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About the Role
Sun Gro Horticulture is seeking a District Sales Manager to plan, organize, and control the total selling effort within an assigned territory. The role involves achieving area sales budget objectives, ensuring distribution goals are met, and gaining market share for the Sun Gro product line. You will establish territory, distributor, and account objectives and develop plans for their accomplishment, while also controlling and monitoring sales expense budgets.
Responsibilities
- Deliver sales according to approved sales and marketing plans.
- Implement and control approved sales/marketing programs and procedures.
- Achieve new account and distribution objectives as assigned.
- Canvas the market to gain insight and adjust to changing conditions.
- Maintain CRM data by capturing all sales activities and account notes accurately and timely.
- Maintain a profile of your territory to understand competitors, potential customers, distributors, and business conditions.
- Communicate with supervisors about factors affecting your territory and various company departments.
- Participate in regional meetings to plan and analyze business activities.
- Handle customer requests, problems, or special situations relating to product performance.
- Maintain Company equipment to ensure safety and professional appearance.
- Control territory expense budgets as assigned.
- Submit sales reports and expense reports by monthly deadlines.
Requirements
- Ability and willingness to travel to cover territory needs and team activities.
Skills
- Organizational Ability
- Plan, organize, and monitor activities according to priorities.
- Establish schedules, deadlines, or quotas.
- Develop results-oriented conclusions.
- Communications/Interpersonal Skills
- Listen effectively.
- Describe or explain information, concepts, ideas, or instructions to others.
- Interface effectively with customers, the public, and co-workers.
- Decision-making Ability
- Perceive and evaluate alternatives.
- Analyze impact of decisions before executing them.
- Make and implement decisions compatible with organizational goals.
- Support decisions with appropriate evidence and rationale.
- Make accurate assessments on market conditions and trends and convey these professionally.
- Perform with absolute honesty and diplomacy managing multiple distributors in the territory.
Location
- New York - heavy Long Island
Work Type
- Remote
- 70% travel
Experience Level
- Experience in lawn/garden retail or plant nurseries
- Experience with Independent Garden Centers or horticulture departments in hardware stores
Education Level
- Education in horticulture or equivalent experience preferred
- Horticulture/Ag Certification is a plus (State/County courses or continuing education)
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000 - $80,000
- sales bonus structure
- company vehicle
Benefits
- Health Insurance (includes telemedicine, virtual health, FSA, HCSA & other benefits)
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Health Spending Account
- Employee Support and Mental Wellness
- Short-term disability
- 401k Match
- Paid vacation
- Floating days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Engagement Events
- Awards and Recognition
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Service Awards
- Employee Perks & Discounts
About the Company
- Sun Gro Horticulture is one of the most prominent North American horticultural companies, employing over 800 staff and serving customers worldwide.
- Since its humble beginnings in 1929, it has become the leading supplier of soilless growing mixes to North America’s top 100 greenhouse and nursery growers, shipping over 70,000 truckloads of product annually.
- Sun Gro products are made to exacting standards and conform to high product quality and performance criteria.
- Sun Gro Horticulture recognizes that its success is due to the strength of its employees.
- The primary goal of Sun Gro® is to promote individual employees’ sense of accomplishment and contribution so that employees enjoy their association with Sun Gro Horticulture.
- The Company invests in its employees so that they are the most knowledgeable in the industry, and undertakes great efforts to nurture loyalty to, and teamwork at, Sun Gro.