Sr Key Account Specialist-India

About Kennametal

Job Summary

Sr. Key Account Specialist [Sales Manager]

Location - Chennai

Responsible for retaining & grow business in existing & new customer within region. Responsible for gaining market share in this region.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Identify additional sales opportunities and execute the sales strategy for the assigned geographical area.
• Educate and evaluate the end-user and the needs of the channel partners to help develop the appropriate plan to meet and exceed the objectives.
• Encourage and maintain excellent working relationships with distributors and end-users to develop partnerships.
• Develop and maintain a pipeline of projects to drive the annual sales growth plan. Run-on this pipe.
• Keep customers well informed about latest technology developments and product innovations.
• Regularly review the changes and dynamics of the market to ensure that the opportunities are in line with the company's strategy.
• Support and participate in team sales initiatives by sharing relevant information for assigned accounts.
• Prepare regular progress, status and forecast reports to management in the assigned area of responsibility.
• Can anticipate spending 80% of the time in front of end-users/customers
• To manage customer accounts payable and ensuring on- time collection.
• To continuously improve current working knowledge of existing and new products and services.

Education/Key Skills

• Engineering graduate in Mechanical OR Industrial Production with 8 to 10 years of experience in Production / Manufacturing Engineering OR Methods / Process Engineering OR Sales / Application, preferably metal cutting products and working in technical manufacturing environment.
• Should be Competent in understanding and communicating all product and technical information.
• Able to assess customer needs competently.
• A computer literate with good presentation skills and lot of drive/energy to bring co-ordination and cohesiveness amongst all functions to implement the decided strategies and achieve sales plan.
• Strong administrative/communication skills.
• Should be willing to travel extensively.
• Should be willing to work with cross functional teams to meet customer needs.

Equal Opportunity Employer