Senior Strategic Sales Account Manager
Location: Franklin, IN 46131
Salary: $60,000–$80,000 per year, depending on experience
Job Type: Full-Time | Direct Hire
Senior Strategic Sales Account Manager
Build Relationships. Drive Growth. Make an Impact.
First Call Direct Hire is seeking an experienced Senior Strategic Sales Account Manager for a growing manufacturing organization in Franklin, Indiana.
This is an excellent opportunity for a strategic, relationship-driven sales professional who enjoys developing key customer accounts, identifying new business opportunities, negotiating commercial agreements, and partnering with internal teams to drive profitable growth.
The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated and strategic sales professional with the ability to build trusted customer relationships, understand business needs, identify growth opportunities, and communicate effectively at all levels of an organization.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned strategic customer accounts.
- Develop and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key customer contacts and decision-makers.
- Identify and pursue new sales and growth opportunities within existing and prospective accounts.
- Develop and execute strategic account plans aligned with company objectives.
- Partner with sales leadership to establish account goals, strategies, and growth initiatives.
- Develop pursuit strategies for new business opportunities and support the RFQ process.
- Negotiate pricing, terms, contracts, and other commercial conditions with customers.
- Monitor account profitability and develop action plans to improve performance when necessary.
- Forecast and track sales activity, opportunities, account performance, and key metrics.
- Gather and communicate the Voice of the Customer throughout the organization.
- Coordinate internal resources across Sales, Manufacturing, Production Control, Engineering, and other departments to meet customer expectations.
- Partner with internal sales support teams on customer satisfaction, problem resolution, RFQs, account reviews, and other customer-driven activities.
- Support sales improvement initiatives, reporting, surveys, and market information gathering.
- Assist with customer compliance requests, account information, and collection of past-due accounts when necessary.
- Travel domestically and internationally as required to support customers and business needs.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of 7 years of related sales experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Manufacturing or related industry experience strongly preferred.
- Proven experience developing and managing strategic customer relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and develop new business opportunities.
- Strong communication, negotiation, presentation, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders at all levels, including executive leadership.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret sales performance, profitability, and market trends.
- Understanding of standard business and financial fundamentals.
- Ability to manage multiple accounts, projects, and priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
- Highly self-motivated, organized, and capable of working independently.
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
This position offers the opportunity to take ownership of strategic customer relationships while directly influencing business growth. You'll work cross-functionally with key areas of the organization and play an important role in developing new opportunities, strengthening customer partnerships, and driving long-term account success.
Salary: $60,000–$80,000 per year, depending on experience
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply today for confidential consideration.
First Call Direct Hire is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
