Marcum Search has been retained by our growing client in the building product industry to search for their next Director of Sales . The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial and have a high level of accountability.
Summary
We are a leading North American manufacturer and marketer of a building envelope portfolio of products seeking a Director of Sales to lead a market-driven share growth sales strategy. In this role, you will be responsible for developing a strategy, assuring strategy execution, meeting revenue budgets, and leading opportunity pursuit. You will be a member of the Leadership Team reporting to the COO and working alongside other senior leaders. You must be a subject matter expert, lead a dynamic sales team, foster customer relationships, and collaborate with other departments to ensure effective, cohesive, highly competitive execution and on-budget revenue generation. If you have a history of leading on budget, share gain, and inspiring sales and marketing teams to take market share, you should apply for this role.
Responsibilities
Leadership
- Be a patient listener.
- Recruit, train, and lead a high-performance sales team.
- Foster a collaborative and motivated team-building environment.
- Set clear performance expectations and provide ongoing coaching and feedback.
- Inspire commitment through delegation, encouragement, compromise, and mentoring.
- Demonstrate a preoccupation with customer needs, motivations, and agendas.
- Understand and seek to improve your impact on situations and people.
- Demonstrate your ability to adjust to the demands of the situation.
- Demonstrate your ability to reflect, study, accept, and change.
- Lead and expect commitment, truthfulness, and transparency.
- Lead unpopular and necessary actions and confrontations.
Sales Strategy
- Create long-term goal clarity. Be obsessed with planning and building company value.
- Develop a comprehensive sales strategy that assures the company is competitively aligned with market needs and prepared to rapidly adapt as changes are needed.
- Analyze market trends, competitor activities, and customer needs to identify sales growth opportunities. Make well-informed and timely decisions.
- Leverage technology to streamline workflows and increase customer influence.
- Collaborate with marketing, product development, and other departments to align sales strategies with overall business objectives.
- Share market feedback with internal teams to foster value improvement.
Revenue Generation
- Take responsibility for setting and meeting sales and margin budgets.
- Analyze key performance indicators and decisively respond to them.
- Lead effective forecasting and pipeline management processes.
- Anticipate potential risks and then implement strategies that mitigate them.
- Develop and maintain robust contingency plans that ensure business continuity.
Relationship Management
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with strategic customers and partners.
- Ensure customer satisfaction through effective communication and rapid problem resolution.
Resource Allocation
- Ensure effective allocation of budgeted resources.
- Monitor and control budgeted expenses.
- Assure activity and expense alignment.
Performance Assessment, Reporting, and Response
- Regularly measure sales performance data and report results to leadership.
- Be excited about data interpretation and respond decisively.
- Present market trends, competitive activities, and opportunities to lead improvement and support investment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, sales, marketing, or a related field. MBA is a plus.
- Successful sales strategy implementation record. Building product experience is a plus.
- Senior sales management and field sales experience. National scale is a plus.
- Proven sales, leadership, and team management skills. Multi-level experience is a plus.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Proven strategic thinker with comprehensive analytical and CRM skills.
- Functional knowledge of market dynamics, trends, and technologies.
- Excellent analytical, computer, presentation, and collaboration tool skills.
- A personality that is insightful, competitive, forward-thinking, and persistently curious.
- Integrity-centered, naturally collaborative, and inherently net positive personal values.
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