Full-Time

Key Account Manager

Ocean Optics

Ocean Optics

51-200 employees

Manufactures portable spectrometers and sensing solutions

No salary listed

Remote in UK + 1 more

More locations: Cwmbran, UK

Hybrid

Home-based option with extensive domestic travel.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
CRM
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • Proven experience in key account management or senior account management, ideally within the United Kingdom water, wastewater, utilities, infrastructure, or related technology sectors.
  • A demonstrated track record of managing and growing strategic customer accounts with accountability for revenue growth, margin performance, and long-term account development.
  • Experience working with complex customer organisations and building relationships across commercial, technical, operational, and procurement functions.
  • Strong commercial capability, including account planning, opportunity management, forecasting, and pipeline management.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with business development, technical, operational, and customer support teams to deliver customer outcomes.
  • Ability to provide structured customer and market insight to inform opportunity development, product focus, and commercial decision-making.
  • Ability to operate within a changing or evolving commercial environment and support the implementation of new structures, processes, and ways of working.
  • A full United Kingdom driving licence and willingness to travel as required to support key customer relationships.
Responsibilities
  • Own and manage a defined portfolio of strategic United Kingdom key accounts, with full accountability for revenue growth, margin performance, and long-term account development across clean water and wastewater solutions.
  • Develop and execute structured account plans that align customer objectives with HWM’s commercial strategy, portfolio priorities, and growth targets.
  • Build and maintain strong, multi-level relationships within customer organisations to position HWM as a trusted, long-term strategic partner.
  • Identify, qualify, and progress opportunities within existing accounts to increase customer spend through value-led, solution-based selling.
  • Act as the single point of commercial ownership for assigned accounts, ensuring clarity of accountability and coordinated engagement across HWM.
  • Deliver accurate opportunity pipelines and sales forecasts to support short-, medium-, and longer-term commercial planning.
  • Work closely with the Business Development and Applications team to provide customer, market, and application insight that informs opportunity development, product focus, and strategic prioritisation.
  • Collaborate with Customer Excellence teams to ensure a high-quality, consistent customer experience, including effective communication, timely issue resolution, and ongoing relationship management.
  • Coordinate internal stakeholders across commercial, technical, and delivery functions to ensure effective execution and customer outcomes.
  • Maintain awareness of customer needs, market dynamics, and competitive activity, feeding insight back into the wider commercial and business development functions.

Ocean Optics makes compact spectroscopy hardware and related optical sensing tools. Its flagship products are miniature, portable spectrometers used to measure light across wavelengths for scientists and engineers in fields like chemical analysis, environmental monitoring, and industrial sensing. The devices work by detecting light that passes through or reflects from a sample and translating it into a spectrum—the distribution of light by wavelength—using optical components and a small detector. The company differentiates itself with a modular approach and small, affordable spectrometers that can be integrated into custom systems or handheld devices, enabling researchers to build compact spectroscopic tools rather than relying on large, expensive lab equipment. Ocean Optics' goal is to broaden access to spectral data by providing versatile, scalable sensing solutions that allow users to deploy spectroscopy across a wide range of applications and environments.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Dunedin, Florida

Founded

1989

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What believers are saying

  • Halma reported 8% photonics organic revenue growth in FY26, lifting Ocean Optics demand.
  • Ocean Optics added 2026 conference booths across Europe, Asia, and North America.
  • Bioz engagement rose in 2025, improving citation visibility and lead generation.

What critics are saying

  • Avantes and Hamamatsu pressure pricing and performance in compact spectroscopy markets.
  • Moxchange LLC v. Ocean Optics, Inc. remains an active legal distraction and cost.
  • Distributor dependence on Edmund Optics can weaken direct customer control by 2027.

What makes Ocean Optics unique

  • Ocean Optics invented miniature spectroscopy and still sells modular instruments globally.
  • Halma backed Ocean Optics since 2004, supplying capital, distribution, and operational stability.
  • The Edmund Optics marketplace partnership, announced September 22, 2025, widens customer access.

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Benefits

Performance Bonus

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

1%
Ocean Optics
Aug 12th, 2025
Ocean Optics Partners with Edmund Optics for Global Distribution

ORLANDO, Fla. - (August 14, 2025) - Ocean Optics, a pioneer in modular spectroscopy and a trusted name in optical sensing, is proud to announce a new Supplier Partner relationship with Edmund Optics.

Ocean Optics
Jun 23rd, 2025
Ocean Optics Launches Bioz Tool

To further enhance visibility and engagement, Ocean Optics has also added a Bioz Homepage Banner, ensuring that visitors immediately discover the powerful citation management capabilities available on its website.

EIN News
Sep 8th, 2023
Ocean Insight Announces Richard Curran as New President

Ocean Insight announces Richard Curran as new president.

Ocean Insight
Jun 22nd, 2023
Women in Engineering Day 2023

Ocean Insight has been named the Best Place to Work in both Central Florida and New York state.

Ocean Insight
May 3rd, 2023
Press Release: New Ocean SR series

Orlando, Florida, USA (May 4, 2023) – Ocean Optics, a brand of Ocean Insight, introduces compact, versatile Ocean SR series spectrometers distinguished by their rapid spectral acquisition speed and high signal to noise ratio (SNR) performance.