Account Manager
Date: Jul 31, 2025
Location: Suzhou, CN, 215126
Company: Gates Corporation
Are you inspired by challenging the status quo? Do you thrive in collaborative environments that drive results? If so, Gates could be for you.
Gates is a leading manufacturer of application-specific fluid power and power transmission solutions. We push the boundaries of material science to engineer solutions that continually exceed customer expectations.
Let's simplify it, think belts and hoses. Found in motorcycles, conveyor belts, cars, tractors, blenders, vacuum cleaners, bicycles, & 3D printers just to name a few. Because why not do it all?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Understand the market, grasp customer needs, integrate customer resources, establish sales channels, and independently complete product promotion and sales work.
- Responsible for new customer development, customer information collection and market potential information, responsible for performance growth.
- Resolutely completing the sales target, strictly implement the company's rules and regulations, conscientiously perform the duties.
- Communicate with customers, timely grasp the needs of customers, and understand the status of customers.
- Making Action plans, to effectively find sales leads and potential customers.
- Launch and coordinate the development of action plans and programs to penetrate new markets.
- Report market information, forecast and monthly key activities/projects.
- Establish strong contacts within the designated market segments, including customers, suppliers, partners and key distributors.
- Assist in the development and implementation of the marketing plan as needed.
- Track customer payments in a timely manner.
- Other assigned tasks or responsibilities.
Keys to Success
Supervisory Responsibilities
Requirements and Preferred Skills
- 3 years and above sales experience
- Bachelor’s degree or Above, Preferring Engineering Background
- Have 1-2 years of business development experience and successful cases first.
- Thorough understanding of internal and external environment that will have impact on company sales target (including company operation feature, market trend, competitors, Chinese government planning) and good ability to anticipate technological and market trend
- Deep and unique understanding of assigned sales division, for example, customer business model, customer characteristics, industry cycle and etc. Prefer to have profound social networking or sound relationships with potential customers
- Recognize the needs for field travel and prompt response to customers and marketing.
- Good written and oral English skills
WHY GATES?
Founded in 1911 in Denver, Colorado, Gates is publicly traded on the NYSE. While we might operate in a vast amount of time zones we operate as 'One Gates' and have a common goal of pushing the boundaries of materials science. We invest in our people, bringing real-world experience that enables us to solve our customers' diverse challenges of today and anticipate those of tomorrow.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Gates is an Equal Opportunity and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of race, sex, color, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other consideration defined by law.