Territory Manager

Are you interested in joining a company that was recently certified as a “Great Place to Work” for the third year in a row? If so, please read on…

Do you like a challenge and enjoy meeting new people? Have talent for growing a territory? Do you have a real passion for closing a sale? If this describes you, we would love to talk with you! Join the L & S team as a Territory Manager!

You will be responsible for representing us to clients by conveying a positive professional image, leading, and growing sales within a territory, while striving to reach personal and companywide sales goals. We are looking for a person to be a driver in growing our market presence and building positive, meaningful relationships with current and new clients, all while having some fun with your clients, too!

JOB FUNCTION:

Collaborate with customers and L&S resources to understand and solve customer challenges. Generate and successfully manage sales and revenue to meet forecast goals in the assigned territory of North Dakota, South Dakota and Western Minnesota.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Call on existing and new industrial, utility and OEM customers
• Create, manage, maintain, and enhance relationships with key personnel at accounts
• Maintain business at existing customers
• Prospecting and promotion of L&S products and services
• Use L&S sales process to identify and prioritize pursuit of competitively held business
• Leverage relationships to identify and understand customers problems, current situation and goals
• Understand customers decision making process and award criteria
• Determine competitors and the customers perspective of them
• Identify any challenges we face
• Collaborate with customers and L&S resources to determine solutions to solve customer problems and meet their goals
• Identify applicable L&S value propositions to differentiate L&S
• Create and execute a plan to WIN to achieve budget
• Work diligently with customers and L&S resources to differentiate L&S and close orders
• Participate in the L&S customer feedback process to ensure customer satisfaction
• Work with customers and L&S operations to manage through technical and commercial challenges
• Create customer loyalty
• Monitor competitive activity within the territory
• Monitor competitive activity within the territory
• Provide weekly activity and expense reports
• Create annual sales plan and forecast quarterly sales for assigned territory

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Trade-show planning and attendance

• Coordinate customer outings and entertainment
• Additional duties as assigned by the Regional Sales Manager

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2 or 4 year technical or business degree preferred, with 5+ years of experience successfully selling:
• Services such as Repair of Electric Motors, Generators and Rotating Apparatus; On-Site Services; Power Services; Reliability / Predictive Maintenance Services; Control Panels
• Products such as Electric Motors, AC and DC Drives, Soft Starters, Industrial Controls, Power Distribution Equipment, Excitation Systems, Gearing and Power Transmission Equipment
• Above average communication skills, ability to work effectively with team members and customers
• Energetic, self-motivated, results orientated
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office and remote PC
• Ability to convey a positive and professional image

To give you a better idea about this role and what it means to our company, here’s what you will need in order to be successful in this role:

• You are a self-starter and are able to retain and grow sales at existing customers as well as identify, qualify, convert and develop new accounts
• You are proactive, persuasive and have effective verbal and written communication skills
• You have the desire to collaborate with customer and company resources to understand and solve customer challenges as well as execute on plans and achieve goals
• You excel at promoting a company’s image, products, and services. Strive to provide the best service to clients along with building trust and respect with our clients
• You are able to use L&S Electric’s sales process and leverage company resources to target, pursue and WIN competitively held business
• You have the discipline to furnish weekly call reports and to obtain and share Customer feedback via established QMS process
• You are determined to be knowledgeable about your territory, have a leg up on your competition, and know the best pricing strategy for your territory because you have prior experience with industrial sales
• You understand the importance of maintaining client information through Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software and providing updates and reports to upper management by utilizing Microsoft Word and Excel
• You love tradeshows and other customer events and are happy to provide assistance and planning
• You have experience or are willing to learn about electric motors, drives, controls, switchgear, motor repair services, power services, control panels and/or predictive maintenance programs in order for you to become a phenomenal salesperson
• A 2- or 4-year business or technical degree with 5+ years of experience preferred
• Valid Driver’s License with a clean driving record; able to be insured
• You are willing and able to pass a background check and pre-employment drug test
• Able to work for any employer in the United States

What you will receive:

We offer a competitive benefits package to include:

• Health, Vison, and Dental Insurance
• Flexible spending accounts – medical and dependent care
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Company paid Short Term Disability
• Variety of other ancillary benefits
• 401 (k) with Company Match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Paid Volunteer Time
• Safety Shoes and Glasses Programs
• Wellness Initiatives

About L & S Electric, Inc.

We are a 3rd generation, family-run company focused on delivering results to customers who produce power or use it to drive their business. Our roots date back to the 1950’s in a small electric motor repair shop in Central Wisconsin.

Today, the services and products we provide at L&S have become substantially more diverse compared to our humble beginnings. L&S repair facilities service over 10,000 pieces of equipment each year in industries ranging from industrial customers to power producers to transportation, and everything in between.

At L&S, we proactively support our customer’s equipment through predictive and preventative maintenance. Our power service team stretches across the US and services and maintains our customer’s critical power distribution equipment. We are one of the US’s largest distributors of electric motors, drives and power distribution, and related equipment. And our Power Control Solutions team designs and manufactures integrated solutions for power producers worldwide.

Although we have grown, our focus has not changed. We are driven to have a team that is passionate about providing quality products and services to our customers, with legendary service.

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