Account Manager - Water Solutions f/m

DuPont has a rich history of scientific discovery that has enabled countless innovations and today, we're looking for more people, in more places, to collaborate with us to make life the best that it can be.

Our Water Solutions business is looking for an experienced Account Manager f/m based in Johannesburg.

Main responsabilities :

Identify and establish relationships with new customers

Manage and build relationships with existing customers.

Offer multi-tech solutions to clients across a broad spectrum of applications and advise customers on the best solutions for their challenges. This will be achieved via:

• Onsite and remote troubleshooting and optimization
• Design work using WAVE for all value centers
• Training and upgrading the skills of onsite personnel.

Main areas of focus will be End users and OEMs as well as emerging applications. Accounts to be handled will include:

• Industrial Water and Energy
• Catalysis
• Pulp and Paper
• Food and Beverage
• OEMs

Detailed responsabilities :

Maximize revenues from sales of the organization's products and/or services either through direct sales or through a base of reseller partners such as dealers, systems integrators, value-added resellers, distributors or retailers.

Administer sales policies and programs to meet sales and profit goals. May identify and establish relationships with new customers. May locate, evaluate and recruit potential channel partners. Supports partners throughout the sales process in all sales-oriented activities, such as marketing, advertising, sales promotions and training, to achieve revenue targets.

Profile & Job requirements :

This role requires a motivated self-starter with a strong will to learn and solve problems independently and via collaboration.

The preferred candidate (He/She) would ideally be fluent in water treatment technologies (RO/UF, IER, MBR, MABR, CCRO) with a first experience in that field (either in sales or marketing, project management, manufacturing area...)

Graduated of a Bachelor or Master degree in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry is preferred.

Open to travel in South Africa neighboring countries about 20% of the time.

Detailed profile & Job requirements :

Experienced professional or supervisor with in-depth knowledge in a technical or specialized area, responsible for completing complex tasks requiring interpretation of policies and practices, under minimal supervision. May supervise employees, focused on task performance, and recommend improvements to the delivery of specialized processes

• Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge in own job discipline and advanced knowledge of related job disciplines.
• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and differentiators in the market.
• Has built a detailed understanding of market, function, processes and policies gained through multiple years of experience.
• Interprets and applies organizational policies; recommends changes/improvements to specialized processes and procedures.
• May have formal supervisory responsibilities, guiding and prioritizing the activities of individual contributors with similar responsibilities.
• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams.
• Works independently with minimal guidance, providing guidance to less senior team members.
• Assignments often require independent judgment and evaluation.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.

At DuPont, we are working on things that matter; whether its providing clean water to more than a billion people on the planet, producing materials that are essential in everyday technology devices from smartphones to electric vehicles, or protecting workers in this global pandemic.

If you would like to be a part of a premier multi-industrial company that is delivering sustainable solutions that bring real purpose and value, of a company with collaborative spirit because it believes that we work best when wework together as a team and values the diversity of thought, then DuPont is the company for you!

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Get to know ourPurposeand make it yours by bringing innovations to market thatimprove the world, share acommitment to sustainability thatmakes our planet better and give back to communities inwhich we workand live.

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