Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants Account Manager

Posted 13hrs ago

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Account Manager growing UBE’s polyurethane materials business across North American coatings, adhesives, and sealants markets. Building customer partnerships, developing technical solutions, and driving sales through extensive travel.

Responsibilities:

  • Own key customer relationships and become a trusted technical and commercial partner
  • Drive sales, profitability, new business development, and market growth across the territory
  • Identify unmet customer needs and new market opportunities and turn them into development projects
  • Collaborate with R&D, Applications, and Technical teams to develop solutions for customer challenges
  • Build and expand relationships across a significant portfolio of materials and applications
  • Explore new markets and opportunities through cross-functional growth initiatives
  • Represent the business at customer meetings and industry trade shows
  • Travel approximately 75% across North America

Requirements:

  • BS or higher in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Polymer Science, or business administration degree with past exposure to the chemicals business or similar
  • Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, driven to succeed, and resourceful
  • Leadership ability across diverse groups that may not directly report to the role
  • High degree of ownership and willingness to push and close business against obstacles
  • Good team player and open communicator
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, tight timelines, and aggressive competition
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Approachable by customers and employees with a wide range of backgrounds and skills
  • Willingness to develop solid knowledge of the product portfolio, polyurethane chemistry, processing needs, and pitfalls
  • Ability to recommend specific products and processing
  • Ability to conceptualize new PUD and prepolymer formulations for particular needs
  • Experience or familiarity with polyurethane materials or similar preferred
  • Deep expertise in chemical and materials sales, pricing, and negotiating preferred
  • Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience combined from sales and technical work preferred
  • Successful track record of achieving above-GDP sales growth preferred
  • Additional language skills preferred

Benefits:

  • Equal opportunity employer statement and consideration without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, protected veteran status, or disability