AVP - Enterprise Customer Lead

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Ecolab is seeking an AVP - Enterprise Customer Leadto join its Ecolab Enterprise Solutions team leading one of our Top 10 Global Accounts in the Oil & Gas Industry.

Ecolab Enterprise Solutions (EES) brings together the full strength of Ecolab to accelerate crossdivision growth, enhance customer value, and deliver consistent execution across global markets. Built on a single enterprise global account operating model, EES streamlines people, processes, and tools to support customer needs defined by our anchor divisions. The model expands customer ownership, ensuring our teams can sell and support all Ecolab solutions while preserving the deep product and industry expertise that differentiates us.

As an AVP - Enterprise Customer Lead, you'll shape enterprise level partnerships and drive strategic growth across one of Ecolab's most influential customer relationships. You will serve as the primary steward of a key client relationship across the entire organization, leveraging C-suite engagementand deep cross functional collaborationto unlock top and bottom-line results. This role offers the opportunity to unite executives, division leaders, and global solution teams around a unified strategy, driving enterprise-to-enterprise value, expanding market impact, and delivering innovative solutions.

What's in it For You:

• The opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping clients achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growthand that can provide a long-term career path in operations, training, sales, or leadership
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best
• Comprehensive benefits package starting day 1 of employment including medical, dental, vision, matching 401k, company paid pension, stock purchase plan, tuition reimbursement and more!
• Company vehicle for business and personal use
• Be part of a company that values a culture of safety that includes top-notch safety training and personal protective equipment

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a strategic plan for the assigned strategic customer to drive partnerships that produce top and bottom-line growth and increased market share for Ecolab, with an exponential return on investment for the customer
• Leverage Ecolab Executives and leaders to build and develop Enterprise-to-Enterprise relationships throughout the assigned customer's organization
• Manage the customer P&L to create and deliver annual business plans
• Set goals, lead and coach a team of high performing Global Solution Leads to meet growth & profitability plans every year
• Leverage strategic planning process to drive workforce and talent plans with Divisions and Markets to ensure effective and efficient delivery of Ecolab's value proposition to the assigned Customer
• Lead the process to negotiate commercial terms for while ensuring alignment with Ecolab's markets, legal, and finance teams
• Partner with division and functional leads to and alignment on critical initiatives to achieve Ecolab's strategic goals

Position Details

• Candidate must reside or be willing to relocate to a commutable distance of Houston, TX
• Overnight travel: Up to 25%, may include international travel

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher
• 5 years corporate accounts experience
• 10 years sales experience
• Experience in C-suite selling
• Valid driver's license and acceptable Motor Vehicle Record.
• No immigration sponsorship available for this opportunity.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years corporate accounts experience
• Experience within the Oil & Gas industry
• Sales experience with a large, global, matrixed organization
• Technical sales experience working with complex products and solution offerings and prospecting and managing large corporate customers
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal savvy
• Ability to influence and persevere through difficult negotiation processes
• Demonstrated large account management success with executive-level relationship sales experience
• Experience managing others either directly or indirectly
• Experience influencing without authority
• Cross-cultural business experience
• In-depth knowledge of Ecolab Industrial sector offerings and broad knowledge of Ecolab capabilities; proven track record of working with field sales

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Our Commitment to a Culture of Inclusion & Belonging

At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are inclusive. We are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.

In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA).

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.