Account Manager – Municipal Wastewater (Field‑Based, Southern England)
Covering customer sites across the South, Southeast and South Coast - which includes daily travel and overnight stays away from home
Solenis is a leading global provider of water and hygiene solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, cleaners, disinfectants, and state-of-the-art monitoring, control and delivery systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments.
Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 70 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over 16,500 professionals in 130 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2025 Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree. For more information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com.
We're looking for a motivated and ambitious Account Manager to help grow our presence in the municipal wastewater sector. This is a full-time, permanent, field-based role, ideally suited to someone based in the South of England who enjoys building strong customer relationships, solving technical challenges, and driving business growth.
As the face of Solenis across your region, you'll play a key role in helping wastewater customers achieve their operational and sustainability goals while developing new business opportunities and strengthening long-term partnerships.
What You'll Be Doing- Driving growth – Develop and execute sales strategies that deliver against targets and expand our market presence.
- Building partnerships – Create trusted, long-term relationships with customers by understanding their challenges and business objectives.
- Collaborating internally – Work closely with Corporate Accounts, Marketing, Pricing, and Applications teams to deliver tailored customer solutions.
- Managing your pipeline – Maintain a focused and proactive approach to opportunity management, ensuring sustainable revenue growth.
- Growing accounts – Retain and develop existing business while identifying and securing new opportunities.
- Providing technical support – Help municipal wastewater customers understand our products, applications, and best practices.
- Being a trusted advisor – Support customers with troubleshooting, performance optimisation, and application expertise.
- Account management experience, backed by a degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a related scientific field.
- Entrepreneurial mindset — you're proactive, self-driven, and always spotting new opportunities.
- Water treatment knowledge (highly desirable).
- Strong communication skills and a customer-first approach.
- A willingness to travel extensively across the South, South East, and South Coast. This is a field-based role, and you'll enjoy spending time with customers across the region. To support customer relationships and maximise opportunities, flexibility for overnight stays away from home is essential. On average, the role involves approximately six overnight stays per month, providing valuable exposure to a diverse customer base and the opportunity to build strong, long-term partnerships.
- Ability to work independently while effectively managing a varied regional territory.
- A valid UK driver's license.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary package.
- Annual bonus scheme.
- Company car.
- Private healthcare.
- Enhanced company pension scheme.
- Life assurance.
- Employee assistance program.
Join Us
At Solenis, we're proud of our purpose-driven culture and our commitment to innovation and sustainability. If you're ready to take your account management career to the next level while making a positive environmental impact, we'd love to hear from you.
We understand that not every candidate will possess every desired qualification listed above. If your experience varies from our outlined requirements, yet you believe you can bring value to the role, we encourage you to apply and share your unique perspective with us.
At Solenis, we recognize that our people are our greatest asset. We offer attractive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and abundant opportunities for professional growth and development. If you're passionate about working for a world-class company and enjoy tackling complex challenges, we invite you to consider joining our team.
Solenis is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
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