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Global Key Account Manager Medical

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on managing global key accounts within Henkel's Adhesive Technologies business unit. You will work to define account strategies, foster long-term relationships, and drive business development initiatives that align with customer needs and corporate objectives.

Qualifications

  • Experience in account management or business development in a global context.
  • Strong negotiation skills and contract management experience.
  • Ability to analyze financial KPIs and advocate for key account needs.
  • Preferred: Experience in driving sustainability initiatives.
  • Preferred: Proficiency in English; additional languages

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute global account strategy with regional teams.
  • Identify business opportunities and steer business development budgets.
  • Develop and maintain sustainable relationships with key accounts and executives.
  • Implement new customer acquisition plans and develop customer-specific success metrics.

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Negotiation
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Henkel

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  • 10,001+
Henkel operates worldwide with leading innovations, brands and technologies in two business areas: Adhesive Technologies and Consumer Brands. Founded in 1876, Henkel looks back on more than 145 years of success. The company holds leading positions with its two business units in both industrial and consumer businesses thanks to strong brands, innovations and technologies such as Persil, Schwarzkopf and Loctite. Henkel, headquartered in Düsseldorf / Germany, counts among the most internationally aligned German-based companies in the global marketplace. Our company purpose expresses what unites us all at Henkel: Pioneers at heart for the good of generations. We are a diverse team of around 48,000 colleagues worldwide, striving to enrich and improve life every day through our products, services, and solutions. Our Purpose is built from our roots and carries a long-standing legacy of innovation, responsibility, and sustainability into the future. Our shared values and Leadership Commitments guide our decisions and actions every day. Imprint: http://www.henkel.com/imprint Data Privacy: https://www.henkel.com/data-protection-statement-social-media

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Job description

About this Position

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow.  

This position is with our Adhesive Technologies business unit – where we empower our people to transform industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.   

What you´ll do

  • Defines and executes global account strategy with regional teams, including annual
    revenue plan and target plan
  • Identifies business opportunities, steers business development budgets for agreed
  • accounts and defined objectives
  • Translates customer’s strategy and priorities into a joint innovation roadmap & drive
    sustainability initiatives to meet corp. 
  • Drives and rolls-out customer approvals and pushes upstream solution selling
  • Develops and maintains sustainable and long-term relationships with key accounts, key
    executives and sponsors
  • Implements new customer acquisition plans & develops customer-specific success
    metrics beyond revenue (e.g., innovation impact)
  • Defines account-specific pricing, negotiates contracts, ensures fulfillment of
    commitments and implementation of commercial poli
  • Optimizes sales processes and leads junior KAMs
  • Develops and maintains strong executive and cross-functional relationships at HQ and
    key locations
  • Steers and supports internal resources to execute account strategy
  • Delivers account targets KP/TP OSG and PC & leads cross-functional crisis response for
    high-priority account disruptions
  • Analyzes financial KPIs and proactively steers & advocates for key account needs in

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