Account Executive

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

The main object and purpose of this position consist in achieving ALC’s sales vision, while promoting safety, quality, awareness and compliance with company policies and maximizing the impact of his/her actions on company sales, prices, competition, and potential customers. The incumbent is responsible for gathering information to develop a market strategy and for managing and planning territory to maximize profitability. The incumbent also writes proposals and negotiates contracts, maintains and increases services to our customers, secures relationships with customers and provides support to the team to achieve objectives.

Hunts for new business: Has a market development strategy and a vision of the competition’s strategy. Locates prospective customers and initiates sales relationships. Develops local markets for new applications. Searches for new areas to compete, sources leads independently.

Manages a territory: Develops business plans and sales strategies for their territory. Plans and organizes activities to generate profitable growth and sustainable results. Manages a sales portfolio > $5M. Promotes sound management by establishing selling prices within company guidelines. Manages accounts and competition. Promotes new applications related to ALC’s products and services. Uses SalesForce to plan, schedule and report on activities with customers and leads.

Develops proposals: Establishes commercial proposals and negotiates contracts, responding to customer needs. Communicates clearly and succinctly. Presents proposals that respond to customer’s needs.

Sells: Identifies the customers’ needs and decision-making structure, culture and goals. Obtains customer’s commitment, finds creative solutions, takes risks, and makes decisions. Collaborates with internal teams to serve the customer.

Ensures customer loyalty: Develops a strategy to secure customer’s loyalty. As the primary contact between the customer and Air Liquide, the Account Executive identifies issues, communicates with all parties, and solves problems. They improve the quality of business relationships and have a long-term perspective.

Collaborates: Understands everybody’s role within the team. Demonstrates sensitivity to the needs and concerns of other team members. Learns from and builds relationships with other team members. Communicates productively with other departments.

Improves Skills: Presents professionally to the customer at the internal and external level by the development of their knowledge of Air Liquide’s value, products, and services, and the processes in which they are used.

Are you a MATCH?

• 2 to 3 years experience in industrial sales
• Diploma: College diploma or bachelor’s degree in the field of application
• Training: Selling skills, Quality System (ISO)
• Knowledge: Computerized systems, MS Office, SalesForce or other CRM tools, services or applications, familiarity with legal contracts and terminology would be an asset.
• Google Apps Suite, metal fabrication, data analysis
• Must hold a valid drivers license

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

About Us

A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health.

Through the passion and diversity of its people, Air Liquide leverages energy and environment transition, changes in healthcare and digitization, and delivers greater value to all its stakeholders.

Join us for a stimulating experience: you’ll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.

Discover what your professional journey at Air Liquide could be here!