Job Description

About Franke

We, the Franke company with its three divisions, are a world's leading supplier of products and services for domestic kitchens, the professional foodservice systems and the convenience store sector as well as for professional coffee making. With around 60 companies, we are at home on five continents. Over 8,000 employees constantly take on new perspectives to identify opportunities and turn them into inspiring, innovative solutions for tomorrow’s demands.

The Franke Home Solutions division is the world’s leading provider of smart systems for domestic kitchens. Drawing on a long history of reliability and expertise, we help our partners enhance their businesses and provide outstanding kitchen and cooking experiences to our consumers by offering complete solutions for food preparation and cooking.

About the job

Franke Home Solutions is seeking a commercially driven Sales Manager to lead growth within our Residential Wholesale Plumbing division, with a focus across Canada . This role is responsible for developing and managing strategic relationships with distributors, contractors, architects, engineers, and end users to drive specification, sales growth, and long-term market expansion.

The Sales Manager serves as the primary commercial lead for assigned accounts and territories, ensuring alignment between customer needs, project specifications, and Franke’s operational execution. Extensive travel within Canada is required, with occasional travel to the United States.

Your tasks

• Lead commercial sales strategy across assigned territory, driving revenue growth, market penetration, and channel expansion.
• Develop and execute territory and account plans, including sales forecasting, pricing strategy, margin management, and pipeline development.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with distributors, dealers, and key commercial customers across showrooms and key stakeholders, including sales agencies.
• Drive product growth through distributor engagement, end-user education, and identification of new opportunities.
• Act as the primary liaison between customers and internal teams including Customer Service, Supply Chain, Product Management, and Operations to ensure accurate forecasting, availability, and order fulfillment.
• Support product launches, promotional programs, and training initiatives for channel partners and internal stakeholders.
• Monitor account performance, market activity, and competitor positioning; proactively address pricing, service, or product issues with clear corrective actions.
• Maintain accurate CRM records, including pipeline tracking, forecasting, and account updates.
• Represent Franke at customer meetings, trade shows, and industry events while staying informed on market trends and competitive activity within commercial solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing or related field.
• 8–10 years of progressive sales experience in residential wholesale distributor sales channels.

What we offer you

At Franke Kindred Canada, we care about your well-being and work-life balance. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including dental, vision, and extended health care, life insurance, and an employee assistance program to support you in all aspects of life. We also help you plan for the future with our RRSP matching program.

Accessibility

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment or selection process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

For more information see: www.franke.com

Important information for all executive search companies, headhunters and HR consultants

The Franke Group does not accept unsolicited support from headhunters and personnel consultants for our career opportunities. Any CV/resume vitae submitted to Franke or its employees by external recruitment agencies without a valid written recruitment agreement related to the position in question shall be deemed the sole property of our company. In the event that a candidate presented by an agency is hired in our company and there is no prior agreement, no fee will be paid.