Strategic Account Manager

TITLE: Strategic Account Manager

JOB REF: PV10546

Permanent

Location:      UK Home based, happy to travel throughout Europe.

2 trips per month, 2~3 days per trip

Must be located in the south east close to major airports

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 + OTE

JR Personnel are an employment agency acting on behalf of a client who is looking for a strategically focussed account manager.

ROLE PROFILE:  

• Build and maintain relationships with our major customers.
• Working closely with our distributor, the successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating the commercial and technical interactions with our major distribution customers.
• Create and implement a sales strategy focusing on a small number of key customers.
• Organise and attend face to face meetings with these customers and with our distributor in the territory.
• Interacting with your customers’ engineering teams to recommend the best solutions to meet their project criteria.

PERSON PROFILE:

• Motivated, proactive and able to work independently, a ‘self-starter’.
• Strong interpersonal skills, a positive attitude and the ability to communicate effectively with customers and management at all levels.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• A natural relationship builder, with an ability to sell.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Demonstrable successful sales experience
• Experience of building and implementing a sales strategy
• Distributor relationship management experience
• Experience of engaging with technical, engineering decision makers
• Electronics industry experience would be advantageous, but not essential
• Able to motivate, lead and manage

Due to the number of responses generated we are unable to get back to every applicant.  If you have not heard from us within seven days you will not have been successful on this occasion.