Sales Account Manager

Sales Account Manager

Job Description

Territory: Eastern Tennessee – Knoxville/Chattanooga/Tri-Cities

Location:  Must reside within the Eastern Tennessee territory; strong preference for Knoxville metro area

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

The Sales Account Manager role at Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP) plays a critical role in driving our regional strategy, delivering on key financial targets, and partnering with customers to deliver best-in-class experiences.

 This is hybrid role that involves inside sales, digital selling as well as field sales depending on the territory and market.

 The ideal candidate for this role embraces an ambitious, consultative and agile mindset, strategically utilizes internal resources and technology to help solve customer challenges, a storyteller who can deliver customer communication in both virtual and non-virtual formats and has an excellent financial and operational acumen.

This individual has had a proven track record of sales success.

 The KCP Sales Account Manager will leverage their experience to lead with empathy and provide solutions while at the same time focusing on what matters most: adding customer value and achieving overall sales goals, growth and profitability objectives in her or his respective region.

Account Managers will sell branded towel, tissue, PPE, and manufactured wiper products of Kleenex®, Scott®, Cottonelle®, KleenGuard, and WypAll ® B2B to manufacturing and other end user markets.

Will prospect and work in conjunction with our network of distributor partners to identify end user needs and create new sales growth for our billion-dollar brands.

 The majority of the sales role will be a combination of face to face and virtual selling to key end user segments through distribution to achieve sales goals.

In this role, you will:


* Expertly use prospecting skills to identify large end users and end user markets


* Build and maintain strategic relationships with distribution partners


* Proactively use digital technology (video, AI, and social me...