Regional Account Director

The Regional Account Director reports to the Vice President Automotive OEM Americas. This role is the key PPG face to this dynamic customer. The purpose of this role is to enable profitable growth for the customer and for PPG. This individual will serve to sell all pertinent PPG technologies, services, and represents all segments. This individual will also work across business units to support ONE PPG growth at the account globally.

You will be a member of the Americas regional leadership team. The role will be accountable for top and bottom-line financial performance of the global account. The role will have global exposure and help drive a sustainable future with a customer account with significant growth potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for growth performance; revenue and profitability

• Develop and execute the global account strategy involving the full PPG product portfolio.

• Develop value selling approach for the customer.

• Coordinate with strategic marketing the match of PPG and customer strategy.

• Establish customer contacts across all levels and functions and ensure customer satisfaction

• Lead central negotiation & pricing, develop pricing strategy in accordance with internal goals

• Determine the need for new products and coordinate the projects internally and x-functional

• Build and manage the pipeline.

• Establish financial report of the account.

• Demand Forecast

• Contract Management

• Approval Management in coordination with customer engineering (PPG)

• Lead the regional account team in strategy definition & execution.

• Collect voice of customer and competition landscape and feedback into PPG

• Collaborate with the local and global Optima Service organization to meet customer expectations.

• Coordinate regular schedule with all regional sales teams to communicate customer strategy, and provide important updates.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of commercial experience in a leadership role with a proven track record of authentic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, customer engagement, and delivering results

• Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in related discipline.

• Master's degree or global equivalent a plus.

• Experience working across multiple regions and cultures.

• Experience with large OEMs and coatings technology is beneficial.

• Available for traveling approximately 40-50% of the time.

About us:

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