Technical Account Manager Yacht

**Date**:Aug 15, 2025

**Location**: Coomera, AU

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

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**The role**:
AkzoNobel is a global leader in yacht coatings, trusted by professional boatbuilders and owners to deliver exceptional performance and finish. We’re looking for a driven Technical Account Manager to own sales and technical support for our AwlGrip, International and Sea Hawk paint product portfolios across the Gold Coast, Whitsundays, Northern NSW and Darwin regions. If you have a passion for boats, thrive on building relationships, driving revenue and solving complex technical challenges, this role is for you.

**What you'll do**:

- Own and grow a portfolio of end-user and reseller accounts, executing against agreed sales plans
- Manage your territory with a great deal of autonomy, suggesting and implementing strategies to grow and improve AkzoNobel’s business
- Identify and secure new customers outside existing networks, targeting Awlmix colour-mixing opportunities
- Deliver product and technical training to resellers and end users
- Drive sales performance, analyse variances to targets, recommend and implement corrective actions
- Represent AkzoNobel at boat shows and brand-building events
- Manage and improve customer relationships to drive customer satisfaction and loyalty

**What we're looking for**:

- Proven sales negotiation and influencing abilities
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Strong presentation, IT and analytical capabilities
- Meticulous attention to technical detail and reporting
- Flexible, team-oriented approach with business management experience
- Paint knowledge and skills are an advantage, but full training will be provided

**Why AkzoNobel**:
Being a Global company, we have a suite of benefits we can offer in addition your standard permanent role and job stability:

- **Career Pathway and Training**: We're committed to helping you reach your career goals. We offer training and development opportunities that open doors to your next steps.
- **Performance Bonuses**: A competitive base salary with the potential to earn annual performance bonuses on top
- **Let AkzoNobel help you meet your health goals**: Your health matters to us. Enjoy financial support for health and wellbeing programs of your choice each year.
- **Tools of the Trade**: We provide the tools you need to excel - a fully maintained company vehicle, laptop, and mobile phone.
- **Want to stretch your dollar further**? Enjoy our employee benefits on discounted private health insurance with Bupa and free access for you and your family on our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), that include discount on retail goods and services.
- **Looking for more perks**? Join us to find out more

**How to Apply**:
Join us and help propel our Yacht Coatings business to new heights

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.