Cerberus Capital Management

Retail Sales Manager

Cerberus Capital Management$80K — $95K *
Lisle, IL 60532In-Person
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 5+ years in sales or Master's degree with 3+ years in sales or 8+ years in sales experience
  • At least 1 year in a lead role or supervisory experience
  • Proven success in strategic business partnerships
  • Demonstrated relationship-building and influencing skills
  • Strong analytical capabilities for data-driven decision making

Responsibilities

  • Build and nurture relationships with dealer leadership to align business goals with company objectives
  • Provide performance coaching to enhance dealer sales effectiveness
  • Utilize market intelligence and data to enhance dealer performance
  • Develop and implement growth strategies in collaboration with dealer leadership
  • Facilitate access to internal resources for dealer business challenges
  • Leverage CRM and analytics to monitor performance and business health
  • Analyze competitive activity and market trends to seize growth opportunities

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package focusing on employee wellbeing
  • Access to competitive market-based compensation
  • Potential for professional growth and development opportunities
  • Supportive work culture that encourages learning and innovation
Full Job Description
Position Overview

As a Retail Sales Manager, you will serve as a trusted advisor, business partner, and performance coach to a portfolio of dealers, helping them grow their business, strengthen sales capability, and unlock new opportunities. This position will support dealers in Chicago-Gary, IN.

This is not a traditional sales role. It is a strategic consultative position focused on influencing business outcomes through coaching, data-driven insights, solution selling, and relationship leadership. You will work side-by-side with dealer leaders and sales teams to improve performance, identify growth opportunities, and build capabilities that create long-term success.

If you're passionate about developing people, solving business challenges, and helping organizations achieve their full potential, this is an opportunity to make a measurable impact across a dealer network that serves customers every day.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain strong relationships with dealer principals, general managers, sales leaders, and key stakeholders. Align dealer business objectives with International Motors' strategic priorities and help partners identify opportunities to accelerate performance and profitability.
  • Act as a performance coach for dealer sales organizations by providing guidance, structured feedback, and development strategies that improve selling effectiveness, solution-selling capabilities, and business results.
  • Leverage industry trends, market intelligence, customer insights, and performance data to help dealers improve execution, increase market competitiveness, and achieve growth objectives.
  • Partner with dealer leadership to create and implement growth strategies that maximize opportunities across International Motors' full portfolio of vehicles, services, financing solutions, parts, and aftermarket offerings.
  • Connect dealers with the right internal resources and capabilities across International Motors to address business challenges, improve customer outcomes, and support long-term growth.
  • Utilize CRM systems, analytics platforms, dashboards, and AI-enabled insights to assess performance, identify opportunities, guide coaching conversations, and maintain an accurate view of business health and pipeline activity.
  • Monitor competitive activity, market dynamics, and dealer performance indicators to proactively address concerns and capitalize on emerging opportunities.
  • Share best practices, collaborate across functions, support strategic initiatives, and contribute to a culture of learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.


Minimum Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of sales experience
  • At least 1 years of lead experience

OR
  • Master's degree and at least 3 years of sales experience
  • At least 1 years of lead experience

OR
  • At least 8 years of sales experience
  • At least 1 years of lead experience


Additional Requirements

  • Qualified candidates, excluding current employees, must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee or Asylee) to be employed in the United States. We do not anticipate providing employment related work sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B status)


Desired Skills

  • Strategic Business Partnership
  • Relationship Building & Influence
  • Data-Driven Decision Making
  • Business Performance Coaching
  • Sales Enablement & Team Development
  • Change Leadership


Benefits and Compensation

This position offers competitive market-based compensation, along with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employee wellbeing. You can learn more about the benefits offered for this position by visiting https://careers.international.com/#benefits.

The expected salary offered for this position will fall within the stated range, with the final offer based on the candidates' applicable skills, knowledge, and experience.

About Cerberus Capital Management

Cerberus Capital Management is a private equity firm that specializes in distressed investing. The firm was founded in 1992 by Steve Feinberg and William L. Richter. Cerberus has invested in a variety of industries, including automotive, healthcare, real estate, and retail. The firm is known for its aggressive approach to investing and has been involved in several high-profile deals, including the acquisition of Chrysler in 2007.
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