Strategic Account Manager, Sales

Company Description

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today's needs and tomorrow's next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we're living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work cross-functionally between Technical Support, Field Application Engineering, Sales Operations, Pricing, Legal, and Product Marketing organizations to exceed customers' expectation
• Must be able to establish credibility across all levels/roles of a customer; technical, business, quality, executive. Need to be seen as a valuable team member that can get things done; building trust through execution
• Leverage a strong understanding our customers' priorities relative to our company goals; our product portfolio and market trends/insight
• Must be able to manage confidential information
• Manage and grow the relationship with strategic accounts - including contract manufacturers, distributors, and end customer
• Drive long and short-term customer revenue and shipment goals
• Carefully and strategically manage internal and external communication, striving for consistency and alignment to the customer and company goals
• Work with a high sense of urgency and the ability to prioritize activity and customer demands; being available, responsive, and timely to customer inquiries, requests for information, problem resolution, etc - even if after normal business hours.
• Negotiate customer pricing, balancing customer and company goals
• Manage the product lifecycle by account: product portfolio and roadmap, product launch, qualifications and end of life
• Coordinate technology and business meetings on weekly, quarterly and annual schedules
• Manage meeting preparation, including pre-meeting documentation and meeting strategy: goals, participant roles, alignment
• Customer relationship mapping and engagement strategy

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or Related field
• 5-7+ years of related direct sales experience
• Understanding of storage product portfolio and roadmap; identify fit and alignment with customer(s)
• Understand market conditions and how they affect Sandisk and the customer
• Understand the customer legal contracts and terms in place

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all…