Global Key Account Manager - Hyperscale Solutions
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Rittal LLC
US
Summary
The Global Key Account Manager is responsible for managing and growing relationships with global hyperscale customers while executing account plans and driving revenue. They will coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure delivery, quality, and supply chain performance while identifying new business opportunities.
Job Description
Global Key Account Manager – Hyperscale Solutions
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Rittal LLC designs and manufactures world-leading industrial and IT infrastructure solutions, including enclosures, racks, high-density power systems, and climate/thermal management technologies supporting industrial automation, data centers, edge deployments, and hyperscale environments. Our Hyperscale segment supports the fastest-growing digital infrastructure customers - AI, cloud, and mega-scale operators - requiring exceptional operational discipline, speed, and customer intimacy.
Role Overview
The Global Key Account Manager - Hyperscale is a commercially focused role responsible for independently managing and growing relationships with assigned global hyperscale customers. This is a hands-on account ownership role suited for a sales professional who can navigate complex organizations, execute against account plans, and identify new business opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day and strategic interactions with assigned global hyperscale accounts, serving as the primary point of contact for customer relationships.
- Develop and execute account plans, conduct quarterly business reviews, and track performance against defined KPIs and growth targets.
- Monitor delivery schedules, open orders, and supply chain updates, coordinating internal resolution of issues to meet customer expectations.
- Track and report on customer quality, pricing, and delivery KPIs, and coordinate cross-functional responses when performance gaps are identified.
- Align internally with supply chain, logistics, product management, quality, and engineering teams to support and advance ongoing hyperscale programs.
- Lead new product introduction activities and product transitions, managing timelines, stakeholder communication, and risk mitigation.
- Own order forecasting processes and translating customer demand signals into actionable input for production and capacity planning teams.
- Identify and develop new contacts, projects, and expansion opportunities within assigned hyperscale accounts to grow the scope and revenue.
- Prepare and deliver tailored product and solution presentations and proposals.
- Maintain regular, proactive communication with customer teams to ensure high satisfaction and strengthen the overall relationship.
- Drive penetration across key customer functions including procurement, engineering, operations, sustainability, and senior leadership.
- Share market intelligence and strategic insights with leadership to improve commercial and product decisions.
- Coordinate with marketing on customer events, executive visits, and hyperscale-focused collateral and campaigns.
- Maintain compliance with corporate procedures, ISO requirements, and documentation standards across all account activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required, engineering, business management, marketing, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of 4–6 years of experience in account management, enterprise sales, or business development - preferably within IT infrastructure, data center, or technology sectors.
- Proven ability to independently manage complex, multi-stakeholder accounts and drive revenue growth.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across multiple levels of customer organization.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and CRM platforms (Salesforce or equivalent).
- Global account management or cross-regional experience is a plus.
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Rittal LLC and Eplan are proud to be an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. EEO, including Disability/Vets.
Rittal LLC is the U.S. subsidiary of Rittal GmbH & Co. KG in Germany and was founded in Springfield, Ohio in 1982. Its parent company, Rittal, was started in Germany in 1961 and has grown to include offices in more than 70 countries and manufacturing facilities on 4 continents.
Rittal LLC's U.S. Headquarters, located in suburban Chicago, Illinois, is a state-of-the-art facility that serves as a customer training center, including expanded teaching resources, product testing facilities and a large-scale product showroom where customers can have a hands-on experience with the entire Rittal System. Rittal LLC's manufacturing center of excellence facility in Urbana, Ohio, consists of more than a half-million square feet of space to ensure that customers' production and stocking requirements are fully met. Lastly, Rittal LLC's distribution centers in Georgia, Texas and Nevada enable Rittal to meet the needs of its customers quickly and reliably.
Situated on a 105-acre campus, Rittal LLC's manufacturing facility is filled with state-of-the-art equipment and processes, and contains in-house engineering and modification services, as well as the longest non-automotive paint line in North America, stretching more than 3 miles within the confines of the factory. The on-site warehouse is outfitted with an 8-story Automated Storage & Retrieval System.
Rittal manufactures the world's leading industrial and IT enclosures, racks and accessories, including high efficiency, high density climate control and power management systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications. Rittal's off-the-shelf standard, modified standard and custom-engineered products are known throughout the world as high quality, affordable solutions for practically any industrial or IT infrastructure application - from single enclosures to comprehensive systems.
Rittal is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified.
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Schaumburg, Illinois
Rittal LLC is the U.S. subsidiary of Rittal GmbH & Co. KG in Germany and was founded in Springfield, Ohio in 1982. Its parent company, Rittal, was started in Germany in 1961 and has grown to include offices in more than 70 countries and manufacturing facilities on 4 continents.
Rittal LLC's U.S. Headquarters, located in suburban Chicago, Illinois, is a state-of-the-art facility that serves as a customer training center, including expanded teaching resources, product testing facilities and a large-scale product showroom where customers can have a hands-on experience with the entire Rittal System. Rittal LLC's manufacturing center of excellence facility in Urbana, Ohio, consists of more than a half-million square feet of space to ensure that customers' production and stocking requirements are fully met. Lastly, Rittal LLC's distribution centers in Georgia, Texas and Nevada enable Rittal to meet the needs of its customers quickly and reliably.
Situated on a 105-acre campus, Rittal LLC's manufacturing facility is filled with state-of-the-art equipment and processes, and contains in-house engineering and modification services, as well as the longest non-automotive paint line in North America, stretching more than 3 miles within the confines of the factory. The on-site warehouse is outfitted with an 8-story Automated Storage & Retrieval System.
Rittal manufactures the world's leading industrial and IT enclosures, racks and accessories, including high efficiency, high density climate control and power management systems for industrial, data center, outdoor and hybrid applications. Rittal's off-the-shelf standard, modified standard and custom-engineered products are known throughout the world as high quality, affordable solutions for practically any industrial or IT infrastructure application - from single enclosures to comprehensive systems.
Rittal is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified.
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Schaumburg, Illinois
