[Hiring] Account Manager @Quaker Houghton

Role Description

The Account Manager is responsible for managing and growing customer accounts through solution-based selling, focusing on revenue, margin, and share growth within the assigned territory. Acting as the key link between customers and internal teams, this role ensures reliable delivery, issue resolution, and long-term value creation in alignment with company strategy.

• Deliver profitable sales growth.
• Maintain and develop existing accounts by promoting ways of improving overall contribution, selling new product lines, customer solutions and share of wallet gains.
• Identify and pursue potential new and existing business opportunities.
• Introduce new products and cost reduction programs to aid customer processes.
• Collaborate with all commercial team functions to meet customer expectations and objectives.
• Identify prospects and assess product needs while supporting product development and research ideas.
• Responsible for initiating sales and pricing negotiations to achieve margins at desired levels.
• Manage and maintain updated CRM, including pipeline, prospects and account plans, to enable business decisions and execution.
• Provide inputs into budget and forecast processes and own annual budget commitment.
• Comply with all Company Policies: to include but not limited to Code of Conduct and expense reporting, etc.
• Ownership of individual development plan (IDP) as agreed upon with direct line manager.
• Implement and drive an internal value based selling approach through the customer engagement and account management process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Engineering, or a business-related area or a combination of 10+ relevant industry work experience and certifications.
• Experience in the paint pretreatment and/or industrial coatings market preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of B2B sales or relevant industry experience.

Benefits

• Competitive pay programs with excellent career growth trajectory.
• Paid time off for volunteerism.
• Dress for your day; how you dress is determined by what your day may bring.
• Opportunity to participate in comprehensive benefit options including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Parental Leave, Holiday Pay, Paid Time Off, Tuition Reimbursement, and Savings Plan.