Key Account Executive - Austin, TX

Kimball Midwest; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, life, disability insurance

401k and deferred compensation plan

Mileage and expense reimbursement

Job summary

Kimball Midwest, located in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Key Account Executive. This hybrid role focuses on obtaining larger accounts and partnering with local sales representatives. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of strategic selling experience.

The position offers compensation ranging from $65,000-$105,000, along with benefits including medical insurance and a 401k plan. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong relationship management and cold calling skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of strategic selling experience.
• Ability to travel within assigned geographic area while holding required insurance coverage.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate strong relationships with customers and local sales team.
• Effectively cold call potential large customers to grow business.
• Plan territory growth and prioritize customer stops.
• Demonstrate product value to potential customers.
• Meet or exceed sales quotas through proven sales programs.
• Maintain accurate records of daily sales activities.

Skills

Strategic Selling

Relationship Management

Cold Calling

Market Knowledge

Job description

Key Account Executive (Hybrid)

As a Key Account Executive, you will focus on obtaining larger or multi-location accounts and partnering with local sales representatives to further develop those accounts.

Compensation & Benefits

• 1st year compensation plans range from $65,000-$105,000
• Compensation range includes commissions on sales. The rate of commissions paid varies from 0% to 12%, depending on product, amount and price sold.
• Mileage and expense reimbursement
• Medical, dental, life, disability insurance, 401k, and a deferred compensation plan

Responsibilities

• Relationship Management: Cultivate strong relationships with customers in a designated territory, along with the local sales team, to understand their business needs and identify areas of opportunity. We are a people business at our core, treating both customers and associates with the same respect.
• Cold Calling & Prospecting: Effectively cold call on potential large customers in the territory to grow a book of business. We focus on being green and growing to continuously open new business.
• Planning & Priority Setting: Efficiently plans week in advance to prioritize customer stops and territory growth. We plan our growth from the bottom to the top instead of a top-down approach.
• Market Knowledge: Demonstrate our products to potential customers to show the value and quality of our products. We invest about 80% of our spend in American-made products.
• Achieve Sales Goals: Meet or exceed sales quotas by following our company's proven sales programs and processes learned in our training workshops. We have a goal to double our sales as a company every five years.
• Reporting: Maintain accurate records of daily sales activities by inputting information into our systems. We support our customers by reporting back to them our cost-savings ability when supporting and servicing them in the field.

Requirements

• The ability to move to and from potential or actual customer and associates' locations and company meetings at locations within the assigned geographic area of responsibility while holding the required insurance coverage minimums
• The execution of an Employment Agreement and/or revised Employment Agreement exhibit(s), all of which were provided to the associate for review prior to execution
• Minimum 5 years of strategic selling experience

Kimball Midwest is a national distributor of maintenance, repair, and operations products. For over 100 years, we have been family owned and operated offering over 55,000 products to our customers. We have grown from $1 million in sales in 1983 to more than $500 million today.

Kimball Midwest is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We participate in E-Verify. Participamos en E-Verify.