Johnson Controls

Area Service Sale Leader-Texas & Central Plains

Johnson Controls$140K — $180K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or a technical discipline.
  • 10+ years of experience in HVAC, building systems, or complex B2B sales.
  • Successful track record in driving service sales growth and profitability.
  • Deep understanding of commercial HVAC service offerings and CRM sales management.
  • Strong ability to influence and coach without direct authority in a matrixed setting.
  • Experienced in identifying and developing sales talent with a focus on succession planning.
  • Excellent communication skills with executives and front-line teams.

Responsibilities

  • Translate service growth strategy into market priorities and execution plans.
  • Deliver on operating plans for service volume and revenue targets.
  • Ensure service growth priorities are executable with clear role definitions and accountability.
  • Identify and address performance gaps across market and customer segments.
  • Lead regular service sales management meetings and planning sessions.
  • Enhance pipeline quality through disciplined CRM utilization and opportunity management.
  • Build executive relationships to foster new business and retention opportunities.

Benefits

  • Collaborative team environment emphasizing safety and customer impact.
  • 15 days of vacation in the first year.
  • Comprehensive benefits package including 401(k), medical, dental, and vision care available immediately.
  • Opportunities for growth within a respected global leader in building solutions.
Full Job Description
Area Service Sales Leader

Johnson Controls is a global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings. In this enterprise leadership role, you will help shape HVAC service sales execution across one of seven North America Areas and translate strategy into local market action.

You will partner closely with Area and market leaders to accelerate profitable service volume growth, recurring revenue, customer retention, and service attachment. This is an influence-based role without direct reports, focused on aligning front-line leaders, coaching teams, and creating clear execution discipline across the Area.

 

Role Overview

The Area Service Sales Leader serves as the connective point between North America service strategy and local market execution. You will work with the Area VP, Area Sales Leader, Area Service Leader, Market General Managers, front-line sales leaders, service operations, and service enablement teams to ensure the Area has the priorities, rhythms, and capability needed to deliver annual service growth targets.

 

Key Responsibilities
  • Translate North America and Area service growth strategy into clear market priorities, execution plans, and performance expectations.
  • Deliver the Area operating plan for service volume, revenue, margin, recurring revenue, retention, and service attachment.
  • Ensure service growth priorities are executable at the market level through role clarity, standard work, defined sales motions, and visible accountability.
  • Diagnose performance gaps by market, customer segment, seller, offering, and funnel stage, then align corrective actions with local and Area leaders.
  • Lead a consistent weekly, monthly, and quarterly service sales management cadence across the Area.
  • Drive pipeline sufficiency by line of business and improve opportunity quality, stage discipline, conversion, velocity, aging, and CRM adoption.
  • Strengthen forecast accuracy and use performance data to identify risks, remove barriers, and scale best practices.
  • Build relationships with strategically important customers and executive stakeholders to shape opportunities and accelerate growth.
  • Drive new planned service agreement bookings, renewal and retention performance, recapture of the installed base, and lifecycle value selling.
  • Partner with systems sales and service operations to increase service attachment at the point of sale and across the customer lifecycle.
  • Coach and enable Market General Managers, front-line sales leaders, and service sales teams through influence rather than direct authority.
  • Support onboarding, sales methodology adoption, account planning, opportunity coaching, performance inspection, and leadership standard work.
  • Assess seller capacity, coverage, productivity, and capability needs and recommend targeted resource or development actions.
  • Act as the service sales coordination point among the Area VP, Area Sales Leader, Area Service Leader, local market leaders, and functional partners.
  • Partner with service operations to align growth ambition, customer commitments, labor capacity, solution quality, and execution readiness.
  • Collaborate with Service Sales Enablement to drive strategy adoption and commercial execution across the Area.
  • Lead adoption of service sales motions, programs, tools, and standard operating procedures across local markets.

 

How You Will Do It
  • Own outcomes with accountability, safety, and integrityby setting clear expectations, following through on commitments, and reinforcing disciplined execution across the Area.
  • Stay close to the work and remove obstacles for customersby using market data, field insight, and direct leader engagement to solve issues quickly and keep growth plans executable.
  • Improve every day through candor, continuous improvement, and structured problem solvingby inspecting performance, challenging assumptions, and turning gaps into practical actions.
  • Win as one teamby building trust across sales, service operations, enablement, and branch leadership, and by using diverse perspectives to strengthen decisions.
  • Use CRM data, pipeline reviews, account plans, and forecast discussions to create visibility and focus on the right opportunities.
  • Coach leaders on observable sales behaviors, customer engagement, and follow-through so that strategy is translated into repeatable market execution.
  • Maintain a steady operating rhythm that supports clear priorities, timely intervention, and consistent learning across markets.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, a technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Typically 10+ years of progressive experience in HVAC, building systems, technical services, or complex B2B sales, including leadership of multi-market growth initiatives.
  • Demonstrated success delivering service sales growth, recurring revenue, profitability, pipeline health, and forecast accuracy.
  • Strong knowledge of commercial HVAC service offerings, planned service agreements, customer economics, contract-based services, selling models, and CRM-enabled sales management.
  • Proven ability to lead through influence, coach leaders, and drive accountability without direct reporting authority in a matrixed organization.
  • Experience identifying, onboarding, coaching, and developing sales talent and supporting succession planning.
  • Ability to communicate credibly with executive customers, Area Vice Presidents, systems sales and service operations leaders, and front-line teams.
  • Strong financial acumen, analytical capability, structured problem solving, change leadership, and learning agility.
  • Ability to travel throughout the assigned Area as business needs require.

Why Join Us

You will join a collaborative team environment with a strong focus on safety, customer impact, and growth. Johnson Controls offers opportunities to lead meaningful work in a business that supports customers every day. The role also includes a competitive salary, 15 days of vacation in the first year, and a comprehensive benefits package including 401(k), medical, dental, and vision care available day one.If you are ready to lead service sales growth across a key region, we would like to hear from you.

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $140k-180k (Salary to be determined by the education, experience,knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with marketdata.) This role offers a competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group,and corporate performance. This position includes a competitive benefits package. Theposted salary range reflects the target compensation for this role. However, we recognizethat exceptional candidates may bring unique skills and experiences that exceed the typicalprofile. If you believe your background warrants consideration beyond the stated range, weencourage you to apply. To support an efficient and fair hiring process, we may usetechnology assisted tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help identify and evaluatecandidates. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers. For details, pleasevisit the About Us tab on the Johnson Controls Careers site at
https://jobs.johnsoncontrols.com/about-us

About Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls International plc is a multinational conglomerate headquartered in Cork, Ireland that produces automotive parts such as batteries and electronics and HVAC equipment for buildings. It employs 105,000 people in around 2,000 locations across six continents. As of 2019, it was listed as 389th in the Fortune Global 500; in 2020, it became ineligible for the list. Johnson Controls was founded in 1885 by Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Originally called the Johnson Electric Service Company, it focused on automatic temperature regulation. In 1974, the company changed its name to Johnson Controls.
Learn more about Johnson Controls
Size
101,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$923 million
Founded
1885
5 Year Trend
+2.1%
Revenue
$22 billion
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