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Industrial Account Manager - Peoria, IL
full-time•Peoria
About this role
Industrial Account Manager – Peoria, IL
Are you a polished sales professional with a proven ability to build strong customer relationships? Do you thrive in fast-paced, competitive environments where your business development efforts directly drive results? Are you motivated to become a trusted expert in delivering solutions that keep manufacturing operations running at their best?
If so, we want you on our team.
At Kirby Risk Electrical Supply, we help our customers succeed by delivering industry-leading Rockwell Automation products, services, and support. Since 1926, we’ve built our company on values of hard work, respect, and urgency, and we continue to grow by investing in people who share those values. This is your opportunity to advance your career while making a lasting impact.
What You’ll Do as an Industrial Account Manager
In this role, you’ll be responsible for growing and managing a diverse customer base, developing long-term relationships, and driving business development across multiple accounts.
You’ll:
- Hit the ground running by making immediate sales calls in your territory
- Develop expertise in Rockwell Automation products and services
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships at all organizational levels
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities to expand account packages
- Collaborate with colleagues across multiple sales offices to support your accounts
- Navigate complex manufacturing environments to uncover and solve challenges
- Provide solutions that deliver win/win outcomes for customers and Kirby Risk
- Represent Kirby Risk with professionalism in every customer and vendor interaction
What Makes You a Great Fit
- 3–5 years of successful sales experience (industry experience in Electrical Supply is a plus)
- Proven ability to manage accounts and relationships in a competitive territory
- Strong problem-solving skills, especially in ambiguous or contradictory situations
- Ability to follow company processes while applying creativity to solve challenges
- Skilled at building relationships at all organizational levels within manufacturing facilities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and CRM software
- Known for a positive outlook, professionalism, and continuous learning mindset
What to Expect in This Role
- Territory supported by multiple Kirby Risk sales offices
- Travel within the assigned territory to meet with customers (daily, with some overnight as needed)
- Monday–Friday schedule, with flexibility for customer or vendor events
Why Kirby Risk?
For nearly 100 years, Kirby Risk has been a trusted leader in electrical supply, manufacturing, and services. Our people are engaged, caring, and committed to delivering value with urgency and respect. When you join Kirby Risk, you’re not just taking a job—you’re building a career with a company that invests in you.
Benefits That Work for You
We provide a complete benefits package designed to support your health, career, and future:
- Medical, RX, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Life insurance & Employee Assistance Programs
- Tuition reimbursement & on-the-job training
- 401(k) with company match & Profit Sharing
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
Ready to power up your career? Apply online today and join Kirby Risk, where leadership, customer satisfaction, and teamwork drive everything we do.
To be considered for this position, please apply online: https://www.kirbyrisk.com/careers . Email questions to [email protected]
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We will acknowledge all resumes received via email and respond to requests for help to complete your application.
Please note: You must have legal status that enables you to work in the U.S. We cannot obtain sponsorship. To be considered for a role, candidates must meet the minimum qualifications.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Please get to know us at www.kirbyrisk.com. or via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kirby-risk/
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What you'll do
- The Industrial Account Manager is responsible for growing and managing a diverse customer base while developing long-term relationships. This role involves driving business development across multiple accounts and providing solutions to manufacturing challenges.
About Kirby Risk
Kirby Risk Corporation is a multi-faceted company, dedicated to understanding and meeting our business partners' needs with innovative, effective solutions. Our experience and network of resources provide customers with reliable technical assistance, logistics management, communications systems and quality products that not only meet their requirements, but also enhance their competitive position.
With our main focus being solutions that help customers meet productivity objectives, Kirby Risk provides a wide range of services, including quality electrical supplies, electrical apparatus sales and repair services, wiring harness/cable manufacturing and quality industrial component manufacturing. Customer service is an integral part of Kirby Risk Corporation, with thirty-eight electrical supply locations throughout Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.
Kirby Risk Corporation is financially and strategically focused on helping customers address the growing competitive pressures to reduce costs, conserve resources, improve productivity and reduce the time to manufacture goods and services. We can provide total cost of ownership solutions, such as asset and integration management and consulting services that will allow manufacturers to quickly respond to industry trends.
Kirby Risk Corporation places a high value on its customers, employees, vendors and community relations. Going above and beyond what it takes to provide the right parts at the right time, to the right place, and at the right cost is not a sacrifice...it's a minimum requirement. Staying committed to this concept of "sacrificial service" has fueled Kirby Risk since 1926.
Today, Kirby Risk Corporation has evolved into a multi-faceted business with 7 operating business units:
Kirby Risk Electrical Supply
Kirby Risk Service Center
Kirby Risk Mechanical Solutions and Service
Kirby Risk Precision Machining
ARCO Electric Products
Wire Supplies
Intelligent Industry Solutions
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What does a Industrial Account Manager - Peoria, IL do at Kirby Risk?
As a Industrial Account Manager - Peoria, IL at Kirby Risk, you will: the Industrial Account Manager is responsible for growing and managing a diverse customer base while developing long-term relationships. This role involves driving business development across multiple accounts and providing solutions to manufacturing challenges..
Is the Industrial Account Manager - Peoria, IL position at Kirby Risk remote?
The Industrial Account Manager - Peoria, IL position at Kirby Risk is based in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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