Account Manager - Flexible Automation - East Region

Kion Group AG

$76K — $112K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in enterprise B2B sales or business development
  • Experience with warehouse automation solutions like AMRs, AGVs, and robotics
  • Comfortable with value-based selling in complex environments
  • Proficient in building business cases and presenting ROI
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills with an executive presence
  • Willingness to travel for customer engagements and industry events
  • Experience with subscription and hybrid commercial models

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a robust pipeline for Flexible Automation solutions
  • Lead complex sales cycles from initial discovery to closure
  • Promote Dematic's diverse Flexible Automation portfolio
  • Educate customers on innovative commercial models for automation
  • Develop ROI-driven proposals to enhance operational value
  • Collaborate with various internal teams to ensure seamless solution execution
  • Engage with multiple stakeholders across customer organizations

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements with remote options in the Eastern US region
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge automation and robotics technology
  • Collaborative work culture with a focus on growth and innovation
  • Chance to build relationships with key industry players
  • Exposure to a diverse range of commercial models and customer challenges
Full Job Description
Dematic is expanding its Flexible Automation commercial team to accelerate growth in scalable warehouse automation, robotics, and software-enabled solutions. This role will focus on helping customers modernize fulfillment, warehousing, and internal logistics through a mix of autonomous and semi-autonomous technologies, digital orchestration, and commercial models that can reduce upfront investment and create recurring operational value.

This is a customer-facing commercial role for a seller who is comfortable leading complex enterprise sales conversations, building pipeline, shaping business cases, and working across a matrix of regional sales, solution design, software, engineering, and delivery partners. The role is anchored in Flexible Automation, while also working in partnership with the broader Dematic organization to bring customers the right end-to-end solution.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $76,500 - $112,500 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

This role can be located remotely in the Eastern US Region, near a major airport.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What You Will Do In This Role:
  • Build and grow pipeline for Flexible Automation solutions across new and existing customers.


  • Lead complex customer sales cycles from discovery through business case, solution alignment, commercial negotiation, and close.


  • Position Dematic's Flexible Automation portfolio, including AMRs, AGVs, robotic cells, pallet shuttle solutions, AutoStore-style solutions, and software-enabled automation.


  • Help customers understand commercial models that include recurring software, service, or automation-as-a-service value.


  • Develop ROI-driven proposals tied to labor, throughput, storage density, scalability, uptime, and operational flexibility.


  • Partner closely with regional account teams, software leaders, solution design, engineering, and implementation teams to shape solutions. Ensuring flexible technologies integrate smoothly with Dematic's traditional fixed automation infrastructure; and move deals forward. and move deals forward.


  • Engage operations, supply chain, logistics, IT, finance, and executive stakeholders across customer organizations.


  • Identify opportunities that start with Flexible Automation and expand into the broader Dematic portfolio where appropriate.


What We Are Looking For:

  • 5+ years of success in enterprise B2B sales, strategic account selling, or business development.


  • Experience selling one or more of the following: warehouse automation, AMRs, AGVs, robotics, goods-to-person systems, WMS, WES, TMS, warehouse orchestration software, supply chain execution software, or related industrial technology.


  • Comfort with consultative and value-based selling in multi-stakeholder enterprise environments.


  • Experience building business cases and communicating ROI to both operational and financial buyers.


  • Ability to navigate both direct selling and team-selling motions.


  • Strong executive presence, communication, negotiation, and account planning capabilities.


  • Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites and industry events.


  • AMR and robotics OEM sales


  • Warehouse automation and intralogistics sales


  • Supply chain software sales


  • SaaS sales into operations, logistics, warehousing, or manufacturing environments


  • WMS, WES, OMS, TMS, or warehouse execution/orchestration sales


  • Partner/channel sales in automation ecosystems
  • Experience with subscription, recurring revenue, or equipment/service/software hybrid commercial models


  • Familiarity with warehouse operations and distribution-center workflows


  • Experience selling into accounts with complex buying committees and long sales cycles


  • Prior exposure to AMR fleet software, warehouse orchestration, or automation controls/software integration

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