Account Manager

Piedmont National; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Piedmont National Corporation is seeking an Account Manager to assist and support the Sales team in selling products and services. You will assess customer needs, discuss opportunities with internal stakeholders, and help close sales and place orders. General admin duties and potential travel are included.

The role emphasizes maintaining customer relations, processing orders, and providing timely updates and reports to management and customers.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Associate degree helpful.
• 4 years of job experience minimum in customer service or sales support.
• Packaging industry experience beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain positive customer relations and coordinate with various functions within the company to ensure customer requests are handled appropriately.
• Order processing: Process orders, provide confirmation receipts and estimated ship dates, give order status, process credit card orders and RMA’s.
• Sales support: Support regional sales managers with updates to ensure opportunities are kept current and accurate.
• Order Tracking/Status: Provide order status and backlog reports, track key customer activity, update customers as needed and provide continual feedback.
• Answering customer calls/customer interface and taking customer orders.
• Input customer orders into the ERP System and update customers on the status of their orders.
• Liaison between sales and corporate administration, resolving problems and ensuring information to provide to necessary parties in an accurate and timely manner.
• Provides administrative support and assistance.
• Complete all required continuous learning training, including safety, compliance, and job specific.
• Other duties as assigned. Duties and responsibilities may vary slightly depending on branch location

Job description

The Account Manager will be tasked with assisting and supporting Sales team members in selling the company's products and services. In addition, this role will be responsible for assessing the customer’s needs, discussing opportunities with internal stakeholders, and assisting the sales team in closing sales and placing orders. This role also requires general administrative office activities, such as filing, copying, records maintenance, typing, word processing, faxing, mail distribution and may also be responsible for the maintenance of office equipment and supplies. Assists others and the department with daily functions as needed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned and are subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

• Develop and maintain positive customer relations and coordinate with various functions within the company to ensure customer requests are handled appropriately.
• Order processing: Process orders, provide confirmation receipts and estimated ship dates, give order status, process credit card orders and RMA’s.
• Sales support: Support regional sales managers with updates to ensure opportunities are kept current and accurate.
• Order Tracking/Status: Provide order status and backlog reports, track key customer activity, update customers as needed and provide continual feedback.
• Answering customer calls/customer interface and taking customer orders.
• Input customer orders into the ERP System and update customers on the status of their orders.
• Liaison between sales and corporate administration, resolving problems and ensuring information to provide to necessary parties in an accurate and timely manner.
• Provides administrative support and assistance.
• Complete all required continuous learning training, including safety, compliance, and job specific.
• Other duties as assigned. Duties and responsibilities may vary slightly depending on branch location

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills including an ability to communicate with the senior leadership team, customers, and internal/external stakeholders.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Must be a positive team player who is accountable for initiating and monitoring projects through to completion in a challenging and changing environment; includes working with and being dependent upon a broad range and level of personnel.
• Flexibility under competing time requirements and changing deadlines. Excellent focus and a good sense of priorities.
• High energy, versatile, self-directed, with effective analytical and organizational skills.
• Occasional travel may be required.

Education/Experience/Certifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required associate degree helpful.
• 4 years of job experience minimum in customer service or sales support.
• Packaging industry experience beneficial