District Sales Manager - Southeast

Spirax-Sarco Engineering; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic District Sales Manager to lead sales growth in the Southeast territory. This role involves nurturing relationships with channel partners and driving sales through strategic initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in sales management, exceptional communication skills, and a passion for fostering partnerships. Join a collaborative team that values innovation and inclusivity, and enjoy a generous benefits package while making a significant impact in the industrial market. If you are ready to take your career to the next level, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Robust Retirement Plan

Comprehensive Parental Leave

Generous Time Off

Community Engagement Opportunities

Additional Benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years in sales with 3 years in channel partner management.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage relationships with channel partners.
• Implement sales strategies to maximize revenue growth.

Skills

Sales Management

Relationship Building

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Time Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

CRM Software

Microsoft 365

Windows Applications

Job description

Job Title: District Sales Manager - Southeast
Location: WM USA - Virtual
Location Type: Southeast Territory - NC, SC, VA, TN, AR, MS, and FL
Salary: Competitive Base + Quarterly Bonuses + Outstanding Benefits
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

This role will focus on:
This role sells into the industrial market through channel partners in the Southeast. The Southeast region consists of: NC, SC, VA, TN, AR, MS, and FL. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced territory manager. This role is ultimately responsible for growing our industrial sales through channel partners. The ideal candidate will possess a strategic mindset, strong leadership skills, and a passion for driving sales growth through new customer development. This role involves developing and maintaining relationships with our channel partners, and ensuring partner performance aligns with company goals and targets.

What you’ll be doing

1. Develop, manage, and nurture relationships with existing and new channel partners.
2. Develop and implement sales strategies to maximize revenue and growth in accordance with core values.
3. Establish and bring accountability and intentionality around KPIs for each channel partner.
4. Serve as the primary point of contact for indirect sales partners.
5. Identify and recruit new partners to expand the channel network.
6. Develop and maintain suitable pipeline to meet territory sales goals and bring visibility of large opportunities through CRM.
7. Provide product/application/competition training to channel partners sales and support staff.
8. Internal collaboration on key accounts and cross territory projects.
9. Collaborate with Regional Business Development and Marketing.
10. Represent WM, Inc. at trade shows and conferences.
11. Provide market intelligence, competitor and industry trends to upper management to contribute to accurate reporting and forecasting.
12. Foster strong, long-term relationships with key partners to drive continued success and loyalty.
13. Continual evaluation of channel partner performance.
14. Perform quarterly reviews of sales force reviewing goals & objectives.
15. Utilize CRM for all facets of territory management to ensure accurate forecasting.
16. Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

This is what you’ll need to be successful in this role

1. Successful candidate will live within the territory.
2. Minimum of 5 years’ experience in sales, with at least 3 years of channel partner sales management.
3. Ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse partners and stakeholders.
4. Experience selling equipment into the industrial market.
5. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
6. Exceptional oral and written communication skills required to communicate with internal and external contacts.
7. Excellent interpersonal skills and high professionalism.
8. Strong time management skills.
9. Analytical mindset with experience using CRM and sales performance tools.
10. Proficient in Windows applications and Microsoft 365 programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Teams.

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• Robust Retirement Plan: Benefit from a guaranteed 5% employer contribution to your 401K, plus an additional 3% employer match, empowering your financial security.
• Comprehensive and Supportive Parental Leave: Experience our inclusive, gender-neutral parental leave policy, offering 16 weeks at 100% pay. Upon your return, enjoy a gradual transition with a unique 80% work schedule while still receiving 100% of your pay for the first 6 months, ensuring a balanced reintegration into the workplace.
• Generous Time Off: Enjoy ample time off to recharge and attend to life's circumstances with generous vacation and well-being days, 9 observed holidays, 15 caregiver days, and 80 hours of annual sick leave.
• Community Engagement Opportunities: Make a difference with 3 paid volunteer days each year, encouraging you to give back to the community and causes you care about.
• And Many More Benefits: Discover a wide range of additional perks and benefits designed to support your well-being and professional growth. We invite you to explore all the ways we strive to create a fulfilling and rewarding work environment.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments.

Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other protected characteristics as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.