District Sales Manager

3 Day Blinds; Long Island (KS); Remote; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

3 Day Blinds is seeking a District Sales Manager to build and lead a high-performing sales team within a collaborative culture. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to drive revenue growth, mentor talented Design Consultants, and earn a competitive salary complemented by a generous bonus structure.

Benefits

Sign-on bonus of $8,000

Annual bonus incentive plan up to 25% of base salary

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) plan with employer matching

Short-term and long-term disability benefits

Six weeks of paid parental leave

Employee discounts on products

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of successful experience leading a sales team.
• Proven track record in meeting sales objectives.
• Ability to work flexible hours.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Design Consultants to drive revenue growth.
• Achieve budget and sales targets through effective team management.
• Motivate DCs to capture sales opportunities through various strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Sales Planning

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

3 Day Blinds is a national retailer and manufacturer of quality, custom-made blinds, shades, draperies, and shutters. We are proud to be part of the Hunter Douglas family of brands. Over the last 40 years we’ve successfully helped transform our clients' homes and workplaces by offering a wide variety of products that add beauty and comfort to every space. It takes a talented group of individuals to do what we do, and we do it together as One Team. We strive to create a culture of learning and opportunity, and most importantly, an environment where you can feel passionate and connected to your work every day.

We are searching for candidates that are driven, intelligent, creative, and entrepreneurial. By offering challenging and accelerated opportunities for growth, powered by a shared hunger for success, we create a space for your career to thrive. In return for your expertise, we are committed to providing competitive and robust total compensation and benefit packages to ensure you feel valued. Our dream is to become the fastest growing, most loved, window covering company in the world. What's yours?

In this role, you’ll spend your days making the homes and workspaces of our clients more beautiful, functional, and comfortable by servicing the qualified leads that our award-winning marketing team generates. Everyone in the company is committed to your success, and your District leadership and field support team will work closely with you to help you reach your sales objectives, so you can take full advantage of our generous compensation plan. We also provide you with state-of-the-art training, tools, and resources to support your success. Our product offerings are kept fresh and current to ensure you can expertly meet your client’s preferences and unique buying needs. We are committed to providing our clients with a seamless purchasing experience that is backed by our industry-leading warranty and outstanding client care services, so you can feel confident and proud in your Design Consultant role with 3 Day Blinds.

We are pleased to offer a sign-on bonus of $8,000.

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Regional Sales Director, the District Sales Manager is responsible for building and leading a team of Design Consultants (DCs) who drive profitable revenue growth and delight our clients. Our District Sales Managers provide the leadership, training and support to our DCs, who are measured by their ability to close both company provided quality appointments and self-generate appointments, leading to lucrative earning potential.

We are looking for ambitious and driven people to join the team. We operate in a high-performance, and collaborative culture. If this sounds like it could be you, read on!

What you'll do

Team Development:

• Managing the District in terms of achieving budget and sales targets through close rate, order size, lead generation and service recovery at the district level
• Instill accountability to individual DC sales/marketing activity, through daily interaction centered around constructive questioning & dialogue
• Develop & refine sales skills and techniques through effective facilitation of weekly DC meetings/conference calls
• Educate sales team on products, service offerings, and newest promotions
• Increase success rate of DCs generating appointments on their own and for which the DC earns additional compensation.
• Train and coach DCs to continuously improve Key Performance Metrics and increase their earnings through a combination of team training sessions and one-on-one interactions. Examples of Key Performance Metrics include Revenue per Appointment, ‘First Time Right’ and client satisfaction.

Business Development:

• Motivate & hold DCs accountable to capturing sales opportunities through networking, strategic business partnerships, business-to-business and client relationships, and targeted neighborhood canvassing
• Identify prospective client markets/hotspots and help develop creative strategies for selling into them
• Work with marketing department to help develop repeat programs which yield high self-generated lead returns
• Build, develop, recruit and retain a winning team of active and aggressive DCs
• Meet sales hiring targets by partnering with our world class recruiting team and continuously prospecting for new DC talent
• Conduct annual appraisals of direct reports’ performance and take corrective action as required
• Build a culture of success, recognition, learning and winning

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years of successful experience leading, motivating, and developing a highly dynamic and aggressive outside, in-home sales team
• Demonstrated passion for mentoring and coaching sales employees to success
• Ability to thrive in an interchangeable work environment where at times the needs may be in the field with your team and other times remotely in a work from home setting
• Strong and effective communication, analytical and presentation skills
• Proven track record of success in meeting and exceeding sales objectives
• Ability to work flexible hours to participate in evening and weekend events
• Must possess strong communication skills, a strong worth ethic, high energy, enthusiasm, and the ability to coach and mentor others in a sales environment
• Out of the box prospecting abilities preferred
• Established professional network in local community preferred

What's in it for you?

• Annual base salary range: $110K-$135K
• Bonus incentive plan up to 25% of the base salary
• In addition to competitive pay, you'll receive benefits including medical, dental, vision, time off with pay, and a 401(k) plan with a degree of employer matching.
• We provide short-term and long-term disability benefits at no cost to you! In addition, we offer company-paid life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance with opportunities to elect additional voluntary insurance plans as well.
• We offer eligible employees six weeks of paid parental leave to bond with a child following birth, adoption, or foster placement.
• Enjoy amazing discounts on our 3 Day Blinds products as well as access to various other exclusive discounts.

Please note, all offers presented to candidates are carefully crafted to ensure market competitiveness, equity, and reflect the individual candidate’s education, experience, skills and potential.

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