Territory Manager

Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

I. Job Summary
The Territory Manager (TM) generates shareholder value by using a consultative selling approach in prospecting new customers and retaining current WM Customers in the Small/Medium Business (SMB) commercial segment. The TM manages acquisition and retention of SMB customers and prospects through face-to-face interactions in an assigned territory or segment. The TM manages existing business relationships focused on achieving budgeted retention goals by developing and implementing sound retention strategies, utilizing strong negotiation efforts to preserve business, and securing and updating contract agreements from WM customers as well as growing revenues from existing customers. The TM is also responsible for prospecting and closing to achieve budgeted sales goals by developing and implementing sound selling strategies that ensure revenue growth by selling to new customers. The role of the TM is to maintain a net positive business performance in the commercial space through prospecting, proactive outreach, account retention and revenue protection efforts to maintain a mutually beneficial alignment between the prospect or customer and the WM’s growth goals.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.

Customer & Prospect interaction, response & follow up

• Serve as the lead point of contact for prospect & customer account management matters in an assigned book of business, establish and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction with internal and external customers, and build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships 
• Align Waste Management products and services with customer & prospect needs, propose solutions that are compliant with appropriate local, state and federal regulations, and increase account penetration through consultative selling skills 
• Increase revenue and profitability by executing sound plans on prospecting and retention visits to improve the prospects’ and customers’ service and/or profitability
• Effectively manage sales pipelines by developing sound marketing plans and maintaining key information in prospect database
• Negotiate, update, and/or renew customer service agreements to maximize profits by providing ongoing education of contract details and use of strong negotiation skills
• Resolve challenging customer requests, reduce lost accounts by diffusing cancellation requests, and collaborate with Retention Sales Manager to resolve all customer escalations or issues
• Communicate rates, charges and service strategies with conviction as well as understand and effectively use customer incentives and concessions within appropriate profit targets and level of authority
• Collaborate with sales management to identify and grow opportunities within territory and engage additional WM business opportunities, referring internally as appropriate

Cold Calling

• Meets or exceeds sales call activity goals activities to generate new sales opportunities