Sales Manager - Mid South

MOVING YOUR WORLD by focusing on your success:
FUCHS offers a challenging and rewarding working environment where employees are encouraged to develop and grow. We stand behind our core values: trust, creating value, respect, reliability, and integrity. Ours is a culture that fosters creativity and empowerment, values work/life balance, and gives you the freedom to excel. At FUCHS we aim to nurture your capabilities, ideas and career.

Salary:
FUCHS offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience in a similar position. The salary range for this position is $130,000 - $155,000 per year, but actual salary will vary depending upon a new hire’s experience and qualifications as well as internal equity.

Your Responsibilities:
The Sales Manager will report to the Vice President of Sales – Industrial Division and will be responsible for providing leadership to the sales group in the Mid South Divsion. Carrying out development of sales representatives with specific focus on account management; developing new business and sales closing techniques; supporting the Vice President of Sales with input on strategic account management and divisional customer analysis;

divisional P&L responsibilities are some of the main aspects of this role.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• The position will have 4 direct reports with possbile additional reports as dictated by the needs of the business.

Travel:

• Approximately 50% within the territory, depending upon residence location
• Geography - AL,
  
  E. AR, S. KY, MS, TN

Qualifications we are looking for:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Chemistry, or Business required.
• At least 10 years of B2B sales experience in industrial consumable products required. Experience in the Lubricants or Chemical industries preferred.
• A minimum of 3 years‘ experience in a leadership role.
• CRM experience (Salesforce desired)
• Demonstrated success in opening new business
• Solid understanding of direct selling concepts along with product and industry knowledge
• Ability foster collaborative relationship acoss inter-company departments and divisions
• Ability to travel overnight when needed
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

These are your benefits:
FUCHS offers a challenging and rewarding working environment where employees are encouraged to develop and grow as pro-fessionals. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that will expand your experience and challenge your abilities in the global marketplace. The position also offers an excellent compensation package and a comprehensive suite of ben-efits. Detailed benefit information can be found at this link:

FUCHS Lubricants Co. is an equal employment opportunity (EEO)/AA employer and strongly supports diversity in the workplace (m/f/d/v).