Strategic Account Manager - Engineering

Posted 19 Days Ago
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7 Locations
In-Office or Remote
140K-170K Annually
Expert/Leader
Professional Services
The Role
The Strategic Account Manager leads client relationships, manages project execution, generates revenue, and oversees multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring client satisfaction and profitability.
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Foth is a 100% member-owned science and engineering consulting firm headquartered in Wisconsin, with over 85 years of success. Our 750 members across 32 locations are dedicated to solving our clients’ toughest science and engineering challenges. Consistently ranked by Engineering News Record in the top 150 firms, we offer a values-based, collaborative, and flexible work environment with professional growth opportunities. If you thrive working alongside a smart and caring team, Foth may be the place for you.
Join our team and experience the Foth difference that contributes to our impressive 92+% member retention rate! Learn more at foth.com/careers.  


Foth is currently seeking a Strategic Account Manager with consumer products (or related) engineering, construction, or manufacturing experience who is looking for new learning experiences, opportunities for career growth, and a desire to contribute to our clients’ success.  This position will be working out of our Green Bay, WI or US-Based Remote work from home location. 
 
Position Overview:
In this role, you will be responsible for both your assigned client(s) and your Foth project execution team, delivering personalized, client-centered service to develop and manage positive, long-term client relationships. By demonstrating dynamic and positive leadership, you will motivate a multi-disciplined team to support your clients' engineering, equipment, and capital execution needs, enabling them to lead in their market. You will represent Foth as the primary point of contact for the relationship with the client, working very autonomously.
 
The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills, business acumen, technical expertise, financial acumen, and strong negotiation skills. They should be capable of generating revenue, delivering profitability, pursuing new opportunities, creating and implementing strategic plans, and making timely decisions. Flexibility in scheduling and the ability to travel as necessary are also required to meet the role's demands.
 

Position Responsibilities:

  • Profit & Loss responsibilities for capital execution projects withing a client account portfolio
  • Develop strategic and tactical plans to meet or exceed revenue objectives
  • Identify and influence key decision-makers at all levels within the client organization
  • Assume multiple roles during pursuits as it relates to qualifying, pursuing and closing opportunities
  • Drive and provide oversight on the development of client proposals 
  • Maintain accurate and timely client pipeline and forecasting data 
  • Develop and deliver presentations to Clients 
  • Coach cross-functional teams for upcoming client meetings and presentations
  • Demonstrate strategic decision making and conflict resolution
  • Build the overall client relationship and Foth’s industry professional network
  • Collaborate with operations team on the planning of resources
  • Collaborate with risk management on the negotiation of client contracts
  • Ability to travel with short notice due to client needs. Average expected travel is 25-35%
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Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or relevant professional experience
  • 10+ years of paper, converting, plastics or building materials (or related) industry experience within engineering or manufacturing
  • 7+ years of sales, account management, client development, and or stakeholder's management across business units
  • 3+ years of supervisory experience
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Required Previous Recent Experience with the Following:

  • Account management experience
  • Prior experience developing revenue projections
  • Prior client relationship management experience
  • Prior experience managing cross functional teams and stakeholders
  • Prior experience in contract negotiation, management and administration 
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Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience using social media platforms for business purposes
  • CRM platform experience
  • Experience managing capital project portfolios
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
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Copy and paste the video link below in a new browser to watch and learn more about the Client Team Leader role at Foth:
 
https://youtu.be/mwpeRfazqBA?si=VdXaoVI8ab0V1gSp 

All Foth Companies are equal opportunity employers, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qualified women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. All locations are tobacco-free.  Subject to applicable state law, all applicants who have received a written offer of employment and a copy of Foth’s Drug and Alcohol-Free Workplace Program Policy, will be required to undergo testing for commonly abused controlled substances. Applicants must complete the required drug testing within two business days of offer acceptance.  Foth will pay for all drug testing, which will be conducted by a licensed independent medical laboratory that follows testing requirements in accordance with applicable state law.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters/Agencies: Foth does not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiting firms. Absent a signed recruiting agreement coordinated through Foth, Foth reserves the right to pursue and hire candidates without financial obligation to third party recruiters or agencies.

 

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The Company
HQ: De Pere, WI
654 Employees
Year Founded: 1938

What We Do

By combining science, engineering, and technology with a true collaborative spirit, Foth has delivered innovative solutions to our clients since 1938. Our history has been shaped by the evolving needs of our clients – expanding our services, locations, and membership to provide client-centered service. While the challenges we solve and the way in which we solve them have evolved over the years, our commitment to our clients, members, and our communities, as well as our focus on health, safety, and quality have never wavered. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Foth employs 650 members in 28 locations to provide our national and international clients with convenient, personal service. Our dynamic science and engineering teams are organized into business units – Environment Solutions, Infrastructure Solutions, and Production Solutions – each comprised of extraordinary talent embodying decades of knowledge and specialized expertise. We bring our rich history, tradition of success, and interdisciplinary knowledge to every client we serve, understanding their business, providing trusted advice, and developing customized, innovative solutions with remarkable energy and ingenuity. As a private industry or public entity, you can trust Foth to serve as an extension of your team. Whether you need to build new infrastructure, meet complex environmental regulations, or optimize your manufacturing operations, we’ll deliver the results you need by listening, learning, and asking the right questions. Collaboration is at the core of our purpose to solve your toughest science and engineering challenges.

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