[Hiring] Key Account Executive @Arrow Electronics

Role Description

A Key Accounts Manager is the single point of contact (SPOC) for large, multi-location, complex Arrow customers. Serving as a Global or National Accounts Manager, this position creates selling opportunities within specified strategic customer accounts by creating strategic relationships with top management. Responsible for achieving sales quota and assigned strategic account objectives.

• Account Management:
  • Creates selling opportunities within assigned critical, large, multi-location, complex, and high visibility Arrow customers through a very strategic sales plan and process.
  • Has a thorough understanding of the customer’s needs and decision-making hierarchy to proactively assess, clarify, and validate customer needs.
  • Leads a strategic account planning process that develops mutual performance objectives, financial targets, and critical milestones.
  • Executes on solutions selling through an advanced knowledge of Arrow’s supply chain solutions and design processes.
  • Grows profit and maximizes margins by selling value-added, long-term solutions.
  • Coordinates the involvement of Arrow personnel, including sales support, service, and management resources, to meet account objectives and customers’ expectations.
  • Typically manages a territory of accounts up to $125 million.
• Quotations and Contract Negotiations:
  • Plans, manages, and oversees all the RFQ’s signed off within assigned customers.
  • Ensures that all RFQ activities and strategies are well established, communicated, addressed, and agreed upon within Arrow guidelines, policies, and procedures.
  • Directly participates in the review and negotiation of significant contracts.
  • Assists in reviewing customer requests to ensure amendments to the terms and conditions in contracts are carried out.
  • Ensures that all Arrow departments and customer departments have the necessary information for a seamless contract renewal/negotiation process.
  • Maintains a dominant market share position at each assigned account.
  • Takes an innovative and creative approach to supplier and customer action plans.
• Relationships:
  • Develops and builds influential and strategic relationships at the manager decision-making level, with the goal of building relationships at the senior management and C-level/executive level.
  • Utilizes distribution/rep/supplier knowledge to grow sales and profits within assigned customers.
  • Interfaces with suppliers to update them on demand creation progress through meetings or reviews.
  • Builds strong relationships with suppliers’ reps and managers, leveraging these relationships for future product development and supply chain solution information.
  • Develops relationships with key personnel in marketing, product development, manufacturing, purchasing, and engineering at accounts.
  • Utilizes Arrow’s key management with key customers and suppliers.

This job profile requires the assignment and participation in a sales compensation plan. A portion of OTE will be variable and tied to specific sales-related goals as set forth by Arrow.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a 4 year degree; or 8 years and an advanced degree; or equivalent related experience.
• Recognized as an expert in own area within the organization.
• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise.
• Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends solutions/best practices.
• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify solutions.
• Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations.
• Identifies applications of functional knowledge and existing methodologies to complex problems.
• Serves as an expert within own function.
• Leads functional teams or projects and serves as a best practice/quality resource.

Requirements

• Fully Remote: Must be able to travel to an Arrow office location as requested by Arrow leadership.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401k, With Matching Contributions
• Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)/Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Options
• Paid Time Off (including sick, holiday, vacation, etc.)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Growth Opportunities
• And more!