
District Sales Manger- East Region
- USA
- $108,500-149,200 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop, implement, and drive sales strategy for the assigned district, monitor and make recommendations concerning market needs, changes in competitive policies and strategies, channels of distribution, advertising and promotion, pricing and sales activity; prepare and issue reports to management to proactively anticipate and take action to impact commercial opportunities and issues.
- Develop strong relationships with customers (distributors, contractors and owners) to understand what these customers value and to find ways to profitably meet their needs.
- Partner with the operations, customer service, product management and marketing functions in creating and delivering value to our customers.
- Manage assigned sales staff; assign sales quotas based on territory objectives; evaluate employee performance; manage employee development and training activities and corrective action programs as may be required; recruit and train new sales staff.
- Actively participate in territory sales planning and forecasting processes for the Performance Materials' sales, inventory, operating, and planning processes.
- Implement marketing programs to achieve sales and market share objectives as well as prepare and issue reports as required.
- Assure legal compliance in the selling of all products/systems with applicable local, state and federal regulations.
- Develop, manage and control budgetary process for their assigned region
- Lead the sales effort for new product commercialization launch efforts at specification and contractor segments in the assigned territories.
- May be required to perform other related duties as assigned
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 7 years sales experience.
- Sales management experience
- Solid experience and/or understanding with sales/marketing channels for building products
- Proven track record obtaining sales goals, developing and managing people, building and maintain high-level customer relationships
- Strong business acumen - understanding of the entire value chain and experience working with owners, engineers, contractors, and distributors
- Ability to be customer and market focused
- Strong leadership skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Proven ability to negotiate
- Basic financial skills
- Ability to be detail and process oriented
- Solid problem resolution skills
- Ability to analyze and evaluate product lines, markets, and customers
- Ability to analyze and evaluate marketing programs and sales strategies
- Ability to interface at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
- Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Ability to interface at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
- Heavy travel required with up to 10 overnight stays per month on average.