Technical Key Account Manager (all gender)
What you will enjoy doing
As Technical Key Account Manager, you are the strategic technical counterpart to some of ALPLA's most important global customers.
You connect customer ambitions with ALPLA's innovation and manufacturing capabilities and help shape long-term growth opportunities.
- Own and actively lead the global technical relationship with assigned Strategic Key Customers
- Build strong relationships across customer technical and development organizations
- Technical ownership of request for quotations, ensuring technical feasibility, competitiveness and customer-focused solutions
- Understand customer technology roadmaps and strategic priorities
- Identify business opportunities and future business challenges
- Partner closely with the Global Key Account Manager to translate customer strategies into growth opportunities
- Escalation handling for technical topics in alignment with Global Key Account Manager
- Coordinate and connect ALPLA functions including Product Development, Innovation Management, Recycling, Operations and Technical Centers
- Develop and align global customer guidelines and technical standards
- Lead customer workshops
- Represent ALPLA in high-level technical discussions and strategic customer meetings
- Global overview of customer project portfolio
What makes you great
- Strong technical background (Product Development, Engineering, Operations or Packaging), experience in the rigid plastics industry is preferred
- Experience in engaging with customers
- Proactive, self-driven and structured working style
- Able to connect customer strategy and business opportunities with ALPLA technical capabilities
- Entrepreneurial mindset and passion for building long-term customer partnerships
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken. German language skills are considered as an advantage
- Willingness to travel frequently
What you can expect working with us
- Be a part of a global family-owned enterprise
- A unique opportunity to shape and build strategic customer partnerships on a global scale
- High visibility across customers, management and key decision-makers within ALPLA
- A role where technical expertise, commercial thinking and leadership come together
- Your performance is recognized: we invest in your growth with a wide range of development opportunities through the ALPLA Academy
- ALPLA Kids full-day childcare for children aged 15 months to 6 years
- Stay fit and healthy with the professional training offered by ALPLAsports
Legally mandatory note: In line with the minimum salary stipulated in the collective agreement, the actual salary for this position is based on professional qualifications and experience.
Contact
Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG
ms Lena Marent, Human Resources
Allmendstraße 81
6971 Corporate HQ, Hard