WD-40 Company

Sales Manager

WD-40 Company  •  Chicago, IL (Remote)  •  59 minutes ago
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Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a passionate, technically orientated Sales Manager to champion sales of two of the world's most identifiable brands, WD-40® and WD-40 Specialist®. This home-based position, located in either the Midwest or Northeast region, is responsible for implementing company sales and marketing programs in the assigned territory with an account concentration in the automotive wholesale channel, specifically with Napa Auto Parts.

A successful candidate understands our customer and end-user needs across all brands and channels to prepare compelling technical and solution-based presentations, negotiate, and ultimately close sales. The Sales Manager is also responsible for partnering with independent brokers/service providers to support sales pull-through activities, education, and program execution. In addition, the Sales Manager will integrate customer retail category management/leadership programs.

If you are a driven, successful sales leader who can develop productive relationships across all levels and want to contribute to a growing, world-class brand, please consider joining our team!

Responsibilities

  • Actively sells all WD-40 Company brands across multiple trade channels to direct and indirect customers to achieve sales and EBITDA goals in line with Company strategies.
  • Actively identifies new business, solicits and closes prospective customers.
  • Presents broad technical product knowledge of all WD-40 Company’s product specifications, features, benefits, and applications in a concise, consultative, and convincing manner to provide customers with appropriate solutions
  • Makes product solution recommendations as well as provide technical support.
  • Secures off-shelf and secondary displays, and promotions within existing and new customers.
  • Proactively develops and contributes to cross-functional sales/promotion/category leadership plans and programs to maximize sales. Develops EBITDA-advantageous account-specific programs in partnership with sales, marketing, and third-party agents.
  • Communicates with third-party representatives to educate and reinforce product knowledge, sales goals, programs, and company values.
  • Collaborates, prepares, and presents customer’s requests for proposal.
  • Ensures that distribution and department plan-o-grams and catalogs are maintained to obtain measured sales goals.
  • Reports on activities and goal attainment to plan, establish, review, and appropriately adjust time and territory management plan to meet goals.
  • Supports national customers/programs.
  • Responsible for accurate and timely forecasting.
  • Responsible for selection of and participation in trade shows and integration of promotions/ideas.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant technical consumer packaged goods sales experience, ideally with chemicals across a broad array of channels to include: automotive, industrial, hardware, and farming
  • Experience identifying and opening new accounts.
  • Successfully executed account management, business development, and sales within wholesale automotive, hardware, industrial, and/or miscellaneous channels to achieve desired metrics.
  • Demonstrated interpersonal and negotiating skills in a direct or indirect sales capacity.
  • Bachelor's degree in business or relevant field. MBA, highly desirable.
  • Ability to travel domestically up to 50-60%.
  • Current and valid driver's license required – company car provided.

About Us

Our “Why”

At WD-40 Company, we believe that purpose-driven, passionate people guided by our values create amazing outcomes. Our "why" is refreshingly simple - we exist to create positive lasting memories in everything we do.

Why You Should Apply

  • A strong values-aligned organization where contributions are acknowledged and rewarded, and where 91% of our employees experience a sense of belonging.
  • A learning-based culture where 77% of our team believe they can achieve their career objectives.
  • Over 95% employee engagement as of our most recent global employee survey.
  • 91% of our people actively recommend WD-40 Company as a great place to work.

Do You Align With Our Values?

Please, only consider employment with WD-40 Company if you feel as strongly about our values as we do: We live, breathe, and play by our values every day.

Thank you for considering WD-40 Company in your career search!

#PositiveLastingMemories

At WD-40 Company we foster a culture of inclusion where all individuals are recognized, valued, respected, and experience a sense of belonging. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to individual characteristics that make us unique such as our backgrounds, experiences, qualities, talents, traits, beliefs, and preferences. #LI-PR1

WD-40 Company

About WD-40 Company

Founded in San Diego, California U.S.A. in 1953, WD-40 Company is a publicly traded, global sales and marketing company. The blue and yellow can with the little red top and yellow “shield” carries with it positive brand equity - the brand is memorable, easily recognizable and known for its superiority in quality and reliability to end users across 62 unique channels of trade in more than 176 countries. Our maintenance products currently make up ~90% of net sales and homecare and cleaning products ~10%.

WD-40 Company's corporate headquarters and Corporate Brand Support Center are located in San Diego. Our ~500 highly engaged tribe members in our 15 offices throughout the world are caretakers of our brands and innovators of our future.

Our “Why”

We exist to create positive lasting memories in everything we do. We solve problems. We make things work smoothly. We create opportunities.

Our “How”

We create positive lasting memories by cultivating a tribal culture of learning and teaching which produces a highly engaged workforce who live our company’s values every day.

Our “What”

Our mission is to deliver unique, high value and easy-to-use solutions for a wide variety of maintenance needs in workshops, factories and homes. We market and distribute our brands across multiple trade channels in countries all over the world.

In the company's 70 year history, there has not been a reduction in force. We work diligently to ensure that our approach to workforce planning and hiring is conservative to ensure sustainable workforce in good times and bad. We invest carefully and our people and take seriously the commitment we make to hiring, developing and retaining. This aligns with our people first strategy: our people are not disposable.

Industry
Wholesale & Distribution
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
San Diego, California
Year Founded
1953
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