Area Sales Manager - Missouri

Preferred Location

Kansas City (MO) or St. Louis (MO).

The Area Sales Manager is responsible for selling the Company’s products and achieving internal sales goals within their territory. The role builds positive relationships with practitioners and staff and contributes to developing and implementing sales strategies aligned with Company positioning and messaging.

• Achieving capital equipment quota for the assigned territory
• Applying professional and ethical sales techniques to close sales in assigned territory
• Acquiring product knowledge through product training and competitive analysis
• Creating awareness and demand for the company’s products
• Identifying prospective customers by following leads from existing customers and participating in company activities
• Engaging prospective customers daily, both in person and through other methods (text, phone calls, email, video calls, in-person visits, etc.), providing technical and administrative product information, quoting appropriate customer prices and closing deals
• Maintaining all quote documentation with accurate pricing and configurations
• Maintaining communications with internal personnel to ensure efforts are in line with objectives
• Monitoring and sharing as appropriate market conditions, product innovations, and competitors’ products, prices, and sales trends
• Negotiating details of contracts and payments within Company policies and guidelines
• Supporting customer success after sales or contract execution to resolve problems and provide ongoing support
• Coordinating with Sofwave Marketing to promote products and services via events, dinners, etc.
• Performing other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Requires travel of up to 35%
• 5+ years of overall B2B sales experience
• Bachelor’s degree in science, marketing, business or related field preferred
• Ability to build strong customer relationships
• Successful, documented sales track record required
• Self-starter and disciplined to cover assigned sales territory thoroughly through both cold-calling and lead prospecting activities
• Confident and skilled to develop new customers
• Excellent oral/written communication skills, including well-developed presentation skills to be able to articulate with understanding the Company’s technology and unique value proposition
• Demonstrated capacity to sell a novel product with unique competitive advantages communicate and motivate customers to purchase
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Word, and Power Point