Area Sales Manager

Area Sales Manager
to join our innovative, growing company representing our Leading Tech client. The Area Sales Manager (ASM) is responsible for delivering revenue, margin, and market share goals for all client brands in the direct/indirect stores assigned to direct reports, Territory Sales Managers (TSMs). The Area Sales Manager will be responsible for executing strategic and tactical business development plans for the respective region to drive sales and market share growth at every location. The Area Sales Manager is expected to maintain relationships, alignment, and linkage between key individuals within the brand's sales channels, acting as primary contact for DM level across the carrier partners. The Area Sales Manager will manage activities through a team to build and maintain trusting relationships, train & engage store sales associates on products and devices, promote and advocate products and brands.
Lead and develop a team of TSMs across a large geographic territory, whose primary role is to visit stores in an assigned region, build and maintain trusting relationships, train & engage store sales associates on products and devices, and promote and advocate products and brand to drive sell-through.
Establish, foster, and drive strong partnerships with carrier regional and field leadership to enhance and promote brand engagement, identify key growth opportunities, and drive overall sell-through for the region.
Inspire and motivate a team of experienced sales professionals to achieve assigned business targets which will include prioritization of store visits during optimal store-traffic periods to maximize impact and meet training objectives.
Form individual and team goals and execute plans to reach targets and direct sales resources to meet trade partner needs and channel requirements.
Maintain highly visible presence both in person and virtually in designated region within assigned territory by conducting regular field visits within region to ensure excellence and value-add from the TSMs store engagements and training events.
Responsible for budget management of market funds, conducting performance reviews, HR policies, training, hiring process, payroll, and other management responsibilities as required.
Maintain a strong level of expectation and ability to lead/coach through various content and mediums when being face to face is not possible.
Bachelor's Degree
~5+ years of combined direct sales/retail sales experience.
~1-3+ years' supervisor / management experience in retail and/or retail sales field management with the ability to manage a diverse, remote team in a performance-based culture focused on sell-through preferred
~ Proven experience in data reporting and analytical reporting required.
~ Proven experience planning, monitoring, and managing departmental budget.
~ Passion for technology and leading others with such passion.
~ Ability to analyze sales and market territory data to provide guidance and direction for under-performing markets within a region including quarterly market evaluations, competitive assessments, KPI calculation, and key recommendations to drive increased sales and market share in the respective region.
~ Critical thinking to evaluate, assess, and make recommendations to senior leadership based on field sales team's market intelligence and feedback of current business conditions.
~ Superior interpersonal skills to working closely with Leaders, Territory Sales Managers other team members and clients.
~ Comfortability with Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Drive, Slides.