Jennair Luxury Key Account Manager (Southern California)

Requisition ID: 62421
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This role in summary
JennAir, the premier luxury brand of Whirlpool Corporation, is seeking qualified candidates for a JennAir Luxury Key Account Manager in the Southern California market. In this role, you will be a part of a dynamic, passionate, and pioneering team working to grow the JennAir Brand in the luxury appliance industry.
We are pursuing a leader who excels at being comfortable with ambiguity, is highly-collaborative, and results-oriented. The successful candidate will play a critical role in shaping the future of the business in their market.
The JennAir Luxury Key Account Manager is part of a specialized sales force exclusively focused on the growth of the JennAir Brand in their market. The successful candidate will be tasked with applying a multi-faceted approach in delivering business objectives through:
Collaboration with our Key Accounts in both the retail and builder segments.
Building relationships and collaborating with designers, architects, and influencers in their regional and local market.
Additionally, the Key Account Manager is responsible for end-to-end delivery including strategy, execution, and achieving revenue/margin targets. While this is a regional and remote position with travel as needed to the client's site(s), the candidate will ideally live in the Southern California Market.
Your responsibilities will include

• Development and execution of retail strategies with trade customers to maximize revenue, margin, and market share goals for the JennAir brand.
• Responsibility for developing and building a robust pipeline of new business within the builder segment of the local markets.
• Effectively managing day-to-day activities with key trade customers including operations, forecasting, merchandising, displays, training, marketing, contract pipeline, and more
• Masterfully partner with our cross-functional partners (e.g. brand, marketing, product, and mass brand sales team) to find creative ways to win in the marketplace.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of experience in account management

Preferred skills and experiences

• Experience working in a cross-functional environment (face to face & remote); thrives in a team environment and promotes positive team spirit, reinforcement, and engagement.
• Deep understanding of the luxury landscape (including beyond appliances).
• Challenges continuously to achieve excellence and drive transformation.
• Aligned with the culture, mission, and principles of the team.
• Excellent communication skills and executive presence.
• Simplifies the complex and sees "around the corner".
• Get things done through excellent collaboration.
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What we offer
Compensation: $81,700 - $98,450- + Sales Commission
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