Key Account Executive

Kimball Midwest

$65K — $105K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of strategic selling experience required.
  • Ability to travel within the assigned geographic area for customer meetings.
  • Proven track record in cultivating and managing key customer relationships.
  • Strong understanding of market dynamics and customer needs.
  • Familiarity with utilizing sales processes and training programs to meet sales goals.

Responsibilities

  • Cultivate strong relationships with customers and local sales teams, focusing on understanding their business needs.
  • Conduct cold calls to acquire potential large customers and expand business.
  • Plan weekly activities to optimize customer outreach and territory growth.
  • Demonstrate products to potential customers, highlighting value and quality.
  • Meet or exceed sales quotas using company sales strategies and processes.
  • Maintain accurate records of sales activities in company systems.

Benefits

  • Mileage and expense reimbursement for travel-related expenses.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, life, and disability insurance coverage.
  • 401k plan for retirement savings.
  • Deferred compensation plan to enhance long-term financial security.
Full Job Description
Key Account Executive (Hybrid)

As a Key Account Executive, you will focus on obtaining larger or multi-location accounts and partnering with local sales representatives to further develop those accounts.

Compensation & Benefits
  • 1st year compensation plans range from $65,000-$105,000
  • Compensation range includes commissions on sales. The rate of commissions paid varies from 0% to 12%, depending on product, amount and price sold.
  • Mileage and expense reimbursement
  • Medical, dental, life, disability insurance, 401k, and a deferred compensation plan

Responsibilities
  • Relationship Management: Cultivate strong relationships with customers in a designated territory, along with the local sales team, to understand their business needs and identify areas of opportunity. We are a people business at our core, treating both customers and associates with the same respect.
  • Cold Calling & Prospecting: Effectively cold call on potential large customers in the territory to grow a book of business. We focus on being green and growing to continuously open new business.
  • Planning & Priority Setting: Efficiently plans week in advance to prioritize customer stops and territory growth. We plan our growth from the bottom to the top instead of a top-down approach.
  • Market Knowledge: Demonstrate our products to potential customers to show the value and quality of our products. We invest about 80% of our spend in American-made products.
  • Achieve Sales Goals: Meet or exceed sales quotas by following our company's proven sales programs and processes learned in our training workshops. We have a goal to double our sales as a company every five years.
  • Reporting: Maintain accurate records of daily sales activities by inputting information into our systems. We support our customers by reporting back to them our cost-savings ability when supporting and servicing them in the field.

Requirements
  • The ability to move to and from potential or actual customer and associates' locations and company meetings at locations within the assigned geographic area of responsibility while holding the required insurance coverage minimums
  • The execution of an Employment Agreement and/or revised Employment Agreement exhibit(s), all of which were provided to the associate for review prior to execution
  • Minimum 5 years of strategic selling experience

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