Account Manager

Avient Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Avient Corporation in Houston, TX is seeking an Account Manager to drive profitable growth by targeting potential customers aligned with our specialization platform. You will forecast annual objectives for sales, margins and volume growth while selling at all management levels and building strong customer relationships.

The role requires the ability to solve customer problems with Avient solutions, collaborate across regional teams, and travel up to 70% to support strategic accounts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of successful sales experience in the plastics, packaging, or related industry.
• Broad knowledge of materials, products, and solutions within the plastic industry.
• Experience using Salesforce or similar CRM platforms preferred.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 70%, including overnight travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop profitable growth by targeting potential customers aligned with the specialization platform.
• Forecast annual objectives for sales, margins and volume growth.
• Sell at all levels of management and build relationships to win and retain business.
• Develop contact matrices and establish relationships with key decision makers.
• Create and manage sales plans, budgets and account development strategies.
• Coordinate with regional sales teams and technical areas to drive growth.
• Maintain CRM data, track progress, and monitor competitive activity.

Skills

Sales experience

CRM experience

Materials industry knowledge

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

The Account Manager is responsible for developing profitable growth. Primary focus will be development of potential target customers based on a specialization platform. Includes forecasting annual objectives for sales, margins and volume growth. Expectations include the ability to sell at all levels of management and build relationships that ensure Avient will continue to get the first and last look. Individual must have the ability to assist customers in problem solving to deliver solutions, bring energy, enthusiasm and professionalism to their daily routines. This role requires the individual to perform the function independently with little to no direction and oversight, and effectively interact and influence at the managerial peer level. Up to 75% travel is required.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

The purpose of the Sales Function is to deliver:

• Profitable revenue growth, including robust new business development.
• Achieve stated gross margin targets as a percentage of sales.
• Approach the sales process with a high degree of professionalism and effectiveness by successful utilization of customer centric selling skills and tools, such as use of scorecards, business reviews, EVE tools, high/wide/deep, 5 warning signs, prospecting & new account calls, development of a robust sales funnel, collecting ARs, avoidance of bad debts, cross selling, and effective CRM system management.
• Establish, track, and close new business targets consistent with short- and long-term objectives at designated accounts within the territory.
• Develop contact matrix and establish strong relationships with key decision makers and project facilitators.
• Prospecting and cold calling.
• Develop, execute and manage sales plans, sales budgets, and expense budgets.
• Establish account development plans and network resources up, down and across both the customer's organization and Avient.
• Deliver the planned results (AOP).
• Develop account relationships, identify opportunities and capture service opportunities at strategic accounts within assigned geography or industry.
• Understand key players, applications, requirements, trends, and needs as well as Avient's potential and share within the targeted industry. Become an industry and product expert to leverage successes across the industry.
• Coordinate closely with regional sales teams as well as collaborating with the technical area as necessary to accelerate and drive profitable growth through solutions selling to targeted accounts.
• Establish a linkage between the customer's business strategy and Avient's capabilities.
• Monitor the competition to better understand issues and threats and develop plans to eliminate barriers.
• Implement Avient's, pricing and market strategies as well as business practices. Negotiate customer contracts and value packages to insure an acceptable return on Avient resources invested.
• Participate in strategy development, help position the business and develop the offer. Assist in defining the target markets, and commercial strategy.
• Develop written Account Plans for top three strategic accounts including metrics to define annualized sales potential at each account.
• Manage strategic relationships, cultivate new alliances, and monitor competitive activity.
• Create and maintain CRM data and sales statistics as required.

Scope

Personnel: Individual contributor.

Budget: None.

Sales Revenue: Territory specific.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of successful sales experience in the plastics, packaging, or related industry, with a proven track record of achieving results.
• Broad knowledge of materials, products, and solutions within the plastic industry.
• Experience using Salesforce or similar CRM platforms preferred.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 70%, including overnight travel as needed.

Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.

Innovation goes far beyond materials science; it's powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you're a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you'll find your place at Avient.

Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!

We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self, a leader of others, or a leader of the business.

By playing to win, acting customer centric, driving innovation and profitable growth, collaborating seamlessly across Avient, and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avient's strategic goals, to meet our customer needs, and to accomplish your career goals.

At Avient, we believe a wide variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person's qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.

Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran's status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application, please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing, [e-mail].