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Strategic Account Manager
Location: Oldbury
Salary: Competitive, from £45,000 depending on experience. There is flexibility for the right candidate, so if you feel this opportunity could be a good fit, we’d be keen to have a conversation.
Are you an experienced Account Manager with a strong understanding of the manufacturing industry, looking for a role where you can genuinely take ownership, influence growth and build something for the long term?
Hawk 3 Talent Solutions are working with a successful manufacturing business in Oldbury to recruit a Strategic Account Manager into their growing commercial team.
About the Role
This is a newly created position for someone who is driven, commercially minded and confident taking accountability for a diverse portfolio of customers.
- Manage relationships across around 250 clients, ranging from straightforward day-to-day queries around timelines and deliveries through to more complex conversations around products, technical requirements and tailored solutions.
- Understand customer businesses, challenges and future requirements.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen relationships, increase customer value and grow the accounts you manage, while also developing new opportunities with businesses across the wider sector.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of a diverse portfolio of approximately 250 customers.
- Build strong, long-term relationships with existing clients through regular face-to-face meetings.
- Become a trusted point of contact and a genuine partner to your customers.
- Identify opportunities to grow existing accounts and develop additional business.
- Manage everything from straightforward customer queries through to complex product and solution discussions.
- Work closely with internal teams including Sales, Operations, Quality, Project Management and Finance.
- Take accountability for customer issues, ensuring they are followed through to resolution.
- Prepare quotations, RFQs and other commercial documentation.
- Develop a strong understanding of the company's products, services and manufacturing processes.
- Contribute to the wider commercial strategy and continued growth of the business.
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What We're Looking For
This role would suit someone who is already experienced in Account Management, Client Management or Commercial Sales within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Experience within manufacturing, engineering or another technical/industrial environment is essential. Experience within paint, coatings, plastics, injection moulding, surface finishing or a related sector would be particularly advantageous.
- Commercially aware, with a genuine interest in growing customer relationships.
- Driven and ambitious, with the confidence to take ownership.
- Comfortable managing a large and diverse customer portfolio.
- A strong communicator who can build relationships at different levels.
- Proactive and solutions-focused rather than simply reactive.
- Highly organised, accountable and able to manage competing priorities.
- Confident working collaboratively across different departments.
- Comfortable discussing products, solutions and customer requirements.
- Able to travel to customer sites when required, with a full driving licence and access to your own vehicle.
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Why Join Us?
- Join an established team of Account Managers, but this is a new role with a clear focus on strategic account development and long-term growth.
- Work closely with the Commercial Director, giving you genuine exposure to the wider commercial strategy of the business.
- Strong track record of progression within the organisation. The Commercial Director herself progressed from Account Manager to her current position within eight years, so this is a business that genuinely invests in people who demonstrate drive, ownership and ambition.
- Build a career rather than simply take your next job.
Ready to take the next step?
If you’re an experienced manufacturing Account Manager who wants more ownership, more commercial influence and a clear route to progress, we’d love to hear from you.
This is an opportunity to join a successful business at an exciting point in its growth and become a key part of its future commercial success.
Apply today through Hawk 3 Talent Solutions.
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