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TK Elevator is currently seeking an experienced Sales Manager- Service/Repair in Houston, TX.

Responsible for driving the revenue, profit margin, and overall sales growth by leading the branch’s sales force across the service/repair lines of business and leads by creating a culture based on being the easiest to do business with. Ensures sales representatives exceed sales goals and objectives.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Safety First - Supports a culture of safety throughout the organization and stresses the importance of safety to all employees. Active participant in the branch safety committee.
• Builds strong customer relationships with branch key customers. Maintains a strong working knowledge of the overall market area movement including market penetration, volume for different lines of business, competitors’ positions and strategies.
• Manages and develops branch’s sales representatives; to include setting sales goals, reviewing sales performance and on-going training and development. Administers quarterly performance management process. Supports sales representatives to ensure their questions and issues are addressed and resolved in a timely manner.
• Leads business growth and fosters relationships with key customers, consultants and architects. Creates synergies within all lines of business, including leadership of the NIM process with the goal of producing 100% on-time conversion. Collaborates with the Operations Teams for strategic leads and labor estimating.
• Supports a culture of customer satisfaction that promotes customer retention. Works with other departments to ensure proactive customer assistance.
• Implements and oversees strategic sales initiatives in keeping with corporate and regional strategic initiatives.
• Develops a consistent and superior brand identity used by all sales employees when making sales presentations and proposals and preparing bids. Identifies areas of sales-skill opportunities and initiates applicable training/coaching as required.
• Ensures all bids are approved based on established approvals levels. Includes ensuring that bids requiring higher level approvals are submitted on million-dollar approval forms in a timely manner; and bids requiring additional approval have forms submitted along with the appropriate approval package.
• Ensures branch sales efforts are run consistently and cohesively. Includes monitoring sales activity using CRM and approving sales incentives.
• Reviews and sets sales goals in line with budgetary and corporate guidelines. Includes approving individual sales goals in line with the budgetary plan along with quarterly reviews of performance to targets. Includes initiating performance management and progressive discipline when goals are not met. Prepares forecasts for booking activity, projecting how much work will be brought in monthly and/or quarterly. Includes reviewing sales reports for analysis and action-planning.
• Strategically reviews P&L and other financial reports to monitor sales performance within the branch to ensure monthly goals are met or exceeded and cancellations are controlled. Works with the Branch Manager and other relevant leaders to review and develop sales budgets.
• Reviews, participates and creates bidding strategies to ensure profitability. Conducts/participates in ITS/factory tours as deemed necessary to demonstrate technical competence and secure customer interest.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's Degree required; Prior personnel management experience preferred
• 7+ Years of directly related sales experience in the elevator industry; Experience selling service/repair, construction, & modernization strongly preferred
• Proven success in B2B field sales with experience selling services in a highly competitive market
• Ability to review and guide direct reports through contract proposals and business correspondence
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions to improve profitability
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form, and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

The final pay offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, the type and years of experience within the industry, education, office location, etc.

Provided they meet all eligibility requirement under the applicable plan documents, employees will be offered medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, supplemental medical plans, basic life insurance, AD&D, short term and long term disability, optional life and AD&D, optional spouse and dependent life insurance, dependent life insurance, flexible spend account, health savings account, identity theft monitoring, pet insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program, and tuition reimbursement. Employees also will be able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Relocation assistance offered for candidates relocating more than 50 miles for this position.

Employees will receive 15 days of paid time off (PTO) per year. Employees will enjoy 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year and 5 paid days of sick leave. Up to six weeks of paid parental leave will be available for use after successful completion of 90-days of full-time employment. Eligibility requirements for these benefits will be controlled by applicable plan documents.

This is intended to provide a general description of benefits and other compensation and is not a substitute for applicable plan documents or company policies.

TK Elevator is an equal opportunity employer and committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, and veteran status or any other protected status required by applicable law.

Applicants with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation in connection with the application process are encouraged to email us directly at ElevatorJobs.ams@tkelevator.com or call 1-844-427-5461.