Role Description
Siemens Digital Industries is seeking a motivated and experienced Corporate Account Manager (CAM) to drive growth within the Aerospace & Defense sector, with a dedicated focus on GE Aerospace, one of our most strategic key accounts. The CAM acts as a strategic partner, shaping long-term account vision and orchestrating Siemens’ broad portfolio of automation, electrification, and digitalization solutions to align with the customer’s priorities. This role emphasizes building deep, trust-based executive relationships across all levels of the customer’s organization, ensuring Siemens is positioned as a long-term partner in their transformation journey.
You’ll make an impact by:
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Strategic Growth & Executive Engagement
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Develop and execute a multi-year strategic account plan aligned with the customer's business roadmap, investment priorities, major programs, and industry challenges.
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Own growth across the account, developing the pipeline and opportunity portfolio required to achieve or exceed revenue targets and strategic objectives.
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Build and maintain long-term relationships with senior executives and key decision-makers across corporate leadership, programs, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, and IT/OT.
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Influence strategic priorities by serving as a trusted advisor who brings industry insight, innovation, and thought leadership.
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Facilitate regular executive-to-executive alignment between Siemens and customer leadership.
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Continuously identify whitespace and emerging opportunities where Siemens can create differentiated business and operational value.
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Orchestrating Integrated Siemens Solutions
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Translate complex business, engineering, and manufacturing challenges into integrated Siemens solution opportunities across automation, digitalization, industrial software, digital twin, electrification, and related technologies.
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Proactively generate demand and drive specification influence across strategic customer programs, manufacturing initiatives, and technology roadmaps.
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Coordinate Siemens resources and technical experts across Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure, Software, OEM Sales, Engineering, regional sales organizations, and other relevant businesses to deliver a unified account strategy.
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Lead cross-functional teams through influence, successfully navigating a complex, matrixed, and multinational organization without direct authority over all supporting resources.
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Collaborate with external partners, suppliers, distributors, engineering firms, and system integrators to expand Siemens' reach and ensure successful execution.
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Develop pursuit strategies for complex opportunities involving multiple customer stakeholders, Siemens organizations, partners, and decision-making levels.
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Driving Sustainable Value
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Maintain rigorous opportunity, pipeline, and forecast management, providing transparency around account performance, risks, priorities, and future growth.
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Drive proactive demand generation through customer research, strategic engagement, and identification of new business and transformation opportunities.
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Guide account governance, portfolio positioning, and strategic planning to create sustainable value for both Boeing and Siemens.
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Connect Siemens technologies and solutions to measurable customer business outcomes and KPIs, including productivity, time-to-market, manufacturing flexibility, cost, quality, resilience, compliance, and operational performance.
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Establish account-level KPIs and routinely track progress against strategic and commercial objectives.
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Ensure Siemens engagements create tangible, documented customer value while strengthening long-term competitive positioning.
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Shaping Market Presence & Strategic Insight
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Represent Siemens as a recognized thought leader within the Aerospace & Defense industry through customer forums, industry associations, executive councils, and strategic ecosystem engagements.
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Continuously analyze industry dynamics, major aerospace and defense programs, technology trends, customer investments, and competitive developments to anticipate future needs.
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Bring outside-in perspectives and relevant innovation to the customer to strengthen Siemens' position as a strategic transformation partner.
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Provide insights and feedback to Siemens' U.S. and global strategy, technology, and portfolio organizations to strengthen our competitiveness within Aerospace & Defense.
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Identify opportunities to replicate successful solutions and business models across the broader Aerospace & Defense market where appropriate.
Qualifications
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8+ years of progressive experience in strategic account management, business development, enterprise sales, or consulting roles supporting large, complex customers.
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Demonstrated success developing and executing strategic account plans and delivering sustainable growth in complex solution environments.
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Proven ability to build and sustain relationships with senior executives and decision-makers and influence long-term strategic priorities.
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Strong understanding of the Aerospace & Defense industry, including major customer programs, manufacturing environments, supply chain networks, and relevant regulatory considerations.
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Proven ability to operate in complex, matrixed, and multinational organizations, leading cross-functional teams and driving results through influence without direct authority.
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Demonstrated experience developing and managing sophisticated opportunity portfolios, pipelines, and forecasts.
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Experience navigating diverse routes to market, including direct sales, partners, distributors, engineering firms, and system integrators.
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Executive presence and strong communication skills with the ability to engage credibly across technical, operational, commercial, and C-suite audiences.
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Broad understanding of industrial automation and digitalization solutions, including digital twin, industrial software, CNC/PLC, shop-floor connectivity, and smart manufacturing.
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Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% based on customer and business requirements.
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Legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future.
Requirements
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10+ years of experience managing large, strategic accounts within Aerospace & Defense or similarly complex industrial markets.
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Existing executive relationships within major aerospace primes, Tier 1 suppliers, or the broader Aerospace & Defense ecosystem.
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Deep understanding of aerospace manufacturing and digital transformation, including digital twin, model-based systems engineering, industrial automation, smart manufacturing, IT/OT integration, and related technologies.
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Experience selling and orchestrating enterprise-level transformation solutions involving multiple stakeholders, technologies, business units, and partners.
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Demonstrated success translating customer strategic priorities into measurable operational and financial outcomes.
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Strong ability to navigate large customer organizations and orchestrate cross-business collaboration.
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Fundamental understanding of the Siemens Digital Industries portfolio, solutions, services, and routes to market.
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Proven ability to develop sophisticated opportunity and pursuit strategies across complex ecosystems involving end users, engineering firms, system integrators, technology partners, and other stakeholders.
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Experience orchestrating geographically distributed or global customer engagements.
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MBA, Master's degree, or advanced technical degree in engineering, business, or a related field preferred.
Benefits
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Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to our employees.
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The pay range for this position is $126,639 - $217,096 annually with a target incentive of 55% of the base salary.
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The actual wage offered may be lower or higher depending on budget and candidate experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, and premium geographic location.