Strategic Account Director

Are you ready for a change? At GS1 US, employees at every level play a vital role and provide a meaningful voice on issues that affect consumers across the country.  We are a small company with a world-class culture. We make a huge impact on the way the world does business.

 

What is in it for you: 

 

As a Strategic Account Director at GS1 US, you have the opportunity to join a dynamic organization that is constantly innovating and never stagnant. You will formulate, execute, and oversee aligned account strategies with the objective of cultivating robust, extensive, and enduring relationships with identified accounts. The primary aim is to align account and GS1 US strategies, secure subscription renewals, upgrades, and substantial new business revenue gains. 

 

In return you’ll be rewarded with great pay and benefits in a hybrid work culture. You’ll work at a high-performance company with a world-class culture that invests in its employees. We don’t just say culture is important to us, we have the data to back it up.

 

We are currently recruiting for this position, which offers a salary range of $125,000 to $155,000.

 

This position qualifies for participation in our annual employee bonus program.

 

This position is also eligible for company-sponsored benefits, which include:

 

Who you are: 

 

You are a strategic thinker with the ability to link industry adoption efforts to key account planning, establish, sustain, influence executive relationships and decision making, and actively listen to customer needs, interpret those needs into a requirement set, and creatively deliver a solution for resolution.

 

You are an excellent communicator (oral and written) and a strong relationship builder. You understand how to resolve customer business challenges using a solutions-orientation approach and can build credibility and become an effective and respected ally of other senior leaders both internally and externally.  

 

You possess business acumen and negotiating experience and presence. You are an expert at identifying, negotiating, and closing large sales, including commercial contracts.

 

Your background consists of 10+ years of solutions and global sales experience and 5+ years in industries related to our key customer industries, Marketplaces, CPG/FMCG Grocery, Retail Apparel, General Merchandise, Healthcare, and Foodservice.

 

You lead by example and demonstrate a bias toward action, results orientation, and a style conducive to teamwork. 

 

What you will do: 

 

In short, you will provide strategic account management to key customer accounts (individual or groups of customers) to ensure products, solutions, and services support and drive short-term and long-term customer business objectives. 

 

You will act as the liaison between key customers and functional areas/business teams, helping to identify and resolves account issues (billing, customer service, merger & acquisition activities). 

 

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Ready to be part of a team that believes the identification of everything makes anything possible? Apply today – we can’t wait to hear your story.

 

GS1 US is an Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

 

GS1 US is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search or staffing firms. All resumes submitted by search or staffing firms to any employee at GS1 US via-email, internet or directly without a valid written search agreement will be deemed the sole property of GS1 US, and no fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by GS1 US.