Sales Account Manager

Are you an experienced sales person with experience in building relationships and providing innovative water solutions? Would you like to work for a global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital resources?

Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services. Around the world businesses in foodservice, food processing, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets choose Ecolab products and services to keep their environment clean and safe, operate efficiently and achieve sustainability goals.

Ecolab is seeking a Sales Account Manager to join its industry leading Nalco Water business team, in Leeds.

Sales Account Manager Responsibilities:

In this position, you will ensure order and revenue growth of Company products and services to assigned customer and prospect accounts by analysing and meeting customer needs; developing and implementing sales plans; selling products and providing customer support in an assigned geographic territory. You will also be responsible for:

• Achieving annual agreed sales targets.
• Establishing selling strategy, planning and tactics for sales pursuits.
• Retaining, building and maintaining relationships with current customers and ensuring all potential sales opportunities are followed up.
• Analysing customer needs, requirements, and strategic plans recommending solutions with Company programs.
• Keeping management informed through regular activity reports and communications.
• Focusing on customer retention and improving customer satisfaction through excellence.
• Managing the sales order process from order acceptance to delivery in a timely and professional manner.
• Managing customer contracts by verifying supplied products and contractual service levels.
• Providing technical support to customers; identifying and resolving customer complaints, escalating as required.
• Adding customer value by acting as business consultant to customers' key management.
• Achieving penetration of targeted new business opportunities through application of professional selling skills and sales planning techniques.
• Recommends changes in products, service, and policy by evaluating product results and competitive developments; communicating customer requirements not currently offered by Company to Marketing.

The ideal Sales Account Manager:

To be successful for this Sales Account Manager position you will be educated to degree standard within science or a technical speciality, ideally with experience of working in the water industry or a similar sector. You will also possess successful direct sales experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, alongside a history of building and maintaining relationships with clients to exercise every possible sales opportunity.

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