Sales Manager

Job Title: Sales Manager

Department: Sales

Reports To: Vice President of Sales

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Info: $150,000–$175,000

Summary of Benefits:

As a 100% Employee-Owned Company, We Offer:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Company-Paid Life and Disability Coverage
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Comprehensive Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Floating Holidays

About iSPACE Environments:

At iSPACE Environments, sales leaders have the opportunity to build meaningful client relationships, develop high-performing teams, and directly influence the growth of a 100% employee-owned company. We are looking for a strategic, relationship-driven leader who is energized by coaching sales talent, strengthening client partnerships, improving business processes, and helping teams win complex opportunities across furniture, architectural products, and technology.

Position Summary: The Sales Manager leads sales execution across iSPACE’s Furniture, Architectural Products, and Technology teams, with direct oversight of Account Executives and Account Managers. This role combines people leadership, sales strategy, pipeline discipline, client development, and cross-functional collaboration to help the team achieve revenue, margin, forecast accuracy, and client relationship goals. The ideal candidate is a strong coach and operator who can build accountability, improve sales practices, and help a growing team perform at a higher level.

Ideal Candidate Profile: The strongest candidates for this role will bring proven sales leadership experience, strong business acumen, comfort leading through change, and the ability to coach experienced sales professionals while creating accountability around pipeline quality, forecasting, margin discipline, and client relationship development. Experience in commercial interiors, contract furniture, architectural products, technology integration, construction, real estate, or a related project-based sales environment is highly valuable.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following satisfactorily; other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Sales Manager Specific Responsibilities:

• Leads sales planning, execution, and accountability across assigned teams by translating company goals into clear team priorities, performance expectations, pipeline targets, coaching rhythms, and measurable sales outcomes.
• Leads sales forecasting activities by reviewing pipeline quality, opportunity stage accuracy, close probability, timing, revenue potential, margin expectations, and risk factors; uses this information to coach team members and communicate performance trends to leadership.
• Holds the sales team accountable for consistent CRM hygiene, including timely and accurate updates to contacts, companies, opportunities, activities, forecasts, and pipeline data.
• Drives accountability for project profitability by monitoring margin performance, supporting disciplined pricing decisions, identifying risk areas, and coaching team members to protect financial outcomes.
• Recruits, onboards, coaches, develops, and evaluates sales team members to strengthen performance, improve accountability, support career growth, and ensure the team has the capabilities needed to meet business goals.
• Provides guidance to team members and client-facing partners on sales approach, positioning, presentation strategy, relationship development, negotiation, and closing activities.
• Recommends and manages account, market, and territory assignments to align team capacity, client needs, growth opportunities, and company priorities.
• Uses market insight, client feedback, competitor activity, sales data, and industry trends to identify growth opportunities, strengthen positioning, support pricing decisions, and guide team focus across key accounts, vertical markets, and strategic pursuits.
• Partners with sales team members on key client relationships, strategic pursuits, presentations, negotiations, and closing strategies while helping team members strengthen their own client leadership capabilities.
• Coordinates communication and collaboration between sales, design, project management, engineering, operations, marketing, technology, and other related teams to support a consistent client experience.
• Prepares and communicates sales performance updates, including revenue, margin, pipeline health, forecast accuracy, client development activity, key pursuits, risks, and areas for market or account expansion.
• Champions the appropriate use of AI tools and sales enablement resources to improve productivity, decision-making, client communication, forecasting accuracy, and overall business performance.

Serve as a Steward of iSPACE Core Values and Brand

• We are EXPERTS: We provide well thought out solutions to support our client’s business needs.
• We are RESOURCEFUL: We will find ways to get it done and make it look easy.
• We VALUE all PARTNERSHIPS: Our partners are not viewed as transactions, but friends. We support each other and celebrate in each other’s successes.
• We believe in TEAMWORK: All of us together are better than each of us alone
• We have FUN: Having fun is part of our work experience. We bring our culture to life by enjoying ourselves and each other
• We Are OWNERS: We are 100% employee owned. We think and act like owners, making every decision count for our collective success.

Other duties as needed to meet business needs

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following.

• Business Acumen - Understands business implications of decisions; Displays orientation to profitability; Demonstrates knowledge of market and competition; Aligns work with strategic goals.
• Change Management – Builds commitment and overcomes resistance. Communicates change effectively. Develops workable implementation plans. Monitors transition and evaluates results. Prepares and supports those affected by change.
• Leadership – Exhibits confidence in self and others. Inspires respect and trust. Motivates others to perform well. Responds well under pressure. Shows courage to take action.
• Managing People – Develops employees’ skills and encourages growth. Involves team members in planning. Makes oneself available to provide guidance and support. Provides clear direction, regular performance feedback, and accountability for team results.
• Quality Management – Fosters quality focus in others. Improves processes, products and services. Measures key outcomes. Sets clear quality requirements. Solicits and applies customer feedback.
• Strategic Thinking - Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; Understands organization's strengths & weaknesses; Analyzes market and competition; Identifies external threats and opportunities; Adapts strategy to changing conditions.