Senior Account Executive

About MISUMI Americas

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

Impact in this Role

As a Senior Account Executive, you will work closely with some of the most exciting companies in the world to help them bring amazing products to market. You will ensure MISUMI Americas fully understands the customer’s business goals, including financial KPIs, vision/mission, key initiatives, organizational structures, and operating models, including in-house manufacturing capabilities, R&D labs, etc. You will also seek to understand their internal decision-making structures and processes and develop the right relationships within those structures. You will learn about their product roadmaps, requirements, challenges, and priorities in bringing products to market, as well as their partnerships, such as design partners, contract manufacturers, local shop preferences, etc.

With this knowledge, you will configure the optimal solution to address those requirements while improving their time to market. You will work on identifying and developing both prototyping opportunities and production-class manufacturing programs that allow our customers to develop, launch, and deliver products to market at speeds never before thought possible. Your proven leadership skills will be essential to coordinating the efforts of a highly capable MISUMI Americas team and platform that supports you at every opportunity. You will deliver sales presentations and organize on-site meetings such as Sales meetings, quarterly business reviews, tech days, and other face-to-face meetings to instill confidence, build relationships, and accumulate account knowledge that helps you manage and grow customer lifetime value.

What You’ll Be Doing

Prospect to build and maintain a healthy pipeline

Meet and exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual sales quotas

Maintain accurate account and opportunity forecasting in Salesforce.com

Generate new business opportunities within target account list

Build meaningful, long term relationships with key customer contacts

Represent the company at trade shows, conferences, and industry events

Become a true expert in the product development needs, plans and challenges of your accounts

Help expand MISUMI Americas reputation as an industry leader in the digital manufacturing space

Spend over 50% of your time traveling to connect face-to-face with your customers as appropriate

Collaborate cross-functionally to win complex deals

Desired Traits

Minimum of 8 years of proven track record of meeting & exceeding monthly and quarterly targets

Manufacturing and supply chain industry experience

BS/BA degree preferred

Firm grasp of product development and related business requirements

Experience driving consultative, solution based sales and expanding within strategic industry verticals

Demonstrated track record of quickly building a new pipeline and managing a forecast to consistently exceed quota

Demonstrated expertise with modern sales tools (CRM, Sequencing, Prospecting, Collaboration)

Experience with TAM / SAM analysis

Unparalleled verbal and written communication skills

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; walk; talk and hear; use hands to keyboard, fingers, handle, and feel; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch.

Perks and Benefits

Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K plan

Parental leave programs

Paid volunteer days

And much, much more!

Salary Range: $100,000 base per year, $100,000 variable per year (uncapped)

Interested in learning more? We look forward to hearing from you soon.

We’re actively seeking teammates who:

Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.

Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.

Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.

Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.

Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.