What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Manager position at MEA?
We are seeking a talented Sales Manager with a track record of success selling to small OEMs, contractors, and other commercial customers. The ideal candidate is driven to meet sales goals by serving customers. We have a complete array of products—including profiles and colors—to meet any use of synthetic lumber.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain and serve established customers by routine contact—including in-person visits, phone, email, and other channels—to ensure their satisfaction, and to grow each account
- Proactively call existing, former, and potential customers to determine product needs, usage volume, target pricing, application requirements, and competitive positioning
- Work closely with the sales and marketing team by providing leads, follow ups and any pertinent information available to close sales
- Provide customers with reliable information regarding product pricing and quotations, performance specifications, suitability for an application, availability/lead time and other details regarding ordering and fulfillment processes
- Use sales experience and product knowledge to up-sell the customer appropriately
- Identify target customers: develop and manage the lead list to ensure a constant stream of new business. Work with targets to create an appropriate offering: product, packaging, services, price; and close new business, thereby growing overall revenues.
- Manage and develop relationships with distributors and/or rep groups to serve LTL customers, ensuring full geographic coverage across the US
- Guide and direct NPD efforts on products that will yield best return in terms of sales & margin
- Work closely with the marketing team to get the support needed to close sales and sustain year on year growth
- Be an outstanding and competent spokesperson for the business - providing solutions to customer needs
- Deliver on an aggressive sales revenue budget – you will drive the growth of market share in these segments
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily as well as the ability to handle situations by working as a team. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Strong written and oral communication skills (with both internal and external customers)
- Excellent interpersonal skills. You must effectively interact in a team environment with senior leadership and across functions with colleagues, and with customers
- Ability to relate to/understand situations from various customers’ perspectives and deliver profitable solutions
- Expert in the process of sales – securing new accounts and managing them for long term growth
- Understand the fundamentals of marketing and work with the marketing team to ensure deliverables that will translate to exceptional sales results
- Passionate about engaging customers and be an expert in our product line
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Interested in company results
- MS Office Suite proficient and keyboarding skills
- Able and willing to travel on a regular basis (willing to spend 60 percent of their year traveling & must have a passport)
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Commission pay
Application Question(s):
- What is your required base salary (commission available as well)?
Experience:
- sales: 3 years (Required)
- OEM sales: 1 year (Preferred)
- outdoor or building product sales: 1 year (Preferred)
Willingness to travel:
- 50% (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $70,000 - $110,000