Sales Manager - Latin America

Career Area:

Sales

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Caterpillar Marine is a global leader in reliable, efficient, and future-ready marine power solutions. As a core part of Caterpillar's Oil & Gas and Marine Division, our organization delivers world-class engines, integrated power systems, lifecycle services, and digital technologies that help customers reduce total cost of ownership while improving uptime, efficiency, and performance. We offer a wide range of career opportunities across a variety of commercial, technical, and business roles worldwide.

Join our team and help solve our customers' toughest challenges.

The Marine Sales Manager oversees and coordinates all sales and customer activities for Caterpillar Latin America Marine Dealers

• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  Houston, TX
• Travel: 70%
• Requires working on site 5 days a week
• Relocation assistance provided for qualified candidates
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position

• Deliver business plan sales targets for engines, parts, and services through the dealer for Marine customers.
• Develop sales and manage merchandising plans to achieve business plan targets and deliver an enhanced customer experience.
• Leading a team of sales reps, with responsibility for engines, parts, and services, who focus on understanding the toughest customer challenges and identify potential value solutions to address those needs.
• Leading the selling opportunities identification, customer satisfaction improvement and business relationship enhancement.
• Embrace technology and Digital to support customers' needs and be the advanced technology leader in the industry
• Additional requirements
• Extensive progressive career in the commercial space involving dealer or customer facing roles and progressively growing responsibilities
• Experience leading change initiatives and driving adoption of new behaviors, processes, tools, or solutions

• Strong understanding of customer needs and the ability to translate those needs into practical business solutions that deliver value-added services to customers beyond delivery of a purchased product, technology or service.
• Extensive Industry knowledge including trends, major issues, regulatory considerations
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong decision making and critical thinking skills
• Ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with partners in a constructive and collaborative manner
• Business development: ability to support business growth and development while improving customer outcomes
• Formal team leadership experience including remote management

• Customer Focus: Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of the organization’s industry group, trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations, and trendsetters; ability to apply industry knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability…