Sales Manager

MEA
Dayton, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 7/8/2023 CLOSED ON 1/10/2024

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

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