Director Low-Rise New Installation Sales - NA

Responsible for ensuring that North Amercia exceeds annual and monthly new installation sales goals and achieves optimum sales volume and profit, supporting sales team capability and development.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Drives the focus on our low-rise market selling highly profitable, executable, and convertible projects and leading new installation sales growth, fostering relationships with key customers, consultants, and architects. Includes collaborating with Area Vice Presidents, RVP’s, VP of Sales Canada, and the Area Sales Directors to establish goals and objectives and ensuring that new installation staff exceed goals and objectives.
• Supports a culture of safety throughout the organization and stresses the importance of safety to all employees.
• Implements sales initiatives and use of TKE sales tools in keeping with corporate and Area strategic initiatives and reporting requirements. Acts as a conduit for the Commercial Sales Team within the Area.
• Forecasting order intake at the job level on a weekly basis to ensure budgets are met.
• Supports onboarding and development of new installation Sales Representatives. Helps to recruit, train, mentor, coach, evaluate and collaborate with General Managers and Sales Managers for discipline and accountability of employees. Supports Sales Representatives to ensure their questions and issues are addressed and resolved, timely.
• Actively participates in STEP Program, including fostering college partnerships, campus recruiting, program delivery, collaboration with seed Campus team, and successful onboarding of trainees
• Analyzes financials and reports to accurately forecast booking activity on a monthly and quarterly basis. Includes working with Area Vice Presidents to set Area budgets.
• Drives the focus on pre-selling activities. Includes conducting lunch & learns, presenting and meeting with general contractors, developing strong working relationships with architects to foster BOD specifications, and develops and maintains strong working relationships with consultants.
• Reviews and creates bidding strategies for large or complex new installation jobs to ensure profitability. Includes participating in approval process and $Mil+ bid process. Participates in contract administration calls. Attends scope reviews and bid buyouts.
• Monitors on-going new installation jobs and focuses on margin improvement through change orders.
• Review & monitor sales performance, participating in monthly CRM review calls.
• Maintains strong familiarity of company products by attending company training classes and reviewing factory equipment updates and supplier goods. Includes maintaining a strong understanding of TKE, and its regional and company mission and objectives, ethical standards, and code of conduct.
• Supports a culture of customer satisfaction that promotes customer retention. Works with other departments to ensure proactive customer assistance.
• Maintains familiarity of the overall market Area, including sales backlog, service and repair volume, market penetration, volume of outstanding bids, available new business, special projects, and staffing requirements and availability.
• Implements Area-wide NIM strategy consistent with company guidelines with the goal of producing 100% on-time conversion. Collaborates with branch and Area management to negotiate maintenance conversion.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 10+ years directly related sales experience in the elevator industry, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience working with long sales cycles.
• Proven success in B2B field sales, with experience selling services in a highly competitive market.
• Ability to write reports, contract proposals and business correspondence.
• Ability to define problems collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions to improve profitability.
• Ability to present effectively to customers, lead meetings and present to groups of people.

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 or call 1-844-427-5461.