Lead Account Manager

Posted 12 Days Ago
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Hsinchu City, TWN
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Information Technology
The Role
Lead sales strategy and account growth for thermal interface materials across Taiwan’s AI data center, electronics, semiconductor, and thermal management ecosystems. Manage strategic opportunities from customer engagement through design-in, qualification, negotiation, and production ramp. Develop direct and channel-partner relationships, influence technical specifications, coordinate application-based selling, maintain forecasts and pipelines, and collaborate with technical, product, supply chain, quality, and leadership teams to deliver profitable revenue growth.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are seeking an experienced and highly self-motivated Senior Sales Manager to lead growth initiatives for thermal interface materials within Taiwan’s AI data center and advanced electronics ecosystem. The role is designed for a commercially strong and technically capable sales professional with proven customer access, market credibility, and established relationships across AI server, high-performance computing, cloud infrastructure, electronic manufacturing, thermal module, and heat sink value chains.

The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying strategic opportunities, developing target accounts, influencing technical specifications, supporting design-in activities, managing channel partners, and converting qualified opportunities into sustainable revenue. This position requires strong business ownership, disciplined use of digital tools, high data literacy, and the ability to collaborate effectively across commercial, technical, supply chain, product, and leadership teams.

ResponsibilitiesSales Strategy and Business Development
  • Develop and execute a sales strategy for thermal interface materials in Taiwan’s AI data center, high-performance computing, cloud infrastructure, and advanced electronics markets.
  • Identify, qualify, and manage strategic opportunities from early customer engagement through technical evaluation, design-in, qualification, commercial negotiation, and production ramp-up.
  • Build a strong and measurable sales pipeline, with clear account plans, opportunity priorities, revenue targets, customer milestones, and execution actions.
  • Drive revenue growth through direct customer engagement, value-based selling, strategic account penetration, and effective coordination with authorized channel partners.
  • Monitor market trends, competitor activity, customer technology roadmaps, and application requirements to support business planning and resource prioritization.
Taiwan AI Data Center Ecosystem Engagement
  • Leverage strong knowledge of Taiwan's AI data center industry, including cloud infrastructure, AI servers, GPU and accelerator systems, networking equipment, optical modules, power electronics, and advanced thermal management solutions.
  • Maintain active relationships and touch points with customers and partners across engineering, sourcing, procurement, quality, operations, manufacturing, NPI, and executive functions.
  • Develop trusted access to key stakeholders across OEMs, ODMs, EMS providers, AI server manufacturers, thermal module makers, heat sink suppliers, cold plate suppliers, and related ecosystem participants.
  • Translate customer and ecosystem insights into actionable account strategies, application priorities, forecast inputs, channel plans, and commercial recommendations.
Electronic Manufacturing, Heat Sink, and Channel Partner Development
  • Develop and strengthen customer and partner relationships within electronic manufacturing, heat sink, thermal module, vapor chamber, cold plate, and liquid cooling-adjacent industries.
  • Support customer engagement across R&D, thermal engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, supplier quality, sourcing, and manufacturing operations.
  • Manage channel partners with clear expectations on demand creation, opportunity registration, customer coverage, pricing discipline, inventory visibility, point-of-sale reporting, and compliance with company policies.
  • Partner with distributors and value-chain participants to improve customer responsiveness, qualification support, forecast accuracy, and long-term account development.
Technical and Application-Based Selling
  • Apply strong working knowledge of thermal interface material applications, including phase change materials, thermal gap pads, thermal gels, greases, insulation pads, adhesives, and other high-performance thermal management solutions.
  • Understand and communicate key application and specification factors such as thermal conductivity, thermal impedance, bond line thickness, compression force, interface pressure, pump-out resistance, reliability, material compatibility, manufacturability, reworkability, and automation suitability.
  • Collaborate with technical service, field application engineering, product management, R&D, quality, and supply chain teams to support customer evaluations, sample feedback, qualification activities, issue resolution, and technical discussions.
  • Convert customer technical requirements into clear commercial actions, including product positioning, pricing input, forecast assumptions, account planning, and development priorities.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Electronics, Business, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
  • Significant experience in sales, business development, key account management, technical sales, or channel management within thermal interface materials, electronic materials, thermal management solutions, semiconductor packaging materials, or related high-performance materials industries.
  • Demonstrated customer network and business development track record within Taiwan’s AI data center, electronics manufacturing, server, thermal module, and heat sink ecosystems.
  • Proven ability to engage senior commercial stakeholders and technical decision makers, influence specifications, manage complex opportunity cycles, and deliver profitable revenue growth.
  • Strong data literacy and hands-on experience using SAP demand planning tools, Salesforce.com CRM, or comparable enterprise systems to manage forecasts, pipeline, account plans, and business reviews.
  • Strong channel management capability, including distributor development, opportunity tracking, compliant customer coverage, inventory and POS review, and channel conflict management.
  • Fluency in Mandarin Chinese and professional working proficiency in English are preferred for effective engagement with local customers and regional or global internal teams.
Competencies and Working Style
  • Highly self-driven, proactive, accountable, and able to operate independently in a fast-moving and competitive market.
  • Strong ownership mindset, with the ability to build customer access, mobilize internal resources, follow through on commitments, and deliver measurable results.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present technical and commercial topics clearly to customers, partners, and leadership teams.
  • Strong team spirit and collaborative attitude, with demonstrated ability to work effectively across sales, technical service, product management, R&D, supply chain, quality, finance, legal, and regional or global leadership teams.
  • High integrity, sound business judgment, resilience, learning agility, and a disciplined approach to growth, compliance, customer service, and long-term partnership development.
Preferred Experience
  • Experience selling into AI servers, high-performance computing, cloud computing infrastructure, data center networking, optical communication, semiconductor packaging, advanced electronics assembly, or high-power thermal management applications.
  • Prior success developing new business opportunities in Taiwan through direct account engagement, ecosystem mapping, channel partner activation, and technical design-in support.
  • Experience managing both direct and indirect sales models, including collaboration with authorized distributors, spec-in channel partners, technical representatives, and value-added partners.
  • Familiarity with customer qualification requirements, sample logistics, reliability testing, technical documentation, commercial negotiation, supply continuity expectations, and production ramp management.
  • Ability to travel frequently within Taiwan and selectively across Asia to support customer visits, partner reviews, technical discussions, trade events, manufacturing site engagement, and cross-functional business reviews.
Key Performance Indicators
  • Revenue growth, margin contribution, and new business development within assigned strategic accounts and target applications.
  • Quality and conversion rate of qualified pipeline, including customer engagements, samples, qualifications, design-ins, and production wins.
  • Expansion of customer and ecosystem relationships across AI data centers, electronics manufacturing, thermal module, heat sink, and channel partner networks.
  • Accuracy and discipline of Salesforce.com CRM updates, SAP demand planning inputs, forecast reviews, and account planning documentation.
  • Effectiveness of cross-functional collaboration in supporting customer qualifications, resolving issues, improving forecast visibility, and enabling sustainable business growth.
About Us

About Solstice Advanced Materials

Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next-generation materials through some of the industry's most renowned brands such as Solstice®, Genetron®, Aclar®, Spectra®, Fluka™, and Hydranal™. Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice’s approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science. For more information, visit Advanced Materials.


Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Electronics, Business, or a related discipline
  • Significant experience in sales, business development, key account management, technical sales, or channel management within thermal interface materials, electronic materials, thermal management solutions, semiconductor packaging materials, or related high-performance materials industries
  • Established customer network and business development track record within Taiwan’s AI data center, electronics manufacturing, server, thermal module, and heat sink ecosystems
  • Ability to engage senior commercial stakeholders and technical decision makers, influence specifications, manage complex opportunity cycles, and deliver profitable revenue growth
  • Strong data literacy and experience using SAP demand planning tools, Salesforce.com CRM, or comparable enterprise systems
  • Strong channel management capability, including distributor development, opportunity tracking, inventory and point-of-sale review, and channel conflict management
  • Fluency in Mandarin Chinese and professional working proficiency in English
  • Experience selling into AI servers, high-performance computing, cloud infrastructure, data center networking, optical communication, semiconductor packaging, advanced electronics assembly, or high-power thermal management applications
  • Experience developing new business opportunities in Taiwan through direct account engagement, ecosystem mapping, channel activation, and technical design-in support
  • Experience managing direct and indirect sales models with distributors, spec-in channel partners, technical representatives, and value-added partners
  • Familiarity with customer qualification requirements, sample logistics, reliability testing, technical documentation, commercial negotiation, supply continuity, and production ramp management
  • Ability to travel frequently within Taiwan and selectively across Asia
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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
85 Employees
Year Founded: 2001

What We Do

Solstice, part of Kin + Carta, is a modern software engineering firm that helps Fortune 500 companies seize new opportunities through world-changing digital solutions. As strategists and consultants, we help organizations evolve their digital strategy to solve mission-critical problems. As designers and developers, we build incredible hardware and software solutions that transcend a standalone product and transform an organization’s relationship with its customers. As instructors and coaches, we help companies transform from the inside out by adopting a high-speed culture of innovation. We’re strategists, researchers, designers, and engineers hell-bent on changing the way the world does business. We’re headquartered in Chicago and have delivery offices in New York, London, and Buenos Aires. For more information about Solstice, visit solstice.com

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