
Account Manager
Cottage Grove, MNFull-time$85–120K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Account Manager manages customer relationships and serves as a liaison between the business and its customers. The role focuses on growing relationships and coordinating sales through customer visits, product demonstrations, project discussions, and account support. The Account Manager also identifies new business opportunities, develops customer-specific selling strategies, and works with internal sales representatives and technicians to keep account activities current.
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Description
Summary:
The Account Manager plays a crucial role in supporting our purpose of creating lasting value for those we serve by directly managing the customer relationship and being a liaison between the business and the customer. The Account Manager is focused on establishing and growing customer relationships and coordinate sales. This individual will make daily personal visits to customer locations to demonstrate products, discuss projects and maintain personal and professional relationships. The Account Manager is seen as a champion for the company culture and through all activities and actions promotes our culture, our 5 P's and our purpose to create lasting value for those we serve.
Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:
Build and maintain excellent customer relationships
Provide excellent customer service for existing customers by providing solutions, managing projects, or providing information on products or services
Identify new business opportunities and establish new customer relationships
Review reports of business transactions, sales reports, expense reports and promotional letters for assigned accounts
Developing strategic selling strategies for individual customers, track and analyze buying patterns
Work closely with Inside Sales Representatives and Technicians to keep account activities and literature up to date
Develop technical knowledge of new and changing industry
Requirements
Critical Success Factors:
Excellent customer service orientation
Ability to negotiate effectively at a high level and build strong relationships with customers, vendors and suppliers
Ability to build strong relationships with our internal sales force and assist, guide and mentor when needed
Excellent communication skills, including written, oral and effective listening skills
Must be driven with a strong desire to learn and succeed in the position
Ability to see the big picture when developing goals and strategies for the overall business
Strong problem solving and decision making ability
Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple priorities
Ability to learn, grow, and adapt to change
Ability to successfully work independently and in a team environment
Strong work ethic with a positive attitude
Willingness to give and receive constructive feedback
Solid business acumen
Self motivated with strong desire to take the initiative
Dependable
Drive for continuous improvement
Job Requirements/Specifications:
Five years experience in sales is required
Minimum of two year degree or equivalent experience required; Four year degree preferred
Demonstrated leadership experience required
Electrical product knowledge is preferred
Proficiency in Microsoft Office required
Ability to travel (approximately 15%) for training and support of customer needs
Work Environment & Physical Demands:
Consistent, sitting, working with hands, working with fingers, talking, hearing, driving, work indoors
Frequent, standing, works alone, works with others
Some, walking, lifting, vision acuity-near, vision acuity-far, depth perception, field of vision, vision adjustment, customer contact
Occasionally, carrying, bending @ the waist, reaching
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by an incumbent. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of activities, duties or responsibilities. Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities
Several factors are considered in making compensation decisions at Van Meter; including but not limited to education, skill sets, work experience and training, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation may be below the lower end of the range when the minimum requirements of the role are not met and the higher end is reserved for candidates with extensive experience and qualifications that exceed the requirements of the role.
Salary Description
$85,000-$120,000
Van Meter is an EOE/M/W/Vets/Disability Employer
Minimum Education Required
High School Diploma or Equivalent
Minimum Experience Required
5 - 20 years
Shift
First (Day)
Number of Openings
1
Public Transportation Accessible
Yes
Veterans Encouraged to Apply
No
Physical Required
Yes
Drug Test Required
Yes
Compensation
$85,000.00 - $120,000.00 / Annually
Postal Code
55016
Job Type
Full Time
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
4646989
Job Benefits
Not specified
How this job compares
Set against the 4,288 open Account Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$85–120K/yr
- Minnesota median$78–110K/yr62 salary ranges
- US median$90–125K/yr2,696 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $103K, is 9% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($94K) — in the middle half of Account Manager salary ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 88 open Account Manager jobs in Minnesota and 4,288 across the US. 11% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Account Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years at the median (3,276 postings).
- Education
- 1,016 of the 4,288 open Account Manager jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Pay, requirements and demand for Sales jobs
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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