Director of Sales North America

Laminating Services, Inc.

$120K — $150K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS in Marketing or Business Management; MBA in Marketing preferred
  • 10+ years of leading sales, marketing, and/or design functions in commercial interiors
  • Experience in a manufacturing organization with a focus on aesthetically appealing products
  • Leadership experience in a design organization with strong production know-how
  • Strong leadership and management skills that include mentoring creative teams
  • Excellent communication skills for selling ideas and gaining support
  • Proven ability to build customer relationships for business development
  • Strong creative problem-solving skills in marketing and advertising

Responsibilities

  • Manage and nurture relationships with customers at all levels
  • Drive product placement and implement stocking programs
  • Develop and maintain a robust sales pipeline through follow-ups
  • Lead educational initiatives with distribution partners in various formats
  • Collaborate with product development, marketing, and R&D teams for responsive market feedback
  • Develop and oversee pricing strategies
  • Contribute to managing alignment within market segments
  • Conduct sales forecasting with emphasis on accuracy

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Opportunity to travel approximately 50% for business development
  • Role in educational initiatives enhancing industry knowledge
  • Engagement in creative problem-solving and strategy development
Full Job Description
Job Summary: Responsible for driving wallcovering sales/revenue in North America. Customer base is distributors in both the contract and residential segments. Close collaboration with the Versa Design/Marketing/Customer Service/Administrative teams is required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for customer relationships, including executive, management and inside/ outside sales teams
  • Drive product placement and stocking programs
  • Sales pipeline development and follow-up
  • Lead educational effort with distribution partners both in-person and electronically
  • Collaboration with product development, marketing and R&D teams to provide market responsive feedback
  • Develop and monitor pricing strategies
  • Contribute to market segment alignment management
  • Sales forecasting
  • Approximately 50% travel required


Qualification Requirements:

  • BS in Marketing or Business Management, MBA in Marketing preferred
  • 10+ years of leading the sales, marketing and/or design functions in a commercial interiors' environment
  • Experience in a manufacturing organization designing and marketing a product that is manufacturing friendly, possesses aesthetic appeal and salable qualities.
  • Experience leading a design team in a well-respected design organization. Strong production know-how, especially in the printing space
  • Strong leadership/management skills and experience in mentoring/nurturing creative teams
  • Highly collaborative and flexible
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to sell in ideas and gain support for initiatives
  • Proven ability to cultivate and build customer relationships and leverage for business development gains.
  • Proven ability to translate strategic goals into innovative creative
  • Strong creative problem-solving skills relative to marketing and advertising


Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are the representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to computer screens using keyboard functions and other hand usage.

**The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change. The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

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