
Territory Manager
- Columbia, SC
- $54,180-81,180 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborate with distributors and their sales representatives in the field to expand distribution.
- Educates, demonstrates, prospects, and closes or helps close deals with distribution and their reps.
- Partners with Strategic Accounts in the territory. This may include surveying new facilities and making solution recommendations to grow Strategic Accounts through face-to-face interaction with BSC site managers, retail store managers, healthcare, and education customers.
- Installs equipment through on-site training with customers.
- Partners with distributors, Industrial counterparts, service, SA, and other channels of Tennant’s business.
- Manages channel conflict and day-to-day customer issues in the assigned territory.
- Cleans and maintains company demo equipment, vehicle and trailer.
- Manages, controls, and takes responsibility for assigned company demo inventory.
- Execute sales strategy in the assigned geography as directed by the Commercial Market Manager.
- Makes sales calls, cold calls, and customer calls (face-to-face, emails, and phone calls) on existing and new target accounts.
- Associate’s Degree.
- 3+ years sales experience and history of progressive sales results.
- Demonstrated experience working with distribution and channel partners.
- Solid business acumen, and knowledge of the sales process; track record of sales success.
- Effectively leverage the sales process to increase success rate for each project.
- Identify and effectively partner with key internal and external decision makers.
- Identify the appropriate communication strategy to the customer.
- Effectively leverages training, tools, technology and programs.
- Consistently exhibits a high level of time and territory management.
- Exceptional organization and prioritization skills.
- Strong selling and negotiating skills.
- Strong presentation, training and facilitation skills.
- Proficient at interacting with people at all levels of an organization.
- Functional PC and PC application skills.
- Must pull trailers as per DOT regulations and safety standards.
- Must meet physical requirements of the position including ability to hook up trailers and load demonstration gear.
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher.
- Prior experience in the commercial or industrial cleaning industry.