1300-Account Manager (Specialty Textiles and Fabrics)

SP Associates is recruiting for a  Sales Account Manager to join our team in Kernersville, North Carolina! This position reports to the VP of Sales and is a salary exempt position with a base salary of $70-80,000 depending on experience. This company is a premier designer and manufacturer of specialty textiles and fabrics for a wide range of industries and niche applications. We are dedicated to providing superior-quality materials for OEMs and end-users.

The Account Manager plans, organizes, and controls an assigned product line from conceptual stages through product life cycles to optimize profit and meet marketing, financial, and corporate growth objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Participates in overall product strategy, research and development requirements, development, and manufacturing coordination for new and emerging products.
• Manages day-to-day progress of the product line.
• Collaborates with a wide variety of functional areas such as sales, engineering, manufacturing, and operations for all aspects of the product line to meet customer needs and market opportunities.
• Develops and maintains a prioritized list of customer and market requirements for product.
• Coordinates and develops marketing, sales, and financial plans for product line. Provides financial and technical justification for product selection and definition.
• Conducts market research and identifies and tracks market trends in company's industry. Produces competitive analysis materials comparing product with its key competitors.
• Identifies partnering opportunities for complementary third-party products to broaden company's product line.
• Maintains communications and contacts to collect and analyze technical, financial, schedule, and sales information for product line.
• Travel as needed to meet with customers, trade shows, suppliers, etc.

Requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; with three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• The primary work environment is an office setting, which is quiet.

Benefits

To be discussed during the interview.