Description
At Bayer, we're seeking a Strategic Account Manager II to play a critical role in driving business growth and developing strong relationships with key clients. This position will be responsible for planning and implementing sales strategies for specific major accounts, cultivating relationships, and identifying opportunities through medium to long-term planning.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building effective business relationships across large divisions of organizations, with a strong understanding of business acumen, strategic thinking, negotiation skills, and leadership. They will be able to balance the Bayer and customer needs to achieve mutually beneficial business results.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Ownership and accountability of Regional and Divisional relationship, or facilitating headquarter-level relationships focused in either CP or S&T and Bayer business results.
- Developing and implementing collaborative approaches that maximize usage of Bayer's portfolio of CP, Seed Growth, and Climate offerings when relevant, while balancing account (Bayer-sourced) proprietary brands.
- Managing forecasting, budgets, inventory, and multi-year agreements.
- Collaborating with Bayer Account Managers, Marketing, Product Management, and Customer Operations to understand business needs and trends, while gaining support for the account.
- Working closely with Bayer Business Unit Leads to align goals and expectations and coordinate push and pull strategies and complementary brand approaches.
The successful candidate will have a high degree of leadership and collaboration existing between Bayer internal field teams and the account, with strong communication and influencing skills to drive execution of the account plans with stakeholders.
In return, Bayer offers a competitive salary range of $139,040.00 - $208,560.00, with additional compensation including a bonus or commission (if relevant), as well as health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, and other benefits.