Enterprise Account Manager

Afresh Technologies is an AI-powered platform company serving the grocery retail and distribution industry. The company develops decision-making software that helps retailers and distributors manage fresh food departments more efficiently by turning large volumes of operational data into actionable recommendations for ordering, inventory, production planning, and buying. Its platform covers a broad range of fresh categories including produce, meat, seafood, deli, and bakery, and is designed to address the inherent complexity of fresh food supply chains such as fluctuating assortments, random-weight products, multiple vendor relationships, and perishability. Afresh's mission is closely tied to sustainability and food waste reduction. By helping grocers order and produce more precisely, the platform directly reduces food shrink — the industry term for unsold or spoiled product — which is a significant contributor to food waste globally. The company has reported that its technology helps retailers avoid millions of pounds of food waste annually, positioning Afresh as a meaningful participant in the climate and food systems space. What distinguishes Afresh is its fresh-first data foundation, built specifically to model the unique characteristics of perishable grocery operations rather than adapting general retail or supply chain software. The platform incorporates AI agents that not only generate recommendations but also automate routine workflows and escalate decisions to human teams when judgment is required, enabling faster and more confident action across store and distribution center operations.

What You'll Do:

Revenue & Expansion Ownership

• Sole Owner of Revenue, Retention, and Expansion Targets: Directly own the financial health and growth of a strategic account portfolio. Your mandate is to secure 100% retention on existing accounts while driving year-over-year expansion through the identification and development of new sales opportunities.

Strategic Partnership Mandate

• C-Suite Relationship Management: Establish and maintain relationships with a multi-threaded network of executive sponsors  up to the C-suite level (e.g., CEO, COO, CIO) to ensure sustained advocacy and clear alignment on multi-year strategic goals.
• Customer Quarterback: Serve as the single point of accountability for all external interactions, owning the comprehensive view of all customer-facing initiatives and internal priorities.
• Continuous Strategic Discovery: Lead consistent and frequent executive-level discovery sessions to maintain a deep, evolving understanding of the customer’s strategic business priorities, critical pain points, and target ideal state. You will act as an internal translator, articulating the value of Afresh's solution suite in the customer’s own language and financial terms to ensure solutions are perfectly mapped and advocacy is organic.
• Trusted Advisor: Serve as a thought leader in the retail/grocery technology space, advising clients on how to leverage Afresh's AI to achieve massive business transformation, specifically in driving profitability and efficiencies across their fresh supply chain.
• Executive Business Reviews: Design and lead sophisticated, data-driven Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) that focus on achieved ROI, joint operational metrics, and forward-looking strategic planning, not just product updates.

Internal Advocacy & Alignment

• Executive Coordination: Act as the primary orchestrator between the customer's leadership and Afresh’s leadership team to assist with complex stakeholder mapping and relationship building.
• Product Strategy Alignment: Partner closely with Afresh’s Product organization to ensure our development roadmap remains aligned with the critical, high-impact needs of our largest customers, influencing the future direction of our technology roadmap.
• Operational Excellence: Collaborate with our Operations team to monitor system performance, identify opportunities for optimization, and ensure the customer realizes the maximum value and benefit from their Afresh investment. Help the team prioritize the efforts most aligned to the customer’s strategic needs.

Commercial Execution

• Commercial Leadership: Lead highly complex negotiations for multi-year renewals and expansion contracts, including developing and navigating unique commercial structures and legal terms.
• Full Sales Cycle Ownership: Run the full sales cycle for new opportunities within the existing account footprint (upsell/expansion/cross-sell), from identifying need to negotiation and closure. Leverage our Product, Marketing, and Sales Engineering organizations as needed to ensure a seamless sales cycle.
• Strategic Commercial Defense: Proactively analyze the account's total addressable spend and potential "build vs. buy" threats. Develop creative and non-standard commercial architectures to maximize long-term revenue while neutralizing incentives for in-house alternatives.
• Marketing: Develop internal and external communication plans to broadly disseminate the value of Afresh's partnership throughout the customer's organization.
• Partnership Evangelism: Systematically transform executive sponsors into active, high-impact evangelists. Ensure executive sponsors will act as industry referrals. Drive joint marketing initiatives, including co-authored case studies, executive video testimonials, and joint press releases, to leverage customer success as a powerful market validator.

 

Who You Are:

The following represent the skills and experience our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage candidates to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise sales, consulting. or strategic account management within a technology company.
• Experience in supply chain or retail/grocery industries is a strong plus.
• 3+ years of experience generating new business within enterprise accounts (Fortune 100 Companies).
• Demonstrated track record of achieving high retention (95%+) and significant expansion within a strategic account base.
• Proven ability to understand complex technology solutions and platforms, and a demonstrated track record of using value selling to address the needs of different economic decision makers within an organization.
• Exceptional executive presence, proven success in engaging and influencing C-suite leaders across various functions (e.g., Technology, Operations, Merchandising, Finance).
• Proven ability to navigate organizational complexity and internal politics to drive cross-functional alignment on behalf of the customer.
• Proven ability to operate with autonomy in a fast paced start-up environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.
• Ability to travel up to 50% to meet the needs of a strategic, geographically dispersed customer portfolio.
• BA/BS required.

 

This is a 100% remote position with travel up to 50% required.

This position is not eligible for company sponsorship.

Salary Compensation in USD: $160,000 base, $70,000 variable, 70/30 split, $230k OTE