District Sales Mgr​/Acct Mgr - Minneapolis, MN Area

Launch Your Sales Career. Build Something Real.

You just finished your degree. You had a taste of sales - and you want more. Lapp Tannehill is looking for a driven, curious recent graduate to join our team as a District Sales Manager / Inside Account Manager. This is not a job where you watch from the sidelines. From day one you will own a territory, build real customer relationships, and develop the commercial skills that will define your career.

You bring the drive, the coachability, and the sales instincts you started building in your internship. We bring the training, the mentorship, the product knowledge, and a clear path to becoming a top-performing territory owner.

You will split your time evenly between two things - hunting new business and managing a portfolio of established key accounts. Half your week is offense: finding new customers, qualifying leads, and closing deals. The other half is relationship management: keeping key accounts engaged, growing wallet share, and making sure Lapp Tannehill is the partner they call first.

This is a field-facing role with approximately 35% travel - customer visits, Quarterly Business Reviews with remote accounts, and industry events. If you want to be in an office all day, this is not the role. If you want to be in front of customers building real relationships, it is exactly the right place to start.

• Manage a defined geographic territory across Minnesota - you are the face of Lapp Tannehill to your customers
• Build and maintain 6-10 points of contact within each key account - not just the buyer, but engineering, operations, and management
• Develop account strategies for your key accounts - proactive communication, regular check-ins, and quarterly business reviews that deepen the relationship between visits
• Manage your calendar and territory with discipline - 35% travel including customer site visits, QBRs, and industry events

• Prospect and qualify new customers through cold outreach, lead follow-up from trade shows, digital channels, and referrals
• Learn and execute a structured sales process - from first call through proposal, negotiation, and close
• Build your pipeline to 2.5x your territory revenue target and maintain it with rigor
• Complete 15+ meaningful sales conversations per week - face-to-face and virtual

• Learn Lapp Tannehill's full wire, cable, and connectivity portfolio - including industrial connectors (IDC, ÖC, Epic, and more) - through structured training and hands‑on product demonstrations
• Develop the technical fluency to have credible conversations with engineers, procurement teams, and operations leaders
• Collaborate with customers on design projects and application-specific solutions as your knowledge grows

• Build working relationships with manufacturer representatives - joint calls, co-selling, and business development partnerships
• Attend local, regional, and national wire and cable industry events and OEM shows to build your network and market presence
• Coordinate with inside sales and operations teams to deliver a seamless customer experience across your territory

You recently graduated with a business degree - or a related field - and you are hungry to put it to work in a real commercial environment. You had a sales internship and got a taste of what it means to prospect, qualify, and close. You liked it. Now you want a role where you can own a territory, develop real skills, and build a career - not just fill a seat.

• A bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications, or a related field
• Sales internship experience - you have made cold calls, managed a pipeline, or worked in a customer-facing commercial role and you know the basics of how a sales process works
• Natural curiosity - you ask good questions, you listen well, and you genuinely want to understand what a customer needs before you start talking about solutions
• Self‑motivation - you do not need someone standing over you to make calls or manage your calendar. You know what needs to get done and you do it
• Relatio…