Regional Account Manager - Industrial Automation - Team Sales

Regional Account Manager
- Industrial Automation
- Team Sales

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SICK is one of the world’s leading solutions providers for sensor-based applications in the industrial sector. Founded in 1946 by Dr.

-Ing. e. h. Erwin Sick and headquartered in Waldkirch im Breisgau near Freiburg, the company is a technology and market leader with 63 subsidiaries and affiliates as well as numerous agencies around the globe. SICK has more than 10,000employees worldwide and generated a group revenue of EUR 1.8billion in the 2025 fiscal year.

*** This position is a remote based sales role. The ideal candidate can be based in Raleigh NC, Greensboro NC or Richmond VA. Work out of their home office and cover a regional sales territory.

This position has primary responsibility for supporting and growing profitable SICK sales and market share within SICK’s defined strategic industries in the associated region. The Regional Account Manager will be responsible for a named set of accounts and will drive market share within these accounts. This Regional Account Manager will also be a critical part of a defined selling team that will utilize collective experiences, knowledge, and expertise to drive efficient and effective response to all defined SICK’s customer with a Customer Centric focus.

This position will be involved in strategic, complex sales with a focus on products, services, systems, and solutions selling.

• Be the trusted advisor and main point of contact to our customers. Introduce and sell SICK solutions and services to both existing and new account prospects to achieve established goals and grow market share.
• Work strategically with the defined Team Selling Unit in the local region to meet both individual goals as well as defined team goals.
• Responsible for business development and standard solution opportunities within defined customer list. If opportunities push beyond standard solutions this person will engage the SICK solution expert in the defined region and area of expertise.
• Use and accurately maintain the company’s CRM system for all customer and sales process data to ensure teamwork, collaboration, and global transparency towards providing an amazing customer experience.
• Develop direct customer relationships using deep understanding of customers business needs, production applications, and technical language utilized in their industry.
• Use consultative sales techniques and solutions that are differentiated to improve customer production quality control and production efficiency, based on SICK Sales Power (SSP) to uncover customer needs and solve difficult applications.
• Provide an amazing customer experience and accurately manage customer communications and SICK customer relationship with named accounts.
• Identify and qualify business and customer opportunities and/or threats; understand the account potential, competitors, and position in the market and requirements for doing business.
• Be responsible for new leads and potential opportunities for new and diverse product applications through continued product, industry, and client research.
• Introduce SICK new products, solutions, systems, and Lifetime Services with a sense of urgency and entrepreneurialism.
• Utilize the defined Team Selling Unit for efficiency and effectiveness. As needed engage outside the team selling unit with specialists, national product managers, and other colleagues, as appropriate, to maximize our share of wallet.
• Develop strategic account plans for target customers and opportunities.
• Pursue Sales Excellence, developing skills, knowledge, and competencies to continuously improve performance. Complete annual performance objectives and…