Role Overview
This role is ideal for someone who combines operational excellence with a consultative, growth-oriented mindset who enjoys managing customers and strategic farming to grow customer accounts. The Account Manager develops a deep understanding of each customers manufacturing footprint, supply chain strategy, and other applicable business priorities — then proactively expands SCRGs impact through staffing, consulting, and relevant improvement initiatives.
In addition to managing ongoing engagements, the Account Manager identifies opportunities for:
- Expanded use of specialized engineering and supply chain talent
- New programs, sites, or regions
- Supply chain relocation, diversification, and optimization projects
- Long-term partnerships tied to customer growth
- Mitigate and minimize SCRGs risk exposure due to pending changes in customers business plans
Candidate Characteristics:
The ideal candidate is strategic, organized, detail-oriented, and highly proactive, with the ability to operate across cultures and time zones. They are comfortable working directly with customers, collaborating with global operations teams, and balancing near-term execution with long-term account growth.
This role requires:
- Comfort working with minimal direction
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Financial and analytical aptitude (forecasts, margin, utilization, and billing awareness)
- Flexibility to accommodate Asia morning and/or evening meetings
- Interest in or experience with hardware manufacturing, engineering, or supply chain operations.
Primary Responsibilities
Strategic Account Ownership & Growth
- Own end-to-end relationships for assigned accounts, serving as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor.
- Develop deep customer knowledge across stakeholders, programs, geographies, and manufacturing sites.
- Proactively Identify and execute opportunities to expand account penetration, including additional roles, programs, locations, and service offerings.
- Partner with Sales to drive account expansion strategies while maintaining focus on retention and long-term value.
Staffing & Consulting Delivery
- Facilitate staffing and consulting solutions for customers hardware manufacturing and supply chain challenges in collaboration with global operations teams.
- Ensure recruiting, onboarding, and workforce alignment with customer requirements and processes.
- Support and manage supply chain relocation, diversification, and improvement initiatives.
- Translate customer needs into clear deliverables for offshore and internal operations teams.
Operational Excellence
- Oversee project setup, tracking, and ongoing management within internal systems (e.g., CRM, ATS, resource management, reporting tools).
- Proactively resolve client issues, staffing challenges, and operational risks.
- Coordinate closely with internal teams to ensure alignment with contracts, Statements of Work (SOWs), objectives, and deliverables.
- Forecast and track key account metrics including revenue, utilization, renewals, and expansions.
- Support contract management for existing customers, including scope definition, pricing, renewals, and amendments.
- Provide customer quotes and ensure PO alignment with SOWs.
- Manage PO validation, funding, tracking, and discrepancy resolution.
- Partner with Finance to support billing accuracy, AR follow-up, and customer financial inquiries.
- Lead or support Customer Surveys and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) focused on value delivered, outcomes achieved, and future opportunities.
- Collect, record and report regularly on the Voice of the Customer, and ensure customer feedback informs delivery, improvement, and growth strategies.
Leadership & Team Development
- Directly manage, coach, and develop the Account Management Support team members sometimes known as Customer Relationship Coordinator, ensuring alignment with account strategies, customer expectations, and operational priorities.
- Clearly define roles, responsibilities, workflows, and decision rights between the Account Manager and the Customer Relationship Coordinator to maximize efficiency, accountability, and scalability.
- Ensure the Customer Relationship Coordinator is well-trained, empowered, and accountable to independently manage day-to-day execution, including:
- Administrative and system updates across CRM, ATS, resource management, and reporting tools
- Coordination of staffing, onboarding, and operational documentation
- Tracking and maintenance of account data, metrics, and reporting
- Support for PO validation, tracking, and documentation
- Preparation of materials for QBRs, customer meetings, and internal reviews
- Provide ongoing feedback, coaching, and performance management to build capability, consistency, and professional growth within the support role.
- Act as the escalation point for complex customer, operational, or financial issues while enabling the coordinator to handle routine matters autonomously.
- Foster a collaborative, high-accountability team culture that supports excellent customer experience and sustainable account growth.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelors degree required.
- 2-4 years of experience in Account Management, Program Management, Project Management, or related roles.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality results under tight timelines.
- Financial and analytical competence; comfort working with metrics, forecasts, and spreadsheets.
- Relationship-driven mindset with the ability to build trust and credibility with clients.
- Proficiency with MS 365 tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).
- English fluency required; additional languages a plus (Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Thai).
- Willingness and flexibility to work across global time zones.
- Remote / home office setting
- Global collaboration with customers and internal teams
Values, Core Competencies, and Behaviors
- Customer Focus: The drive to discover and meet the needs of customers (either internal or external).
- Sense of Urgency: A bias for taking action - spontaneous recognition of problems and opportunities.
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: The fundamental belief in one's ability to successfully take on new and difficult challenges, question the status quo, and take risks.
- Results Orientation: The ability and drive to achieve results and goals in the short and long term.
- Continuous Improvement: The ability to develop and implement creative solutions to systems and processes.
- Collaboration: Works effectively across Sales, Operations, Finance, and cross-functional teams.
- Innovation: Embraces new ideas and approaches to solving customer challenges.
- Strategic Thinking: Balances execution with long-term account growth and value creation.
- Adaptability: Thrives in a dynamic, growing environment with ambiguity and change..