What are the responsibilities and job description for the Account Manager, North America position at Beckett Thermal Solutions?
Key Responsibilities:
- Protects sole source position at assigned customer accounts.
- Improves relationships and table stake metrics (Delivery, Quality & Price) on assigned customer accounts.
- Owns the full lifecycle of customer commercial requests - from intake to execution to follow-up - ensuring responsiveness, clarity, and accountability.
- Coordinates and communicates customer insights, market intelligence, risks, and growth opportunities clearly and across the organization.
- Leads development and execution of Strategic Account Plans for assigned customer accounts to preserve existing business, deepen relationships and generate new opportunities at targeted accounts.
- Builds and executes Market Development Plans with speed to pursue these new business opportunities.
Your Objectives:
- Develop a strong understanding of internal roles and cross-functional processes, building effective relationships across the organization to efficiently manage customer requests.
- Deepen customer relationships through engagements and targeted face-to-face visits that drive strategic growth conversations.
- Drive and maintain customer delivery metric to 97% on assigned accounts.
- Lead the development of Strategic Account Plans for assigned accounts.
- Plan and manage execution of strategic account plan activities in intended timeline
- Proactively manage customer requests to ensure the proper follow-up takes place in a timely manner to meet their expectations.
- Gather customer forecasts and forward-looking intelligence to strengthen pipeline visibility, enhance SIOP integration, and improve understanding of each account’s sales cycle.
- Build multi-level relationships across engineering, quality, operations, purchasing, marketing, and executive leadership within customer organizations.
Goals to Accomplish:
- Increase customer engagement frequency and quality to enhance account intimacy, loyalty, and lead generation.
- Capture and communicate customer and market intelligence to internal market team
- Develop and maintain Strategic Account Plans for top 5 accounts; deliver structured quarterly business updates.
- Capture customer demand forecasts and integrate into monthly SIOP planning process
- Be recognized by customers and internal teams as a responsive, resourceful, and solutions-oriented partner.
- Engage in selected and strategic professional development offerings.
Duties of Assignment:
- Provide timely sales quotations per customer requests.
- Participate in business case development for new business opportunities.
- Communicate critical customer information to internal stakeholders.
- Deliver Customer Activity weekly summary to Executive and Market teams.
- Facilitate new product and innovation discussions with existing and prospective customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, communications or a related field.
- 0 - 5 years of professional experience.
- Preferred experience servicing customers in manufacturing or OEM environments.
- Strong ability to communicate and influence key stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including executive and C-level.
- Highly organized and capable of managing tactical execution while advancing strategic initiatives.
- Excellent listening skills and ability to translate unmet needs of the customer.
- Demonstrated bias for action, resilience, and willingness to take initiative in situations.
- Ability to balance the needs of the customer while preserving Beckett Thermal Solutions' best interests.