Senior Account Manager - Chicago

Senior Account Manager - Chicago

Job Description

Territory: Central and Northern Illinois (Metro & Suburban Chicago).  Candidate must reside within the territory.

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

The Senior Account Manager role at Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP) plays a critical role in driving our regional strategy, delivering on key financial targets, and partnering with customers to deliver best-in-class experiences.  This is hybrid role that involves inside sales, digital selling as well as field sales depending on the territory and market. The ideal candidate for this role embraces an ambitious, consultative and agile mindset, strategically utilizes internal resources and technology to help solve customer challenges, a storyteller who can deliver customer communication in both virtual and non-virtual formats and has an excellent financial and operational acumen. This individual has had a proven track record of sales success.  The KCP Sales Account Manager will leverage their experience to lead with empathy and provide solutions while at the same time focusing on what matters most: adding customer value and achieving overall sales goals, growth and profitability objectives in her or his respective region.

Account Managers will sell branded towel, tissue, PPE, and manufactured wiper products of Kleenex®, Scott®, Cottonelle®, KleenGuard, and WypAll ® B2B to manufacturing and other end user markets. Will prospect and work in conjunction with our network of distributor partners to identify end user needs and create new sales growth for our billion-dollar brands.  The majority of the sales role will be a combination of face to face and virtual selling to key end user segments through distribution to achieve sales goals.

In this role, you will:

• Expertly use prospecting skills to identify large end users and end user markets

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with distribution partners

• Proactively use digital technology (video, AI, and social media, etc.) platforms to identify leads and business opportunities, build relationships, and represent KCP’s brand

• Regularly engage existing targeted end user customers to understand their business needs and identify buying behavior/value drivers in order to best position current and new products and solutions

• Develop & own exceptional relationships with Distributor Sales Representatives (DSRs) and serve as a proven selling consultant to help jointly close sales when relevant

• Collaborate with the Distribution Management teams and DSRs to initiate/build relationship with potential end-user customers

• Engage targeted distribution customers to understand their business needs/drivers and execute activities to support those needs.

• Utilize end user marketing insights, digital prospecting techniques, and centrally developed lead campaigns to generate opportunities and close new business

• Build and drive end user solutions to always maximize the customer’s experience while keeping KCP’s revenue expectations in mind

• Execute annual business plans to help maximize top-line and bottom-line growth and achieve volume, market share and profit/contribution objectives

• Maintain an active and accurate pipeline in Salesforce and meet sales financial and activity targets for respective position

• Continually improve selling / prospecting skills (e.g., Challenger) and develop expertise in relevant industry verticals

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

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About You

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