Area Service Growth Leader

Johnson Controls, Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 days vacation in first year

401(k) benefits

Competitive salary

Job summary

Johnson Controls, a global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, seeks an Area Service Sales Leader to shape HVAC service sales across NA Areas and translate strategy into local market action. You will partner with Area and market leaders to drive service volume growth, recurring revenue, retention, and service attachment.

This role emphasizes influence over direct reporting, alignment of front-line leaders, and disciplined execution with a focus on annual targets and customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, a technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Typically 10+ years of progressive experience in HVAC, building systems, technical services, or complex B2B sales, including leadership of multi-market growth initiatives.
• Demonstrated success delivering service sales growth, recurring revenue, profitability, pipeline health, and forecast accuracy.
• Strong knowledge of commercial HVAC service offerings, planned service agreements, customer economics, contract-based services, selling models, and CRM-enabled sales management.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, coach leaders, and drive accountability without direct reporting authority in a matrixed organization.
• Experience identifying, onboarding, coaching, and developing sales talent and supporting succession planning.
• Ability to communicate credibly with executive customers, Area Vice Presidents, systems sales and service operations leaders, and front-line teams.
• Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, structured problem solving, change leadership, and learning agility.
• Ability to travel throughout the assigned Area as business needs require.

Responsibilities

• Translate North America and Area service growth strategy into clear market priorities, execution plans, and performance expectations.
• Deliver the Area operating plan for service volume, revenue, margin, recurring revenue, retention, and service attachment.
• Ensure service growth priorities are executable at the market level through role clarity, standard work, defined sales motions, and visible accountability.
• Diagnose performance gaps by market, customer segment, seller, offering, and funnel stage, then align corrective actions with local and Area leaders.
• Lead a consistent weekly, monthly, and quarterly service sales management cadence across the Area.
• Drive pipeline sufficiency by line of business and improve opportunity quality, stage discipline, conversion, velocity, aging, and CRM adoption.
• Strengthen forecast accuracy and use performance data to identify risks, remove barriers, and scale best practices.
• Build relationships with strategically important customers and executive stakeholders to shape opportunities and accelerate growth.
• Drive new planned service agreement bookings, renewal and retention performance, recapture of the installed base, and lifecycle value selling.
• Partner with systems sales and service operations to increase service attachment at the point of sale and across the customer lifecycle.
• Coach and enable Market General Managers, front-line sales leaders, and service sales teams through influence rather than direct authority.
• Support onboarding, sales methodology adoption, account planning, opportunity coaching, performance inspection, and leadership standard work.
• Assess seller capacity, coverage, productivity, and capability needs and recommend targeted resource or development actions.
• Act as the service sales coordination point among the Area VP, Area Sales Leader, Area Service Leader, local market leaders, and functional partners.
• Partner with service operations to align growth ambition, customer commitments, labor capacity, solution quality, and execution readiness.
• Collaborate with Service Sales Enablement to drive strategy adoption and commercial execution across the Area.
• Lead adoption of service sales motions, programs, tools, and standard operating procedures across local markets.

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, a technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience

Job description

Johnson Controls, a global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, seeks an Area Service Sales Leader to shape HVAC service sales across NA Areas and translate strategy into local market action. You will partner with Area and market leaders to drive service volume growth, recurring revenue, retention, and service attachment.

This role emphasizes influence over direct reporting, alignment of front-line leaders, and disciplined execution with a focus on annual targets and customer