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TEKsystems
Senior Account Manager - Industrial Accounts
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What they do
An Account Manager manages client accounts for a company. Develops and maintains communication with company clients, promotes sales and services, and works to resolve problems Accounts may be for product sales, advertising or marketing services or financial services such as banking.
$71,843 / year median in Illinois
-11% projected decline
Job Description
Direct Placement Role Travel Requirements:
30%-50% (trade shows and customer meetings)Description Job Description:
- The role is a Senior Account Manager in the professional services space, leading a territory sector without direct reports but with supporting roles.
- Responsibilities include making connections, promoting products, and deepening relationships with established industrial accounts like Grainger, Home Depot, HD Supply, and Fastenal.
- It requires a 'farming' approach to grow existing business, including corporate conversations, line reviews, and executive-level meetings.
- Travel is estimated at 30-50%, involving trade shows, customer visits, and ride-alongs, with flexibility for single-day trips.
- The role demands strong CRM involvement for demand planning and sales and operations planning, as well as data savviness for interpretation and presentation creation.
Role Value, Environment, and Impact:
- The role offers an uncapped variable compensation plan that scales with overperformance, and employees retain all travel points.
- The work environment is flexible, with travel adapting to business needs, and a hybrid schedule of four days in the Waukegan office and remote Fridays.
- The team includes supporting roles like an inside account executive and a sales administrative professional, with the role reporting directly to Calli.
- This position is critical for the company, as it's in their largest business area, aiming to deepen relationships with existing industrial accounts. Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Must-have skills include familiarity with Grainger and Fastenal, strong channel experience, and an enterprise B2B mindset, not B2C or SaaS.
- The ideal candidate needs to be well-rounded, possessing both account management and business development capabilities, including the ability to conduct corporate and executive-level meetings.
- Essential personality traits are high intrinsic motivation, self-governance towards bonus goals, executive presence, and a proactive 'prospector mentality'.
- Required technical skills include CRM involvement for demand planning and sales and operations planning, and data savviness for interpretation and presentation creation.
- Tangible product sales experience is a must-have. Job Type & Location This is a Permanent position based out of Waukegan, IL. Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $90000.00 - $100000.00/yr.
- The base salary range is $90,000-$100,000, dependent on experience.
- Variable compensation is an uncapped, on-target annual amount of $20,000-$30,000, scaling with overperformance.
- Variable compensation includes an annual portion and a monthly commission based on new product sales exceeding previous year's figures for assigned products.
- This role does not receive a company annual bonus.
- Additional incentives include a company phone, mileage reimbursement at 77 cents per mile, company credit cards (with employees keeping travel points), and per diems.