Regional Sales Manager
Description
Desired location: Atlanta area
Territory: Atlanta, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Mississippi
- Territory Growth & Sustainment:
- Represents and sells stainless/aluminum flat roll primarily slit coil and precision blanks within a sales territory. Identifies, evaluates and develops opportunities/business plan with existing and potential customers to increase market share and expand profitable sales.
- Services existing accounts including OEM’s, contract metal stampers, contract roll formers, and service centers in coordination with Inside Sales, Purchasing, Operations and Quality departments
- Sells products and solutions purposefully, demonstrating product and stainless/aluminum flat roll processing capabilities; makes presentations and proposals to new and existing clients with accountability to core profitability growth and product promotion.
- Negotiates price, inventory commitments, and implementations of contracts/blanket orders in coordination with company policies and customer product requirements.
- Monitor market trends, competitor activity, and pricing dynamics to inform strategy and maintain competitive positioning.
- Sales Execution & Account Management/Servicing:
- Arrange for preparation of sales contracts and/or proposals.
- Provide thorough call reporting on sales performance, customer feedback, and market conditions to senior management.
- Cultivates a team environment and works with inside sales to promote and expand business; develop plan together in order to secure the additional business.
- Works cross functionally and utilizes appropriate internal resources to establish and meet customer expectations; helps solve customer needs and improve service levels.
- Works to improve sales processes and tools required to effectively sell and implement value-added solutions and supply chain strategies to increase efficiencies, drive customer satisfaction, lower costs, etc.
- Participates in forecasting and market analysis when developing sales objectives; understands general economic, industry, and competitive information.
- Coordinates inventory requirements to support customer sales and manages Company inventory assets.
- Understands the components of overall Company profitability and manages those components to drive optimal profitability.
- Sells across the breadth of strategic Castle products.
- Call Reports (CRM): ≥ 60 per month
- Customer Visits: ≥ 15 per week
- Quote / RFQ Volume & Conversion
- Response Time to Opportunities
- Joinh calls with ISR/Leadership
- General office environment, PC use
- Travel, typically via automobile, to customers within territory
- Experience selling stainless/aluminum flat roll primarily slit coil and precision blanks
- Two years of related sales experience with knowledge of business acumen sales techniques and marketing strategies
- Strong customer service orientation with ability to initiate and sustain productive business relationships with customers
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work effectively with all levels in an organization and to make effective presentations to clients
- Good problem-solving skills with ability to develop solutions to customer problems
- Good organizational skills
- PC literacy, proficiency in MS Office suite
- High school diploma or equivalent is required
- Experience in metals, manufacturing, distribution
- Knowledge of Oracle or similar sales software
- Exposure to Sandler sales training programs
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred but not required