ROLE PURPOSE
The Associate Regional Director-Sales(East) owns the end-to-end revenue, market-share and customer agenda for a zone (East)
The role stands up KAM, hunting and partnership orchestration from the ground up to establish Milacron's presence and accelerate wallet-share gain
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Zonal P&L & Revenue Ownership
- Own zonal revenue, market-share gain and the monthly MBR cadence
- Set territory and account plans; deliver new-zone entry strategy and ramp
- Manage customer escalations and zone-level commercial structuring
Key Account Leadership
- Personally own the top key accounts (Platinum + Gold) – relationship and escalation management
- Drive wallet-share gain across new machines, retrofit, cross-sell and AMC / M-Powered penetration
Team Build-out & Deployment
- Own territory design, SE deployment, KAM plan and their role development
- Build hunting capability for whitespace and underpenetrated clusters
Cross-functional Orchestration
- Liaise with the Partnership / Commercial Excellence Head, Marketing Head and Aftermarket Head at HO
- Orchestrate mould-maker / auxiliary / financier ecosystem at zone level
- Drive CRM adoption and pipeline governance across the zone
SUCCESS METRICS / KPIs
- Revenue & Share
- Zonal revenue vs target
- Zone market-share (%)
- New accounts acquired
- Accounts
- Top-account wallet-share increase
- Key-account NPS
- Cross-sell / upsell
- Team & Coverage
- Team productivity per SE
- KAM coverage of Platinum / Gold
- CRM adherence; hiring vs plan
KEY SKILL REQUIREMENTS
- Technical & Commercial
- Regional GTM and new-region entry strategy
- Commercial structuring and deal escalation
- IMM products sales management across series
- Analytics & Planning
- Regional performance dashboards
- Territory and pipeline analytics
- Team productivity & coverage modelling
- CRM fluency
- Interpersonal & Leadership
- C-suite customer relationship management
- Team leadership across SEs and sales team
- Conflict resolution & escalation handling
- Behavioral
- Results-oriented & decisive
- Customer-first mindset
- Hands-on leadership style
- Entrepreneurial in standing up a new zone
EXPERIENCE PROFILE
- 15+ years in B2B industrial / capital-goods sales, with 4–6 years in regional / zonal sales leadership
- Demonstrated regional revenue ownership and team build-out, ideally in a new-market / greenfield context
- Strong key-account and C-suite relationship track record
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering. MBA will be an added advantage. #LI-KR1