Key Account Manager

3 weeks ago

Chicago, United States Modern Sprout Full time

Job Title: Key Account Manager

Location: Chicago, IL

Company: Modern Sprout


About Us: Modern Sprout is a Chicago-based design shop and manufacturer, leading the grow-your-own movement with innovative indoor and outdoor garden-focused lifestyle goods. Our mission is to make gardening easy and accessible for everyone, combining sustainability with stylish design. Our products can be found on the shelves of national retailers including Target, World Market, Whole Foods and at over 2000 independent retailers across the country.


Position Overview: We seek a bright, energetic, and highly motivated individual to oversee key account sales initiatives, manage and grow existing customer relationships, procure new accounts, and identify new sales channels. The ideal candidate thrives in a hands-on, fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, is driven by sales, and sees this role as a critical step in their career in sales.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Drive sales growth by developing and maintaining strong relationships with key customer accounts to achieve sales goals.
  • Identify and cultivate relationships with dormant accounts and actively solicit new leads as needed. 
  • Identify products to expand assortment and develop programs to increase sales with existing key accounts.
  • Attend and actively sell at seasonal tradeshows, travel to high-value areas, and visit local customers.
  • Participate in internal weekly sales meetings to provide account business recaps, align on forecasts, and drive shipments.
  • Map out, plan, and participate in sales meetings and pitches.
  • Data entry tasks including setting up reports for internal/external needs, customer entry forms for new customer and new items, purchase order tracking and follow up.
  • Report customer needs, issues, product feedback, and trends to management to support Modern Sprout in best serving its partners.


Our Ideal Candidate:

  • A bachelor’s degree with 3-5+ years applicable experience in sales and account management within lifestyle, home, fashion, and/or gifting sectors.
  • Proven track record of sales success in a similar role.
  • Personable and able to build and maintain relationships with leads/potential clients.
  • Driven and self-assured; someone who takes ownership of achieving their goals.
  • Confident with strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Tech-savvy and able to easily adopt existing systems and work with leadership to develop and execute new systems to manage growth.
  • Progressively minded and interested in learning about and utilizing new tools and apps to achieve different objectives.
  • Green thumb is a plus.


Benefits:

  • Full-time salaried + bonus with competitive compensation based on experience.
  • Unique benefits package including medical and vision insurance, flexible hours, and unlimited paid vacation time.


To Apply: Submit a resume and cover letter to careers@modsprout.com. Applications without cover letters will not be accepted. To learn more about Modern Sprout and its collection of products, please visit modsprout.com or follow the company on Facebook and Instagram.


Modern Sprout is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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