Global Sales Leader

Golf Pride; Pinehurst (NC); On-site; USD 136,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports equipment brand is seeking an experienced sales executive to drive their global sales strategy from the headquarters in Pinehurst, NC. This role involves mentoring a sales team, developing trade strategies, and understanding market trends to enhance consumer relationships and sales performance. With an expected travel commitment and a focus on fostering a strong sales culture, this position plays a key role in supporting the company's growth vision across diverse global markets.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Competitive pay and benefits

Variable incentive program

Qualifications

• Ten years' experience in sales, with five years in a leadership role.
• Experience in consumer goods products is essential.
• Ability to manage global teams and sales models.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement customer and trade vision to support growth strategy.
• Lead and mentor a global sales team, fostering collaboration.
• Work cross-functionally to execute sales strategies and activation plans.

Skills

Sales Leadership

Change Management

Strategic Thinking

Market Analysis

Relationship Building

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

May 30, 2025 Share this article

Golf Pride, the #1 golf grip brand worldwide, aims to strengthen our commercial leadership team, and the global brand with an experienced sales executive. This position reports to the Golf Pride Chief Commercial Officer andis based out of our state-of-the-art Golf Pride headquarters in Pinehurst, NC. Relocation assistance is available. Up to 40% travel is expected.

You will be the driving force behind our channel strategy across all global markets, including North and South America, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and Asia. Reporting to the Commercial Director, you will have the freedom to build and execute a comprehensive customer and trade strategy that aligns with our consumer growth vision. In the long term, you will build a high-performance sales culture, prepare compelling consumer-driven proposals, and thoughtfully assess opportunities for growth in underdeveloped markets. To achieve this, you will partner closely with product management and other cross-functional teams to strategically define and elevate our sales direction, emphasizing the desire for an enhanced consumer and customer experience.

What you’ll do:

In this role, you will…

• Develop and implement a customer and trade vision that speaks to how our relationships must evolve to support the consumer growth strategy across all channels, regions and lines of business. Current global sales channels include Retail, Green-Grass (Golf Course), OEM (Golf Club Manufacturers), and Owned retail store
• Lead, mentor, and develop a global sales team, fostering a culture of collaboration, change management, and accountability
• Work with product & marketing leaders to develop a compelling way to bring consumer growth strategy to market
• Serve as an advocate for ensuring customer perspective is clearly understood at Golf Pride
• Evaluate & reinforce sales processes to ensure efficiency, scalability, and alignment with other commercial functions (ex. SIOP)
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with global customers, ensuring Golf Pride strategies continue to deliver measurable value
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product management, and commercial operations, to execute customer-level sell-thru activation plans & efficient monthly sales execution
• Assess and understand market trends, customer unmet needs, and the competitive landscape to identify, test, and scale new growth opportunities

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience in sales.
• Minimum five (5) years of sales leadership experience.
• Minimum two (2) years’ experience in consumer good products.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience managing both direct and indirect sales models.
• Sales/operations experience in major global markets (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific).
• Well-rounded business executive with a strong track record in change management, global channels, and commercial process.
• Proven leader in developing channel leaders of varying tenure and experience in a matrixed organization.
• Results-oriented with a strong sense of accountability, high P&L acumen, and desire to build management systems that drive sustainable results.
• Believer in consumer marketing & desire to drive consumer behavior-changing activation of product or promotional campaigns
• Strong executive presence, able to quickly establish credibility and trust with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Shine in situations where the decisions are not obvious and there are difficult choices to make, considering multiple points of functional feedback on the right thing to do for Golf Pride
• An advocate for the customer and their experience by leveraging insights to ensure we are addressing unmet needs.
• Authentic golf knowledge & passion with understanding of industry and consumer.

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