Key Account Associate (Hybrid)

Company Description

At the Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, we know that every career matters. Which is why you should conduct yours on a grand scale. Headquartered in the northwest Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect, we are a division of Bosch, a multinational engineering and electronics organization and the largest privately held employer in the world.

Guided by the principles of founder Robert Bosch, we offer a setting where social and environmental responsibility are part of our corporate DNA. Always mindful of our impact on the future, we are committed to sustainability, paying it forward, giving back, and lifelong learning. These are but a few of the reasons why our parent company has more than 400,000 associates and a legacy of success spanning 138+ years.

With sales opportunities in retail, industrial, and e-commerce channels, we’re part of a global powerhouse earning $80 billion euros a year.

Play an integral role in a division that drives the success of our large, privately held consumer packaged goods organization. Offering the vast resources to maximize your effectiveness, we provide the support you need to achieve your most important objectives. Depending on your role within Sales, you can bring our products to market through three different and efficient channels: retail, industrial, and e-commerce. Featuring such popular brands as Bosch®, Dremel®, and Rotozip®, we offer opportunities to reinforce our strong reputation for quality, grow new business, and expand upon our existing relationships with some of the most influential distributors in power tools.

This is your chance to go big. Go bold. And use your sales skills to drive success on a massive scale, with Robert Bosch Tool Corporation.

Job Description

This role is hybrid remote with 40% monthly in-office presence in Mount Prospect, Illinois. (2-3 days in office per week)

The Key Account Associate role is an integral part of our sales team focused on supporting the rapidly growing hardware channel on the National Accounts team. This role operates as part of a team, supporting our Key Account Managers and Regional Key Account Managers to drive Bosch brand insistence in the commercial construction supply channel.

Through active account involvement, you will assist with day-to-day operations, account maintenance and pricing, sales presentation support, product line review support, sales analysis, customer event support, field executions and other customer level support.

The successful candidate is one who takes initiative, doesn’t hesitate to make constructive suggestions, is looking for an opportunity to join a national brand selling through distribution, is a team player, and most of all is results-oriented. This is an extraordinary opportunity to generate success, drive organizational growth, learn and contribute with a top-performing team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Various day-to-day communication and support of key contacts at customer
• Support with product line reviews, customer meetings, customer presentations
• Shows and event organization and support
• Support with key field/customer initiatives – project management, tracking, organization, communication, creation of materials, etc.
• Support team/customer with online content/e-commerce initiatives
• New product and pricing setup/management with customer
• Tracking down and escalating order status and product availability updates
• Budget tracking and management for the team
• Analyze sales data to identify account and market opportunity (with direction and collaboration from team).
• Utilize Excel to develop Power BI interactive reporting tools that generate insight and actionable intel.
• Participate in account planning and execution including tracking of key initiatives

Qualifications

We are looking for assertive, energetic and creative people to join our team.  The individual that will succeed in this role will be a mix of operational and analytical mindset.  This role requires excellent communication skills.  It is highly collaborative, and very detail-oriented.

• Bachelor’s degree required with Business, Sales, Marketing specialization preferred.
• Minimum 1-2 years of business environment experience. Customer service, sales, marketing, sales, sales analytics preferred. 
• Strong communication skills, analytical abilities, ability to work well with a team
• Possess intermediate to advanced level MS Office skills to include PowerPoint, Excel and Word (creating and modifying pivot tables in Excel is necessary)

Additional Information

By choice, we are committed to a diverse workforce - EOE/Protected Veteran/Disabled.

BOSCH is a proud supporter of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering &