Account Manager

Role Overview

• Manages the sales process and drives profitable sales growth within an assigned sales territory to both existing and new Airgas customers.
• Responsible for meeting and exceeding both corporate and regional objectives for profitable sales growth, A/R management, and customer retention within their assigned territory.
• Cultivates relationships and provides solutions to both existing and new Airgas customers.
• Utilizes technology to enhance productivity.
• Develops and executes sales plans utilizing Airgas' sales directives and guidelines in order to service existing accounts, obtain orders, and establish new accounts.
• Qualifies and pursues sales leads.
• Engages customers by linking the customer's business priorities to the Airgas value proposition.
• Prepares sales proposals by quoting pricing, establishing credit terms, and estimated date of delivery to customer based on knowledge of Airgas' production/delivery schedules and logistics.
• Keeps current with industry insights, current Airgas product mixes, monitors competition by gathering current relevant marketplace intelligence including information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, and merchandising techniques.
• Partners with internal resources to accomplish growth objectives.
• Establishes and maintains clear and consistent lines of communication with internal departments relative to customer successes, customer opportunities, new customer developments and other customer specific information.
• Maintains and submits sales reports as required by District Manager through SAP.
• Actively reviews and manages existing customer Accounts Receivable balances to help minimize Airgas working capital investment and financial risk.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Proven success using a consultative sales approach providing multiple layers of value to a customer to establish a mix sales solutions and products
• Proven success of using their deep knowledge of customer's business, current macro and microeconomic trends, industry trends, and potential new business opportunities.
• Must have excellent organizational, written and oral communication, and presentation skills that utilize current technology.
• Self-starter; self-motivated, operates with a sense of urgency; ability to work and succeed independently.
• Reliable transportation, current driver's license, minimum liability insurance as required by state of vehicle registration.
• Minimum of 3 years of prior outside business-to-business sales experience to include proven experience and success in solution-selling concepts and a demonstrated history of managing customers throughout a defined sales territory.
• Familiarity with industrial and specialty gases, industrial gas / welding supply sales a plus.

Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision plans
• short-term and long-term disability
• life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• pre-tax commuter transportation benefit
• parental leave
• vacation
• sick time
• floating holidays
• jury duty and funeral/bereavement leave
• paid holidays for all eligible full-time employees
• 401k plan with company matching funds
• tuition reimbursement
• discounted college tuition for eligible employees’ dependents
• Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children