BP

Indirect Area Sales Manager - HD, OH/MI/IN/Western PA

BP$110K — $125K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • 5+ years of sales experience, preferably in the automotive or lubricants industry.
  • Expertise in CRM tools, especially Salesforce, and digital sales platforms.
  • Strong negotiation skills with a focus on value selling.
  • Proven track record in customer relationship management and territory management.

Responsibilities

  • Maximize growth of Castrol PCO brands through both direct and indirect sales channels.
  • Visit customers and prospects four days a week to drive engagement.
  • Support and train distributor sales representatives to optimize Castrol business activity.
  • Cultivate new business opportunities and manage sales pipeline effectively in Salesforce.
  • Leverage PowerBI to analyze account growth and performance metrics.
  • Provide onboarding support for key accounts, including OEM and Walmart ACC.
  • Ensure compliance with bp’s corporate values and standards.

Benefits

  • Generous vacation policy offering up to 240 hours based on experience.
  • 9 paid holidays and 2 personal choice holidays annually.
  • Parental leave policy offering up to 8 weeks of paid leave for new parents.
  • Discretionary annual bonus and long-term incentive programs available.
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance, including life and disability coverage.
Full Job Description
Job Family Group:
Sales Group

Job Description:

The Area Sales Manager (ASM) will sell, grow and support all Castrol Passenger Car Oil (PCO) business in the assigned geography (MI, OH, IN, W. PA) through our distributor network and via direct accounts. PCO ASMs drive results and performance through the execution of key accountabilities described below. Role focuses on new business, account management, and OEM, Walmart ACC and Key Account field activation as required.

Key Accountabilities:
  • Maximize profitable growth of Castrol brands with a focus on premium products and strategic segments including both the direct and indirect sales model.
  • This role is expected to be in the market visiting customers and prospects four days per week.
  • Ensure Distributor Sales Representatives in the assigned area are supported, trained and have the tools needed to drive Castrol business on their paper in Castrol's PCO focused segments.
  • Prospecting, pipeline development in Salesforce and accountability for closing opportunities within territory.
  • Accountable to maintain a robust pipeline for both direct and indirect prospects.
  • Leverage PowerBI to manage territory effectively, by proactively overseeing and managing new, growing, declining, and lost accounts.
  • Demonstrate, teach and train Distributor Sales Representatives on how to prospect and close business using Castrol programs, ensuring access to all selling tools.
  • Support the onboarding of OEM, Walmart ACC and Key Accounts as required.
  • Utilize Salesforce CRM daily to manage account relationships, pipeline, and build connections within both the customer and our organization, leveraging digital tools like PowerBI, Castrol Insights, and Turfview.
  • Compliance with bp's Code of Conduct, Values and Behaviors and HSSE Standards.


Education
  • High School Diploma or equivalent. Bachelor's degree preferred.


Experience/Requirements
  • 80% travel is required for this position (50-60% overnight).
  • Working remotely and autonomously in sales territories.
  • Implement advanced Value Selling techniques to improve value for both our customers and Castrol, negotiate with customers within agreed DOA ensuring not to make any promise that cannot be delivered.
  • Solid ability to identify sources of value and overcome objections.
  • Develop world class partnerships and relationships with large customers.
  • Prospect customers require the Area Sales Manager to actively build new relationships to gain access to business opportunities.
  • Budgeting, forecasting, and financial management skills experience relative to the profitable execution of the sales plan.
  • Fully proficient working with digital sales platforms such as Salesforce and Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Outlook, Teams).


Skills & Competencies
  • Customer Relationship Management, Products and Program Knowledge, Customer Segmentation & Channel Management, Account Strategy & Planning, Distributor Management, Territory Management, Customer Profitability & Value Chain Understanding


How much do we pay (Base)? ($110,000 - $125,000 (Minimum & Maximum)) *Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.

This position is eligible for US Benefits Select. This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 - 240 hours of vacation per year for full time employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at Select SPD Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks' paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more by visiting Select SPD.

We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits include a pension for eligible employee. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Select SPD.

As part of bp's wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Select SPD.

Travel Requirement:
Up to 75% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:
This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:
This position is fully remote

Skills:

About BP

BP p.l.c. is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors" and one of the world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits. It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and extraction, refining, distribution and marketing, power generation, and trading. BP's origins date back to the founding of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1908, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and in 1954, adopted the name British Petroleum. In 1959, the company expanded beyond the Middle East to Alaska. British Petroleum acquired majority control of Standard Oil of Ohio in 1978. Formerly majority state-owned, the British government privatised the company in stages between 1979 and 1987. British Petroleum merged with Amoco in 1998, becoming BP Amoco plc, and acquired ARCO and Burmah Castrol in 2000 and Aral AG in 2002. The company's name was shortened to BP p.l.c. in 2001. From 2003 to 2013, BP was a partner in the TNK-BP joint venture in Russia, and from 2013 until Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, held a nearly 20% stake in Rosneft.
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Size
65,900 employees
Market Cap
$104.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$20.3 billion
Founded
1909
5 Year Trend
-2.9%
Revenue
$180.3 billion
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