Technical Key Account Manager (all gender)
Hard / Austria
Full time
Project Management
What you will enjoy doing
- Own and actively lead the global technical relationship with assigned Strategic Key Customers
- Build strong relationships across customer technical and development organizations
- Technical ownership of request for quotations, ensuring technical feasibility, competitiveness and customer-focused solutions
- Understand customer technology roadmaps and strategic priorities
- Identify business opportunities and future business challenges
- Partner closely with the Global Key Account Manager to translate customer strategies into growth opportunities
- Escalation handling for technical topics in alignment with Global Key Account Manager
- Coordinate and connect ALPLA functions including Product Development, Innovation Management, Recycling, Operations and Technical Centers
- Develop and align global customer guidelines and technical standards
- Lead customer workshops
- Represent ALPLA in high-level technical discussions and strategic customer meetings
- Global overview of customer project portfolio
What makes you great
- Strong technical background (Product Development, Engineering, Operations or Packaging), experience in the rigid plastics industry is preferred
- Experience in engaging with customers
- Proactive, self-driven and structured working style
- Able to connect customer strategy and business opportunities with ALPLA technical capabilities
- Entrepreneurial mindset and passion for building long-term customer partnerships
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken. German language skills are considered as an advantage
- Willingness to travel frequently
What you can expect working with us
- Be a part of a global family-owned enterprise
- A unique opportunity to shape and build strategic customer partnerships on a global scale
- High visibility across customers, management and key decision-makers within ALPLA
- A role where technical expertise, commercial thinking and leadership come together
- Your performance is recognized: we invest in your growth with a wide range of development opportunities through the ALPLA Academy
- ALPLA Kids full-day childcare for children aged 15 months to 6 years
- Stay fit and healthy with the professional training offered by ALPLAsports
Legally mandatory note: In line with the minimum salary stipulated in the collective agreement, the actual salary for this position is based on professional qualifications and experience.
ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG Allmendstraße 81 6971 Hard / Austria