Key Account Manager

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Career Opportunity:
The Sales Account Manager - Key Account Manager drives the success of Silgan Dispensing Systems' business by managing and growing an existing and prospective customers. This position reports to the Director of Sales, Global Strategic Accounts, and partners with the broader business including innovation to bring a high level of service and increase customer satisfaction.

Silgan Dispensing is a global manufacturer of packaging solutions that help brands enhance lives. Our broad portfolio includes triggers, pumps, sprayers, and closures used by iconic brands across personal care, beauty, fragrance, home, garden, healthcare and beyond. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, the Silgan Dispensing team includes approximately 6,000 employees across North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. Our culture emphasizes engagement, collaboration and accountability, and we are committed to diversity, sustainability, innovation, respect, inclusion and customer focus.

• Manage strategic accounts, as required, by creating and working within a global account team. Penetrate and connect multiple functions and levels within customer organizations to key internal resources to drive partnerships, business growth, and value delivery.
• Hunt and convert prospective customers to Silgan's products and services by developing leads through networking, store audits, mass marketing, etc.
• Understand our customer's business strategy, market positioning and consumer perception of their brands to identify new product opportunities that lead to new business pipeline and projects.
• Engage beyond procurement within our customer's organizations and interact with R&D, Marketing and Supply Chain to better understand customer's needs and value drivers.
• Understand and leverage SDS' competitive advantages versus the competition: product performance, supply chain, consumer benefit.
• Be an active "voice of the customer" on customer needs, innovation opportunities, and project execution with cross-functional partners in the business.
• Develop and implement winning value propositions leveraging "insights selling" practices.
• Negotiate terms and conditions against both current and new business that drives growth, protects margins, and reduces risk for SDS while maintaining strong customer relationships.
• Manage account planning, pre-call planning, needs assessment, value selling, pipeline management, and  CRM systems.
• Work closely with operations, marketing, design strategy and innovation to execute territory and account growth objectives.
• Support the sales leader in establishing sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for the territory, projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products.
• Maintain and build strong knowledge of SDS solutions, product launches, product line and the competitive environment. Apply this knowledge to solve customer needs, challenges, and concerns.

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field.
• 5+ years of direct sales / key account management experience; experience with a CPG company specializing in creative packaging or related products and markets is preferred.
• Ability to learn and apply new approaches and stay on top of the latest marketing and sales techniques, technologies and tactics that complement organizational sales efforts.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with ability to work with all levels of the organization.
• Proven experience in working in a decentralized organization with home office activities and very frequent travels.
• Detail oriented and self-motivated to exceed sales growth results.
• Proficient user of Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Salesforce.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Sales and Business Development
• Industries:
  Packaging and Containers Manufacturing

Silgan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, or the presence of a disability, which would not prevent the performance of essential job duties with, or without, reasonable accommodation.