Distribution Sales Manager

Amphenol CDI; Saint Augustine (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Amphenol CIT in Saint Augustine, FL seeks a Distribution Sales Manager to drive profitable growth with assigned distributor accounts. You will own commercial performance and develop distributor strategies, coordinating with OEM sales to maximize outcomes across channels.

Expect strong English communication skills, a business/ops background, and at least five years of relevant experience. Travel will be frequent as part of distributor reviews and engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in business, logistics or operations management or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five years of relevant career experience.

Responsibilities

• Own commercial performance for assigned distributor accounts including revenue and growth.
• Lead distributor strategies and joint business plans aligned to growth priorities.
• Drive market share expansion via targeted sales initiatives and pricing alignment.
• Increase product penetration and portfolio diversification within distributor bases.
• Coordinate with OEM sales to optimize outcomes across channels.

Skills

Learning agility

Technical aptitude

Executive presentation

Relationship building

Internal coordination

English communication

Education

Business/Logistics/Operations degree

Job description

Headquartered in St. Augustine, FL, with offices and manufacturing facilities all around the globe, Amphenol CIT is one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of high-performance wire, cable, and medical devices. We provide complete interconnect solutions to industries like Aerospace, Military & Defense Electronics, Space, Medical, Test & Measurement, and Industrial.

Our talented team of employees worldwide helps bring movies to your seat on airplanes, deliver mission-critical information from drones to the command office, transfer heart rhythm to paper, route communications from space, connect power to downhill oil drills, and get planes back in the air faster. At Amphenol CIT, we make the amazing possible.

SUMMARY

The Distribution Sales Manager’s primary role is to drive profitable growth and market share expansion through assigned distributor accounts.

Through this role, the Distribution Sales Manager (DSM) owns distributor commercial performance, including revenue growth, market share expansion, product line diversification, demand generation effectiveness, and pricing performance. The DSM builds on existing relationships and cultivates new relationships within target distributor accounts, and utilizes business tools and analytics improve alignment, visibility, and velocity of business between ACIT and its distributor partners.

The DSM oversees distributor account strategy development, business planning, and execution across sales, marketing, pricing, and operations.

The DSM reports to the Director of Channel Management and is deeply involved in the end ‑ to ‑ end sales process for assigned distributor accounts. This is a customer ‑ facing role requiring regular in ‑ person participation in distributor business reviews, ride ‑ alongs, trade shows, and other commercial engagements.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Own overall commercial performance for assigned distributor accounts, including revenue, market share, margin, and growth objectives.
• Lead development and execution of distributor account strategies and joint business plans aligned to ACIT growth priorities.
• Drive market share expansion through targeted sales initiatives while aligning with broader ACIT distribution channel strategy.
• Increase product penetration and portfolio diversification within distributor customer bases.
• Support OEM sales team by coordinating on common sales leads and initiatives, ensuring the best outcomes for ACIT regardless of path to market.
• Translate ACIT demand generation and marketing initiatives into actionable distributor execution plans.
• Leverage Point of Sale data to provide insights on business growth, share evolution, demand trends to sales and product management organizations.
• Support and influence distributor pricing execution to improve price realization and profitable growth.
• Support strategic pricing decisions impacting revenue, share, or key customer relationships.
• Support monthly and quarterly forecasting processes for assigned accounts using business intelligence tools and analytics.
• Lead monthly and quarterly distributor reviews covering POS trends, new customer acquisition, high-running part numbers, and growth opportunities.
• Coordinate and / or deliver distributor product training to distributor sales teams or end customers.

*Other duties may be assigned*

SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Not applicable.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Business, Logistics or Operations Management undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.

Minimum of five years of relevant career experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, write, speak and understand English. Employee should have the ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures,or governmental regulations. Employee should have the ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Employee should also have the abilityto effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and thegeneral public. Spanish language fluency is highly desirable but not required.

JOB SKILLS

• High learning agility and strong technical aptitude to learn the key details about ACIT’s products, processes and customers.
• High energy, drive and sense of urgency to meet internal and external customer expectations.
• Ability to deliver high-quality, high-impact presentations to internal and customer executive audience.
• High learning agility needed to understand ACIT’s products and business processes.
• Highly motivated; possess the desire to set and meet high performance standards based on excellence for the benefit of the customer, the individual, team members and internal customers.
• Ability to coordinate and build relationships internally to support efforts and the account.
• Has a thorough understanding and operates under ACIT’s policies and procedures. Has generalized working knowledge of the process and procedures that relate to the sales department’s “internal customers.”
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Maintains professional appearance and conduct.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Work is performed in a normal office environment with minimal physical risks involved. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

TRAVEL

30-50%

AMPHENOL CIT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MODIFY, INTERPRET, OR APPLY THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IN ANY WAY THE COMPANY DESIRES. THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IN NO WAY IMPLIES THAT THESE ARE THE ONLY DUTIES, INCLUDING ESSENTIAL DUTIES, TO BE PERFORMED BY THE EMPLOYEE OCCUPYING THIS POSITION. THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS NOT AN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE. THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP REMAINS "AT-WILL." THE AFOREMENTIONED JOB REQUIREMENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE TO REASONABLY ACCOMMODATE QUALIFIED DISABLED INDIVIDUALS.

Due to the nature of our business, the candidate must be able to legally work in the United States; we are unable to provide sponsorship. Position requires candidate to be a U.S. person as defined in ITAR, 22 CFR 120.15 (U.S. Citizenship or Resident Alien Status) and defined by 8 U.S.C. 1101(a) (20).

Amphenol CIT participates in the United States Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program. The E‑Verify program is a web-based employment eligibility verification system for newly hired employees operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.