Aerospace Commercial Transparencies Strategic Account Manager

Are you an experienced Account Manager who is looking to take your career to new heights? Are you someone who is able to embrace the highly technical and distill it to others in meaningful ways? Are you someone who is passionate about making a tangible difference in the world around you? If this sounds like you, apply today for our Aerospace Commercial Transparencies Strategic Account Manager role with us at PPG Aerospace!

As the Aerospace Commercial Transparencies Strategic Account Manager you will be responsible for building and maintaining strong, long-term relationships with key customers, focusing on adding value and driving mutually beneficial outcomes. This role is critical to achieving alignment between the company and its most important clients, developing new business opportunities, and managing complex global accounts. In this role you will need to be a strategic thinker with a strong background in customer engagement, leadership skills, and specific product knowledge around aerospace transparencies.

This role works a hybrid schedule with four days a week on site at our facility in Huntsville, AL and one day a week remotely. This role will report to the Global Business Director Commercial Transparencies.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global customer and key account strategies aligned with company objectives, including pricing and opportunity pipeline initiatives.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders across global organizations.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for select transparency accounts, managing contracts, presentations, and customer communications.

• Drive performance to KPIs such as revenue, volume, and earnings, contributing to demand forecasts and budget planning.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with supply chain, procurement, engineering, product development, operations, and finance to meet customer needs.

• Support customer engagement activities, including trade shows, seminars, training, and events.

• Identify and pursue new business opportunities, developing quotations and value proposals based on customer requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or other related discipline and/or equivalent industry experience

• 5+ years of demonstrated successful experience in a customer-facing role

• Aerospace specific industry experience

• 5+ years of experience developing and implementing successful account management strategies in a global industry

• Ability to travel domestically and Internationally as needed to support global customers

• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply

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