Strategic Account Director
Cambridge Design Partnership
Strategic Account Director
Cambridge Design Partnership
Technology and product design partner
Cambridge Design Partnership · Boston, United States (Remote) · — · Posted 2026-10-23
Workplace: remote
Department: Commercial
Cambridge Design Partnership is an employee-owned product and innovation consultancy operating internationally with offices in North Carolina and Cambridge (UK). Our scientists, engineers, designers and commercial teams work together to solve complex problems for leading businesses across the Consumer and Med-tech markets.
We are now seeking a Strategic Account Director to manage our high value client accounts in the Consumer market across a designated territory. You will engage client companies that require an external engineering partner to accelerate new product development from concept through commercialization.
The work we do for clients includes the development of new products, technical innovation, and engineering consulting. Our clients are market leaders across food and beverages, home care, personal care, personal hygiene, health and beauty. We help them innovate across fast moving product formats as well as durable appliances and devices.
This is a senior role, responsible for the commercial growth, strategic development and long-term value of key accounts. You will direct the account strategy, and act as trusted partner to your clients. The role demands a proactive, growth mindset with a focus on long-term client partnership over transactional sales.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Identify and progress qualified opportunities for new project activity to ensure predictable revenue growth
Expand relationships up and across the client organisations to reduce single-thread risk
Develop and maintain structured stakeholder maps and engagement plans across technical, operational, procurement and executive stakeholders
Actively contribute to the evolution of CDP’s markets and service strategy by translating account management insight into actionable recommendations
Share learning and best practice across accounts to raise overall performance
To succeed in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:
Essential:
Desirable:
We’re an employee‑owned innovation partner with a growing US team. We bring ideas to life-from insight to engineering to pilot manufacture—across consumer and healthcare.
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Cambridge Design Partnership helps large companies turn market, technical, and commercial insights into new products and services. It combines engineers, scientists, designers, and strategists in a holistic, evidence-based process to explore opportunities, create concepts, prototype, test, and refine innovations. The firm serves healthcare, consumer, energy, and industrial sectors, emphasizing cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver products that can grow a business and compete effectively. Unlike firms that focus on a single discipline, CDP integrates strategy, technology, design, and feasibility to translate ideas into market-ready solutions. The company’s goal is to enable client growth and competitive advantage by delivering innovations that succeed across technical, market, and commercial dimensions.
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