Account Manager - Flexible Automation - West Region

Kion Group AG

$76K — $112K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in enterprise B2B sales or business development
  • Experience in selling warehouse automation technologies, AMRs, AGVs, or related software
  • Comfortable in consultative, value-based selling in enterprise environments
  • Proven ability to build business cases and communicate ROI effectively
  • Strong executive presence and negotiation skills
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites and events

Responsibilities

  • Build and grow the sales pipeline for Flexible Automation solutions
  • Lead complex sales cycles from discovery to closure
  • Position Dematic’s Flexible Automation product portfolio
  • Educate customers about innovative commercial models and operational benefits
  • Develop ROI-driven proposals that highlight key operational metrics
  • Collaborate with various internal teams for integrated solutions
  • Engage multiple stakeholder levels within customer organizations
  • Identify opportunities for expansion into broader Dematic solutions

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a rapidly expanding field of warehouse automation
  • Collaboration with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions
  • Access to a diverse range of customer environments
  • Support for travel to customer interactions and industry events
  • Engagement in a complex, enterprise-level selling process
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.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What you’ll do:

  • 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’straditional 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.

  • Maintain disciplined forecasting, pipeline hygiene, and account planning.

  • Target customer environments

    • 3PL and contract logistics

    • Retail and e-commerce fulfillment

    • Grocery and consumer goods

    • Healthcare and pharma distribution

    • Industrial and manufacturing logistics

What we27re 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.

Strong-fit backgrounds

  • 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

Nice to have

  • 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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