Do you like to be on the cutting edge of innovation? If you’re motivated confident and looking to challenge yourself to be your best, then you’ve come to the right place! This is a role where you to showcase your skills inside and outside of the organization. You’ll work with a variety of customers to evaluate their needs and translate them into workable specifications and processes for your teammates. You’ll also be responsible for ensuring the final product is ready to meet our customer’s expectations before final shipping. Come join a team where you’re treated like family, you can grow and learn strong core values from dedicated leaders focused on quality and excellence!
Key Account Manager - Western Canada
Join us for a growing opportunity as a KEY ACCOUNT MANAGER - This remote position in Western Canada is responsible for sales of major technical products and services, generating new business opportunities, develop long-term customer relationships, implement strategic plans, and meet key objectives set by management.
- Understand key customer strategies, manage key account plans, and develop relationships with key contacts. Collects and maintains information on the requirements, organization, budget and preferences of current and potential customers.
- Establish / maintain customer confidence at high levels and develops positive customer relationships to promote and secure long-term agreements.
- Achieve regional / global sales goals and targets. Assist other key account managers in the achievement of team goals.
- Manage pricing, negotiations and contracts for materials, equipment flow business and high-end systems.
- Provide profitable and strategic solutions to customer problems. Recognize and introduce new applications and products to the market.
- Effectively regain market share through product and industry knowledge.
- Coordinate customer relationships between internal and external teams: Application Development, Systems Engineering, Application Support, Product Line Managers, Finance, and Customer Service.
- Effectively prepare and deliver sales presentations.
- Participates in goal setting and preparation of sales forecasts and budgets.
- Collects and shares competitive intelligence and identifies weaknesses that may lead to product improvements and application development.
- Assists A/R when necessary to interface with the customer and collect past due amounts
- Bachelor’s degree in a business or technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 10 Years Sales and key account management experience. Experience in related thermal spray industries strongly preferred.
- Good selling and negotiating skills
- Able to travel and manage a sizable territory
- Technical sales and knowledge relating to materials, coatings and equipment. Experience with thermal spray applications strongly preferred.
- Basic computer skills (i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Outlook, Salesforce, SOIP forecasting)
- Excellent communication skills, organizational skills and the ability to work in a team oriented organization
About us
Oerlikon is a global innovation powerhouse for surface engineering, polymer processing and additive manufacturing in key industries such as aerospace, automotive, energy, tooling and textiles. We serve as a key partner in enabling our customers to reach their targets for optimizing the performance, function and sustainability of their products and manufacturing processes. Our solutions reduce emissions in transportation, maximize longevity and performance of tools, increase energy efficiency and advance intelligent material and sustainable polymer processing. These achievements are proven hallmarks of our global leadership.
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