Territory Manager Application & Sales

Overview

Kurita America is expanding its team in the Northeast/Philadelphia area. This role is responsible for growing and maintaining individual territory accounts and developing new business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary customer contact including technical issues, correspondence, periodic updates, ensure customer satisfaction, and coordinate with staff as appropriate.
• Identify opportunities to expand projects in ways that bring value to our customers.
• Ensure that delivered products and services achieve highest quality and performance levels.
• Interact with all key stakeholders, including customers, consultants, engineers, contractors and internal staff.
• Provide technical support to customers, identifying and resolving customer challenges.
• Participate in training, as well as regional and annual sales meetings.
• Represent the company at trade shows.

Qualifications

• Technical Requirements:
• Experience in water and wastewater treatment plant design, construction and operation.
• Understands membrane fundamentals and how membrane processes work.
• Familiar with identifying flow paths through a system.
• General understanding of membrane pretreatment processes.
• General knowledge of membrane fouling and scaling.
• Clean-in-place (CIP) knowledge.
• System process knowledge to identify potential chemical opportunities.
• Basic troubleshooting skills.
• Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree desired in Engineering (Chemical, Mechanical, Industrial), or Life Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, etc.) but not required.
• Minimum 5 years of water treatment operations or sales experience working in a lead capacity in an engineering setting, equipment supplier or membrane plant operations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and CRM systems.
• Ability and willingness to travel, as required. Must live close to a major airport.
• Possess a valid work authorization for permanent employment in the US.
• Ability to effectively communicate in written and verbal form to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self-starter, autonomous and highly motivated.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Independent, motivated, self-starter. Takes ownership and accountability.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to perform and produce results while maintaining positive relationships.

Pay

$90,000 to $115,000 plus commissions

Schedule

Up to 50% travel in territory