Sales Manager - Packaging Machinery
Location : Remote with travel
Job Summary :
The Regional Sales Manager is a remote-based position located within the designated territorial region and has overall responsibility for building and maintaining client relations.
This position reports directly to the GM / V.P., Heritage Unit.
Job Responsibilities :
- Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts.
- Creates sales plans to generate revenue with a commitment to moving pipeline.
- Develops, negotiates, and implements contracts.
- Builds and manages sales pipeline.
- Presents a quarterly and annual booking plan and upside that meet or exceed quarterly and annual individual and business revenue targets.
- Creates plans to address clients’ business needs.
- Ensures both the company and clients adhere to contract terms.
- Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, and merchandising techniques.
- Recommends changes in products, service, and policy by evaluating results and competitive developments.
- Collaborates with internal teams and Regional Service Management to address customer needs.
- Conducts application and test materials review to ensure products meets the customer current and future application requirements.
- Ensure Test Materials are available to the factory for all closed system sales.
- Resolves customers complaints by investigating problems, developing solutions, preparing reports, and providing recommendations.
- Maintains records in SFDC on customer, contacts, changes, and all opportunities.
More information :
- Base pay, unlimited and achievable commission plan
- Sell large, automated, customer engineered, packaging machinery solutions to multiple industries
- Comfortable with helping the customer develop custom engineered solution
- 70% biz dev, 30% mining current customer base in the region, very networking and customer referral based sales
Supervisory Responsibilities : N / A
Competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Abilities) :
- Ability to reason logically and make sound decisions along with considering alternative and diverse perspectives.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, quantitative, prioritization, and time management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Strong negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Ability to understand, remember and follow verbal and written instructions.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and under minimal supervision.
- Ability to work as an integral part of a team.
Education and Experience :
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
- Minimum of 5 years of sales experience required.
- Experience with Salesforce preferred.
- Experience with proposals and quotes strongly preferred.
Travel :
This position requires roughly 2-3 days of travel / week.
Physical Requirements :
- Ability to remain in a stationary position 75% of the time.
- Ability to type on a keyboard.
- Ability to hear and talk.
- Ability to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Ability to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Requires close vision for computer work and reviewing correspondence.
Other Duties :
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job.
Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.