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This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading independent electronic components distributor to the world's leading contract manufacturers and OEMs. Built around the shared core values of Being amazing today, Demonstrating mutual respect and trust, Acting courageously and Owning our own outcomes, Velocity Electronics has experienced rapid growth and is looking to add to our talented global team. Our opportunity is massive! We offer career growth and development, and we want to talk to you!
What will you be doing?
The Strategic Account Manager works with a portfolio of key customer accounts to facilitate sustainable, long-term business in order to deliver exceptional experiences and outcomes. You will also be expected to:
- Cultivate and maintain strategic customer relationships
- Sell to a portfolio of key accounts
- Assist in the implementation of global sales and purchasing strategies
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the structure, culture, and needs of key customers
- Manage and facilitate own individual trading, including sales, sourcing, and throughput
- Ensure customer requirements are accurately entered in Velocity's ERP system
- Consistently deliver on monthly and quarterly gross profit sales goals
- Represent and communicate Velocity's culture, values, and value proposition
- Provide immediate and reliable solutions to customer needs
- Complete detailed records of all sales data regarding contracts, quotations, and other customer interactions and annotate all customer touches in Velocity's ERP system
- Create and present periodic reports detailing customer interactions and sales/gross profit totals
Education, Experience and Knowledge
Required Education
- High School Diploma or equivalent; 4-year college degree preferred
Required Experience
- Minimum 2+ years of sales experience; independent distribution sales experience in the electronic components industry preferred
- Language: German native language; English fluent
- Minimum 3 to 5 years sales experience
- Demonstrated expertise in sourcing, product knowledge, account management, CRM
- Computer literate; experience with complex ERP systems preferred
What will you bring to the team?
- Competitive
- Ambitious
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Able to build rapport
- Self-motivated
- Attention to detail
- Problem solver
- Emotional control
- Persistent
- Grit
- High endurance
- Is amazing
- Demonstrates mutual respect and trust
- Acts courageously
- Owns own outcomes
This position will be located in our Augsburg Office or remote.
This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to join an established, extremely successful business that can offer fantastic levels of personal development and remuneration. If you are a self-starter, commercially astute, well-presented, full of ideas and boundless energy combined with excellent communication skills, and want to be part of a growing, global company - apply now.
What We Do
Velocity Electronics is a leading certified stocking distributor and outsource procurement services provider specializing in the supply and material management of board level electronic components and associated products for leading electronics manufacturers worldwide. Market, logistics and quality assurance expertise, combined with our innovative and high service orientation have made Velocity Electronics a deeply trusted supply chain partner to the world's leading contract manufacturers and OEMs.
Velocity offers a full range of supply chain solutions for global manufacturers addressing component shortages, cost saving opportunities, material inspection and environmental compliance needs as well as excess material mitigation services. In addition, Velocity provides integrated and custom programs for third party procurement management, warehousing and logistics that are designed to reduce material procurement and administrative costs, increase inventory turns, improve cash-to-cash cycle times and eliminate the high costs associated with shortage and excess disruptions in the supply chain. Our custom, integrated solutions are guaranteed to reduce your total cost of procurement
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