Senior Account Manager - Flexible Automation - West Region

Kion Group AG

$92K — $135K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of success in enterprise B2B sales or business development.
  • Experience in selling warehouse automation technologies like AMRs or AGVs.
  • Comfortable with consultative and value-based selling in complex environments.
  • Skilled at building business cases and communicating ROI to diverse stakeholders.
  • Strong communication, negotiation, and account planning skills.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites frequently.
  • Experience with subscription or recurring revenue commercial models.

Responsibilities

  • Build and grow the pipeline for Flexible Automation solutions.
  • Lead complex sales cycles from discovery to close with customers.
  • Position and promote Dematic's Flexible Automation product portfolio.
  • Help customers understand and leverage innovative commercial models.
  • Develop ROI-driven proposals based on operational efficiencies.
  • Collaborate with regional account teams and engineering to deliver solutions.
  • Engage with various stakeholder roles within customer organizations.

Benefits

  • Remote work option in the Western US near a major airport.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunity to influence and modernize warehouse automation solutions.
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$92,625 - $135,850 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 Western 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 Dematics 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 Dematicstraditional 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 We Are looking For:

  • 8+ 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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