The Sr Sales Manager is a senior commercial leadership role responsible for delivering profitable growth across assigned customers while leading a team of account managers who manage and grow their own customer portfolios. This role owns growth strategy, execution, and accountability for key direct accounts, while also coaching the team to identify opportunities, build pipeline, deepen customer relationships, and convert new business across regional and national accounts. The Sr Sales Manager is expected to balance direct customer ownership with people leadership, ensuring that customer plans, innovation opportunities, pricing, forecasting, and commercial execution are aligned to AAK’s growth objectives. Travel to deepen customer relationships, support team selling, and advance growth initiatives is required and expected to be 30-40%.