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Schneider Electric

Global energy management and automation provider

Senior Solution Sales Manager - Key Accounts

Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeJapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree or higher.
  • At least 5 years of people-management experience.
  • Experience in key account management and sales/account management for large customers.
  • Approximately 5 or more years of proposal or implementation experience with PLC, DCS, MES, or industrial data platforms such as SCADA, Historian, or MES.
  • Customer-facing experience in at least one of the automotive, food and beverage, or chemical industries.
  • Business-level English, equivalent to TOEIC 800 or higher.
  • Ability to understand customer capital-investment decisions and business challenges and develop solutions supporting standardization and deployment across multiple sites.
  • Ability to design and advance platform strategies spanning proof of concept, standard implementation, and rollout to multiple sites.
  • Understanding of manufacturing processes, industry standards, controls, instrumentation, data platforms, or MES.
  • Ability to collaborate with pre-sales and technical teams to design solutions across operational technology and information technology.
  • Willingness to learn about PLC, DCS, MES, and industrial data-platform technologies and translate them into customer value.
  • Commitment to advancing large proposals and long-term business growth.
  • Ability to develop, evaluate, and coach team members and build a high-performing organization.

Responsibilities

  • Design proposals encompassing operational-technology data contextualization and data platforms, higher-level systems, and operational-technology hardware, and continuously participate in customers’ capital-investment decisions.
  • Lead opportunities from proof of concept through standard implementation and rollout to multiple sites, growing small-start projects into large, ongoing businesses.
  • Propose data-platform-centered strategies to automotive customers and advance expansion from digital transformation to hardware and green transformation.
  • Propose standardization of PLC, DCS, and MES for manufacturing customers and develop reference cases that include advanced control.
  • Advance technical specification proposals and spec-in activities for process-equipment original equipment manufacturers, and progress certifications toward mass production.
  • Advance opportunities jointly with the pre-sales team and collaboratively implement industry-standard models.
  • Manage opportunity progress and supporting pipeline rationale against defined milestones.
  • Manage, coach, and develop the sales team and advance performance management.
  • Own the assigned team’s sales, orders, and pipeline targets and maximize organizational results.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience leading large proposals based on standardization and multi-site deployment, including program management for multi-site rollouts.
  • Knowledge of industry standards and controls.
  • Experience designing solutions across operational technology and information technology in collaboration with pre-sales and technical teams.

About the Company

Schneider Electric

Global energy management and automation provider

Schneider Electric is a global specialist in energy management and automation. It helps homes, businesses, and industries run electricity more efficiently by selling electrical products, automation hardware, software, and related services. Its offerings cover electrification, automation, and digitization, and solutions connect devices, collect data, and control systems to optimize energy use in smart industries, resilient infrastructure, and data centers. The company distinguishes itself with a broad, end-to-end portfolio and a worldwide presence in over 100 countries, combining hardware, software, and services to address sustainability and reliability. Its goal is to help people and organizations use energy more efficiently, reduce environmental impact, and improve uptime and reliability.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Rueil-Malmaison, France
Founded
1836

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