Sales Manager

Univar Solutions Inc.; Pennsylvania; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Univar Solutions USA LLC is seeking a motivated Sales Manager to lead a local chemical distribution team. You will advise the activities of Sales Account Managers to achieve profitable growth for targeted products, markets, and customers while mentoring their selling skills.

This home-based role covers Texas, Pennsylvania, or Ohio with up to 25% travel for customer visits. The position requires a proven 5+ years of sales leadership, strong relationship building, and strategic pricing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent business experience.
• 5+ years of sales management leading a team or mentoring others.
• Ability to build relationships with key customers and suppliers.
• Strong decision-making balancing customer needs and company objectives.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain sales territories and account assignments for productivity.
• Mentor and develop Sales Account Managers in selling skills.
• Coordinate local sales strategy to support growth plans.
• Assist in hiring and training new team members.
• Conduct joint calls to coach and improve techniques.

Skills

Sales leadership

Territory & account management

Coaching & mentoring

CRM proficiency

Strategic pricing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience

Tools

CRM software

Job description

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The Woodlands, TX, US, 77380 Morrisville, PA, US, 19067 Columbus, OH, US, 43228

Company Name: Univar Solutions USA LLC

Requisition ID: 36018

A Place Where People Matter.

Start your career journey with Univar Solutions! Here you can make an impact on the world around you and accelerate your career in areas that energize and excite you.

Primary Purpose:

We are looking for a motivated and experiencedSales Managerto join our local Chemical Distribution team. You will be responsible for advising the activities of a team of Sales Account Managers to achieve profitable growth for targeted products, markets, and customers along with leading and mentoring the development of their selling skills.

What You'll Do:

• Builds and maintains sales territories and the assignment of accounts to improve productivity.
• Evaluates team members efficiency through the tracking of account activity and sales and margin growth. Implements improvement plans as necessary.
• Mentors Sales Account Managers in identifying and applying market-based pricing strategies and ensures regular reviews and updates occur.
• Assists in the hiring and training of new team members.
• Coordinate and implement local sales strategy to support Univar Solutions product and marketing growth plans.
• Conducts joint sales calls with team to provide first‑hand coaching in selling skills and make recommendations to improve techniques and increase product knowledge.
• Implements, advocates, and utilizes a CRM system. Uses the CRM system as the primary business system to maintain customer profiles, contacts, work notes, and activity management.
• Ensures accurate communication between local sales and corporate accounts, and that support actions required are implemented.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent business experience.
• Proven sales management experience of 5 plus years leading a sales team or leadership skills in mentoring and team building.
• Ability to develop and grow positive relationships with key customer contacts and suppliers.
• High level of decision‑making ability balancing customer needs and company objectives.

Where You’ll Work:

This is a home-based role in Texas, Pennsylvania, or Ohio, with up to 25% travel required for customer visits.

Pay and Benefits:

• The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location.
• Available employee benefits include health, vision, dental coverage, along with industry‑leading retirement and time off programs.

Univar Solutions is a leading, global distributor of chemicals and ingredients essential to the safety, health, and wellbeing of our daily lives from life‑saving medicines and vitamins to hand sanitizers and industrial materials used for cleaning, construction, and more. Our global team of more 9,500 employees support our vision to redefine distribution and be the most valued chemical and ingredient distributor on the planet!

We offer a Total Rewards package that includes market aligned pay and incentives as well as a diverse benefits offering to support our employees' physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing .

Univar Solutions supports sustainable solutions for the world around us so that we can do our part to help keep our communities healthy, fed, clean, and safe!

We are committed to a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion.

Together, we are building a culture that acknowledges the unique experiences, perspectives and expertise of individuals and provides the development and growth opportunities to empower us to redefine our industry.

Univar Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected classification. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the hiring process, please contact us at [e-mail] .

Univar Solutions does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms (collectively Recruiting Firms). Recruiting Firms must enter into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with Univar Solutions prior to submitting any information relating to a potential candidate. All searches must be initiated by Univar Solutions' Talent Acquisition team and candidates must be submitted via Applicant Tracking System (ATS) by approved vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless the aforementioned conditions have been met. Contacting our hiring managers directly is prohibited.