Account Executive - Houston, TX

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Account Executive - Houston, TX

Apply locations USA Texas time type Full time posted on Posted 14 Days Ago job requisition id R-17336

At Panduit, Our People Make the Difference. Their unique insights and perspectives fuel our innovation and help our customers discover more and better ways to connect with and for the people they serve. We are looking for people who are curious, insightful, collaborative, and committed to building a sustainable and connected world.

What We Can Offer You

Our Total Rewards Program provides competitive health and financial benefits as well as continuous opportunities to learn, grow, and develop. We are committed to offering our employees flexible work schedules and work from home opportunities to help you thrive. Additionally, we encourage a spirit of continuous learning and promote well-rounded development as part of our commitment to help you realize your professional goals. Panduit recognizes that our employees are key to our success, and we strive to cultivate a diverse and inclusive work environment that strengthens our Company and enables every employee to reach their full potential.

• 3 weeks paid vacation + 5 sick days + 11 holidays + 1 volunteer day
• 100% remote in Houston, TX
• 401K match (no vesting) + profit sharing
• Multiple healthcare options through Blue Cross Blue Shield

What We Are Looking For

The Account Executive is responsible for promoting company product or services and achieving quota. They develop the ability to acquire new accounts, maintain business at legacy accounts, and have a clear understanding of the business process. The Account Executive builds relationships and executes the commercial process within the partner ecosystem. They work independently and look to the manager to help with coaching to strengthen position in an account, leverage for higher level meetings, and provide insight into new accounts that should be penetrated.

What You Will Do

• Continuously scan for prospects to achieve new growth, expand offerings within the account, and populate account pipeline; priority is to find accounts that meet the customer profile and provide repeatable profitable business
• Assess clients, including balance sheet and business health to determine the feasibility of partnering
• Identify and align required resources for pursuit and future solution deployment, and determine scope and nature of the opportunity to determine feasibility in pursuing the deal
• Ensure that product or service value propositions align and resolve customer needs, provide on-demand consultative advice, check the accuracy and utility of recommendations, and avoid making inaccurate statements
• Be the primary client liaison and manage all aspects of the growth process including building awareness of products and solutions
• Position value propositions to meet customer needs and end-user business priorities, communicate key competitive advantages, work with others to ensure appropriate pricing, and manage the milestones essential for timely proposal delivery
• Secure preference for company products and drive customer mindsets from products to solutions
• Capitalize on early wins and customer satisfaction to expand business within the account or by introducing relevant Panduit account management teams
• Develop strategies and plans for managing account pursuit activities
• Prioritize and coordinate opportunity pursuit across multiple accounts to maintain a healthy commercial funnel
• Develop, communicate, and monitor growth forecasts to ensure accuracy
• Expand account penetration by building strong relationships and leveraging them to achieve exposure to business planning
• Ensure that all generated business is referred to chosen partners and this referred business is leveraged either directly or indirectly through the channel accounts to improve discretionary business through the channel
• Provide input to organizational planning, set priorities and expectations, and identify and addresses opportunities and resource gaps

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred
• 2 to 5 years of inside/outside account management experience
• Ability to understand products/solutions within each business unit and key market specific competitors
• Exposure to the account dealing with entry level business influencers
• Basic understanding of the organizational strategy and the value of the partner programs
• Ability to learn deal management and negotiation techniques

We thank all those interested in joining the Panduit team; however only those that complete the online application and meet the minimum job qualifications will be considered for this role.

Panduit is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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About Us

Innovating beyond the ordinary is at the heart of Panduit, driving a passion to connect the world in new and better ways. That passion helps us deliver today’s most powerful, scalable, and profitable physical infrastructure solutions. From increasing the safety and sustainability of our cities, making travel easier, putting new technology into people’s hands more quickly, helping institutions protect and save lives, to enabling our increasingly networked world, Panduit is about building the best connections possible.

As a world-class manufacturer of high-performance network and industrial electrical infrastructure, Panduit helps customers rethink what that infrastructure can do – turning connectivity into a competitive advantage. Headquartered in Tinley Park, IL., USA, our 5,000+ team members work across 112 global locations. Our proven reputation for quality and technology leadership, coupled with a robust partner ecosystem, help support, sustain, and empower business growth in a world becoming more and more connected each day.

Panduit’s Cultural Beliefs –Earn Trust, Be Focused, Own Results, Think Differently, Collaborate, and Simplify– define who we are: a high-performing, global team empowered to create experiences that enable our vision of fueling the best worldwide connections. We believe that when we act in ways that are consistent with these beliefs, we can innovate unrivaled infrastructure solutions for our valued customers and partners.