Remote Inside Sales Account Executive - 215k+ per year

Rogers; Centre-du-Québec; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Rogers is seeking a Business Sales Executive to drive profitable growth with existing customers and identify new opportunities across assigned accounts. You will serve as the primary contact for strategic guidance and account growth, ensuring revenue targets and customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities include managing the sales pipeline, cross-selling, upselling, and coordinating with internal teams to maximize profitability while maintaining strong relationships with key decision makers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in industrial chemical sales, preferably in pulp & paper.
• Proven track record of achieving sales targets and growing accounts.
• Strong understanding of business/finance terminology.
• Experience in managing credit limits and receivables.
• Knowledge of paper machine operations and wet end chemistry.
• Ability to develop multi-level relationships across customer functions.

Responsibilities

• Drive year-over-year revenue growth through cross-selling and upselling.
• Handle orders and coordinate with customers and distributors.
• Identify and commercialize new applications within existing and new accounts.
• Maintain relationships to support long-term retention.
• Report forecasts and manage opportunities in the CRM.
• Monitor pipeline health and conduct strategic reviews with stakeholders.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Pulp & Paper

Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry

Bachelor's Degree in Biology

Job description

Last updated: 8 days ago Full-time

The purpose of this role is to drive profitable growth, ensuring customer retention, and strengthening relationships within assigned accounts. This role maintains sales with existing customers and i...

CA$111,360.00 yearly Remote Full-time

Rogers Business Sales Executive.CAD per year On Target Earnings (OTE), based on your performance. Current top performers are earning $215,000+ CAD per year as they are performing above expected stan...

Position Summary

The purpose of this role is to drive profitable growth, ensuring customer retention, and strengthening relationships within assigned accounts. This role maintains sales with existing customers and identifies new opportunities while ensuring operational and financial performance aligns with company objectives. It serves as the primary point of contact for strategic guidance and account growth.

Key Outcomes/Responsibilities

Outcome: Revenue Growth & Account Expansion

Actions:

• Drive year-over-year revenue growth through cross-selling and upselling.
• Handler orders and other requirements by communicating effectively with customers or distributors.
• Identify and commercialize new applications within existing and new customers.
• Prevent attrition and actively maintain relationships to support long-term retention.
• Report sales forecasts using Connected Planning (Ackumen) and manage opportunities in Dynamics.
• Monitor and manage pipeline health, including tracking the number and size of opportunities, conversion rates, and time spent at each stage.
• Drive acquisition of new applications by identifying and securing wins.
• Increase share of wallet across accounts within the region through strategic account development and relationship management.

Outcome: Profitability Optimization

Actions:

• Optimize product mix aligned with customer needs and profitability goals together with technical and functional teams.
• Identify profitability improvement opportunities.
• Execute timely and strategic price adjustments as required by operating company pricing plan.
• Coordinate with other functional teams to substitute or rationalize products to improve cost-efficiency and profitability.

Outcome: Account Retention and Relationship Management

Actions:

• Develop and maintain relationships with key decision makers to enable account penetration.
• Maintain retention rate across assigned accounts, proactively addressing potential attrition risks.
• Conduct regular strategic reviews with key stakeholders to ensure alignment and satisfaction.
• Lead business reviews with customers to assess value delivered and identify opportunities to ensure alignment and satisfaction.

Outcome: Strategic Account Ownership

Actions:

• Implement the 8 Business Management Standards (8BMSs) where applicable
• Act as the key point of contact for customer accounts.
• Build multi-level relationships across customer functions (operations, purchasing, .
• Resolve issues promptly and proactively manage account satisfaction.

Outcome: Financial & Operational Accountability (P&L, MPC, AR)

Actions:

• Meet or exceed sales, GP, and MPC budgets for the assigned area.
• Suggest and manage customer credit limits and oversee receivables.
• Ensure overdue receivables are below the target defined by OpCo management year over year and are resolved as planned.
• Manage costs in line with account profitability and resource allocation plans.
• Support inventory turnover by promoting and selling aged inventory through targeted customer outreach and strategic sales efforts.
• Ensure alignment with contractual obligations.

Outcome: Internal Collaboration

Actions:

• Partner with customer service, planning, lab, R&D, and supply chain to align on goals.
• Collaborate with field service teams to ensure high service standards without owning daily execution where applicable.
• Align internally to support commercial strategies and customer needs.
• Implement and adopt Digital enabling tools (Ackumen and Dynamics)

Outcome: Application Reliability & Service Oversight

Actions:

• Monitor application results and conduct tests for optimal performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve process issues quickly.
• Write and maintain accurate service reports.
• Maintain and manage customer equipment to ensure uptime and reliability.

Outcome: Safety & Risk Mitigation

Actions:

• Adhere to Buckman and customer safety policies, including HCAS and stewardship standards.
• Complete Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) to encourage a culture of safety awareness and accountability.
• Promote and facilitate Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) programs to encourage a culture of safety awareness and accountability.
• Conduct Job Safety Analysis (JSA) to proactively identify and mitigate workplace hazards.

Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree - Pulp & Paper, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or Biology.
• Job Related Experience: 5+ years of industry/paper chemical sales
• Successful selling record, preferably in chemical sales.
• Specific training in pulp and paper science is desirable.
• Demonstrated understanding of business/finance and terminology desirable.
• Working knowledge of paper machine operations, wet end chemistry, pulp mill operations
• Solid understanding of smart digital solutions and can identify customer opportunities.

Competencies

• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
• Plans and Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Customer Focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder