts to target audience - Explains complex topics (significant technical data, subject matter
expertise, etc.) in such a way that the target audience (e.g. sales professionals, customers, training
vendors, etc.) can understand, retain, and use the information
Developing Account Strategy - Determines current status of account in terms of relationship,
financial, product competitiveness, barriers, quality, and service and defining desired future state by
balancing customer requirements and business capabilities in order to define achievable targets
aligned with the business strategy.
Integrates Customer Perspective - Incorporates an understanding of the customers' perspective on
our products and sales efforts to develop sales content that improves our ability to meet their needs
and increase revenue.
Sales Forecasting - Collects and assesses customer data from internal and external sources;
compares against historical data to determine useful inputs and create a forecast of future
consumption patterns.
Sales Pipeline Management - Plans proactively for successful execution of account/territory-level
sales strategies and plans based on current pipeline; evaluates pipeline health (size, contents,
progress); adjusts sales strategy, plans, or high impact activities accordingly; as applicable coaches
sellers in order to achieve sales objectives.
Sense Making - Through a series of diagnostic and probing questions and research, develops and/or
supports an intimate understanding of the customer needs, behaviors, and/or their buying journey.
Synthesizes complex information from internal and external resources to deliver tailored solutions
for the internal or external customer.
