Account Manager

NEXHR; Missouri; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NEXHR in Missouri seeks a dedicated sales professional to drive profitable growth in Water Treatment Solutions. You will manage existing accounts, identify new opportunities, and support customers to improve wastewater performance and compliance.

Join a cross-functional team, own the commercial strategy, and lead initiatives to optimize pricing, profitability, and customer relationships for sustained success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Engineering, or Business Administration.
• 4–6 years of sales or application experience in industry.
• Experience with industrial water and wastewater processes.

Responsibilities

• Drive year-over-year revenue growth through cross-selling and upselling.
• 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 opportunities and conversion rates.
• Drive acquisition of new applications by identifying and securing wins.
• Increase share of wallet across accounts within the region through strategic account development.
• Manage orders and communicate with customers or distributors.
• Optimize product mix with teams to improve profitability.
• Identify profitability improvements and price adjustments per pricing plan.
• Coordinate with other teams to improve cost-efficiency.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key decision makers for account penetration.
• Maintain retention across assigned accounts and address attrition risks.
• Conduct strategic reviews and lead business reviews with customers.
• Implement 8BMSs and be the point of contact for accounts.
• Collaborate with service, planning, lab, R&D, and supply chain.
• Implement and adopt Ackumen and Dynamics.

Skills

Sales experience

Industrial processes knowledge

Chemical products industry experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Engineering, or Business Administration

Job description

The purpose of this role is to drive profitable growth, strengthen customer retention, and build strategic relationships within assigned accounts, with a specific focus on Water Treatment Solutions for the Missouri Market. This role manages and grows existing business, identifies and develops new opportunities, and supports customers in improving wastewater treatment performance, compliance, and operational efficiency. It serves as the primary commercial point of contact for account strategy, application growth, and cross-functional alignment while ensuring financial and operational performance supports company objectives.

Key Outcomes/Responsibilities

• Drive year-over-year revenue growth through cross-selling and upselling.
• 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.
• Manage orders and other requirements by communicating effectively with customers or distributors.

Profitability Optimization

• 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.

Account Retention and Relationship Management

• 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.

Strategic Account Ownership

• 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, etc.).
• Resolve issues promptly and proactively manage account satisfaction.

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

• Meet or exceed sales, GP, and MPC budgets for the assigned area.
• Suggest and manage customer credit limits and oversee receivables.
• Ensure overdue receivables is 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.

Internal Collaboration

• 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)

Application Reliability & Service Oversight

• 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.

Safety & Risk Mitigation

• Adhere to 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 Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry or any Engineering area or Business Administration
• Job Experience: 4 - 6 years
• Knowledge of Industrial Processes related to the Industrial Water and Wastewater segment.
• Experience in Sales or application of chemical products in industry