Senior Enterprise Account Executive (Space Technology, Texas)

• As a Sr. Enterprise Account Executive – Space Technology, you’ll work with some of the leading satellite communications and aerospace companies, helping them source precision manufactured components as they move from prototype through low-volume and bridge production
• You’ll dig into each customer’s business goals - financial KPIs, engineering priorities, org structure, in-house manufacturing capabilities and supply chain resiliency needs, and their internal decision-making structure, so you can build relationships with the right people across engineering, procurement, and operations
• You’ll also learn their product roadmaps, requirements, and priorities for bringing products to market, along with their existing supplier relationships and qualification processes
• With that knowledge, you’ll configure the right solution to speed up their time to market, identifying both prototyping opportunities and production-class manufacturing programs that let customers launch products faster than they thought possible
• Your leadership will be key to coordinating the full MISUMI Americas team supporting you - applications engineering, sourcing, manufacturing operations, quality, and finance
• You’ll deliver sales presentations and lead on-site meetings - sales meetings, quarterly business reviews, and technical reviews - to build confidence, deepen relationships, and grow customer lifetime value
• Develop and execute strategic account plans for large enterprise targets
• Own a defined portfolio of high-value accounts and build account strategies that map business units, engineering teams, procurement groups, manufacturing decision-makers, executive sponsors, current supplier relationships, program timelines, and expansion paths. Top performers will know where the account is going before the customer issues an RFQ
• Create and progress complex, multi-stakeholder opportunities
• Identify manufacturing pain points across prototype, new product introduction, low-volume production, bridge production, and supply chain resiliency use cases. Navigate long sales cycles involving engineering validation, supplier qualification, procurement scrutiny, legal review, quality requirements, and executive approval
• Translate technical manufacturing challenges into business value
• Work with customers to understand requirements related to CNC machining, injection molding, sheet metal fabrication, additive manufacturing, tolerances, materials, inspection, DFM, lead times, cost drivers, and production risk. Convert those requirements into clear commercial value tied to speed-to-market, engineering throughput, supply continuity, working capital efficiency, and total cost of ownership
• Lead cross-functional deal orchestration
• Partner closely with applications engineering, sourcing, manufacturing operations, customer success, quality, finance, and leadership to design solutions that can be sold, delivered, scaled, and renewed. The best SAEs will not simply “throw opportunities over the wall”; they will coordinate internal resources with discipline and urgency
• Build executive-level relationships and account expansion pathways
• Establish credibility beyond the initial buying group by developing relationships with VP-level and C-level leaders in engineering, supply chain, operations, product development, and procurement. Use early wins to expand across divisions, product lines, geographies, and manufacturing categories
• Own commercial strategy, negotiation, and closing
• Drive pricing strategy, business cases, proposals, MSAs, supplier onboarding, enterprise agreements, and complex negotiations. Balance customer advocacy with MISUMI Americas commercial goals, ensuring that deals are strategically valuable, operationally executable, and positioned for long-term growth
• Maintain rigorous pipeline discipline and forecast accuracy
• Build a sufficient, qualified pipeline, manage opportunity stages with precision, identify risks early, and maintain a reliable forecast. Excellence in this role requires both strategic creativity and operating discipline
• Standard office and home-office work environment with extensive computer, phone, and video-conference use. Ability to travel by air and drive within assigned territory, including navigating customer plant floors and manufacturing environments during field visits

Benefits

• Monthly virtual work stipend
• Paid volunteer days
• Learning and development stipend
• Paid parental leave
• Equity options
• Wellness perks- Experience selling manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, product development, industrial technology, or production services to enterprise customers
• Ability to understand and discuss manufacturing requirements such as tolerances, materials, production processes, lead times, quality standards, DFM considerations, inspection needs, and supplier qualification
• Fluency in Spanish preferred, not required
• Working knowledge of technical manufacturing, engineering services, industrial supply chains, product development, or related technical domains
• Demonstrated success closing and expanding six and seven-figure annual contract value opportunities, with direct involvement in multi-million-dollar account growth
• Experience selling into organizations where buying decisions involve multiple functions, including engineering, procurement, supply chain, operations, finance, legal, and executive stakeholders
• Strong command of enterprise sales methodology, account planning, pipeline management, deal qualification, mutual action plans, and executive-level selling
• 8+ years of B2B sales experience, with at least 5 years selling complex technical solutions into enterprise or strategic accounts
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, technology-enabled company where sales, operations, product, and supply teams must work tightly together
• Background using MEDDICC, Challenger, Command of the Message, Force Management, or similar enterprise sales frameworks
• Experience managing strategic accounts that include both centralized procurement and decentralized engineering demand
• Experience in displacing incumbent suppliers or introducing a new operating model into conservative manufacturing organizations
• Background in space technology/satellite industry strongly preferred
• Spend over 50% of your time out of the office in front of customers
• Comfortable owning a territory or named-account book with high expectations for pipeline creation, deal strategy, forecast integrity, and expansion
• Familiarity with CNC machining, injection molding, sheet metal, urethane casting, additive manufacturing, or precision manufacturing workflows
• BS in Engineering or a technical degree preferred
• Proven record of consistently meeting or exceeding quota in a long-cycle, consultative sales environment