Account Executive - On-Highway

at  Cummins Inc

DESCRIPTION

Our culture believes in POWERING YOUR POTENTIAL . We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today’s most innovative thinkers to solve the world’s toughest problems.
We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That’s what #LifeAtCummins is all about.
We are looking for a talented Account executive - On highway to join our team.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

SKILLS

• Sense Making - Through a series of diagnostic and probing questions and research, develops and/or supports an intimate understanding of the customer needs, behaviors, and/or their buying journey. Synthesizes complex information from internal and external resources to deliver tailored solutions for the internal or external customer.
• Account Planning - Identifies objectives to drive execution of business and/or account strategy by reviewing the status relative to where it needs to be and enabling tracking of progress against targets.
• Adapts to target audience - Explains complex topics (significant technical data, subject matter expertise, etc.) in such a way that the target audience (e.g. sales professionals, customers, training vendors, etc.) can understand, retain, and use the information
• Developing Account Strategy - Determines current status of account in terms of relationship, financial, product competitiveness, barriers, quality, and service and defining desired future state by balancing customer requirements and business capabilities in order to define achievable targets aligned with the business strategy.
• Integrates Customer Perspective - Incorporates an understanding of the customers’ perspective on our products and sales efforts to develop sales content that improves our ability to meet their needs and increase revenue.
• Sales Forecasting - Collects and assesses customer data from internal and external sources; compares against historical data to determine useful inputs and create a forecast of future consumption patterns.
• Sales Pipeline Management - Plans proactively for successful execution of account/territory-level sales strategies and plans based on current pipeline; evaluates pipeline health (size, contents, progress); adjusts sales strategy, plans, or high impact activities accordingly; as applicable coaches sellers in order to achieve sales objectives.
• Articulating Value Proposition - Interprets internal and external customer needs based on relevant application; explains and demonstrates products, solutions, and services to distinguish strengths and weaknesses to meet customer’s specific needs to differentiate against competition.
• Pricing Strategy - Develops prices by aligning and building consensus with key stakeholders across functions to achieve business targets.
• Channel Awareness - Explains and contextualizes industry structure, dynamics, and path to market in order to advance organizational goals.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Ensures accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.

EDUCATION, LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS

• College, university, or equivalent degree in marketing, sales, technical or a related subject or equivalent industry experience required.This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

EXPERIENCE

• Significant level of relevant work experience, including previous customer and/or product experience required. Purchasing/commercial contract negotiation preferred.Flexibility in working hours
• Level of technical skills on the technologies offered by Cummins
• Comfortable expressing yourself clearly in front of a large audience (French & English)
• Ease of working with others, is a team player
• Implication in the various trucking associations
• Other tasks may apply

Please refer the Job description for details