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Eaton
Sales Director, Mountain District
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What they do
A Director of Sales directs and is responsible for performance of sales for an entire organization. May manage sales managers. Plans and directs sale of products or services to customers. Coordinates sales distribution. Establishes sales territories, quotas and/or goals for staff, and provides training for sales representatives.
$176,421 / year median in Arizona
-7% projected decline
Job Description
Eaton's Electrical North American Sales division is currently seeking a District Sales Director for the Mountain District which includes Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Eastern Nevada (Las Vegas, Elko), southeast portion of Idaho and northwest portion of Nebraska. This position can be based at the following Eaton locations: Las Vegas NV, Littleton CO or Chandler AZ. Reporting to the Vice President, Sales, West Region, the District Sales Director is responsible for directing all sales activities to achieve performance goals in accordance with marketing and sales plans. This position requires coaching, directing and training sales professionals in their respective assignments to succeed at managing and developing their customer base, leveraging internal and external sales resources, driving products and the channel to market to achieve market share gains, supporting price attainment goals and executing strategic initiatives throughout the district.
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop financial and strategic commercial sales plans that align to product divisions that result in a coordinated selling effort to exceed annual sales goals and objectives
- Establish new and build on existing relationships with key customers and distributors to enhance sales volume and customer service
- Build organizational capabilities across a district sales team along with enterprise-wide resources to deliver organic growth. Analyze areas of responsibility, recommending changes in sales force structure and design, assignments and selling activities to produce maximum, profitable volume, while achieving the best cost to sales ratio
- Plan, direct, and drive the sales resources to ensure that adequate coverage is applied to accounts
- Understand not only ours but our competitor's products, tactics, strategy, pricing, and competitive position in the district
- Create and execute strategic plans including the implementation of strategic channel and product line initiatives
- Build close relationships with key contractors, distributors and end users to enhance sales volume and deliver growth
- Identify, analyze, select, and continuously improve the districts various channels to market
- Recruit, hire, train, develop, and continuously improve organizational capabilities of sales personnel
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience in Sales and Marketing within commercial electrical product market
- Minimum five (5) years of experience leading a team, directly or indirectly
- Proven Leadership experience managing sales teams, customers and channel
- Proven track record of leading large-scale business development initiatives, driving sales growth, expanding market share, and achieving pricing objectives across diverse markets.
- Must have and maintain an unrestricted driver's license
- Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.
STEM OPT
plans, F-1 toH-1B, H-1B
cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.- No relocation is offered for this position.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Product line marketing and/or operational experience
- MBA preferred
Position Success Criteria:
- Proven leadership skills and ability to successfully manage and resolve conflict
- Experience in and ability to assess, select, develop, motivate, and energize a diverse team in critical areas of sales planning, negotiation, and customer pursuit. Swiftly addresses performance issues
- Knowledge of electrical markets, products, and distribution channels
- Strategic planning and profit planning / VOP planning experience
- Strong commercial acumen with experience in customer development, and the deployment of various sales techniques
- Experience of setting aggressive sales plans and achieving ambitious targets and stretch goals
- Ability and demonstrated experience to identify existing and future growth market opportunities and tailor strategic sales plan and resources to maximize Eaton's top-line and market share position
- Strong customer orientation and focus. Ability to work with all levels of the customer organizations to sell and support products as well as to understand the customer's current and future business needs
- Ability to travel 25% All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
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Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.Benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Unpaid Leave
- Dental Insurance
- Other Retirement and Savings