Commercial Manager

Company: Tennant
Location: Manchester
Posted on: November 19, 2020

Job Description:

Tennant Company is a recognized leader of the cleaning industry. Since 1870 we have been passionate about developing innovative and sustainable solutions that help our customers clean more spaces more effectively, addressing indoor and outdoor cleaning challenges. Our products include equipment for maintaining surfaces in industrial, commercial and outdoor environments; detergent-free and other sustainable cleaning technologies; cleaning tools and supplies; and coatings for protecting, repairing and upgrading surfaces. With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company operates in three geographic business units including the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific. Join the company committed to empowering our customers to create a cleaner, safer and healthier world with high-performance cleaning solutions that minimize waste, reduce costs, improve safety and further sustainability goals.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Works with distributors and their sales reps in the sales field to grow distribution.

Educates, demonstrates, prospects, and closes or helps close deals with distribution and their reps.

Works with Strategic Accounts in the territory. This may include surveying new facilities and making solution recommendations to grow Strategic Accounts through face to face interaction with BSC site managers, retail store managers, healthcare, and education customers.

Installs sold equipment through on-site training with customers.

Partners with distributors, Industrial counterparts, service, SA, and other channels of Tennant’s business.

Manages channel conflict and day to day customer issues in the assigned territory.

Cleans and maintains company demo equipment, vehicle and trailer.

Manages, controls, and takes responsibly for assigned company demo inventory.

Completes all “paperwork” and reporting as required.

Executes sales strategy in the assigned geography as directed by the CMM.

Makes Sales calls, cold calls, and customer calls (face to face, emails, and phone calls) on existing and new target accounts.

Continually present our solutions to customer base, maintaining existing customer base.

Takes active responsibility to develop and train reps in the CSS role.

Education & Experience Required:

Bachelor's degree and 5 years of overall business experience, to include 3 years in a direct/indirect sales role

Demonstrated experience working with distribution and channel partners

Ability to sell and demonstrate drive in gaining new business and new customers

Solid business acumen, and knowledge of the sales process; track record of sales success

Coordinates and executes annual distributor planning within established timelines

Consistently delivers training on commercial products

Effectively leverage the sales process to increase success rate for each project

Identify and effectively partner with key internal and external decision makers

Identify the appropriate communication strategy to the customer

Effectively leverages training, tools, technology and programs

Consistently exhibits a high level of time and territory management

Exceptional organization and prioritization skills

Strong negotiating skills

Strong selling skills

Strong presentation, training and facilitation skills

Proficient at interacting with people at all levels of an organization

Functional PC and PC application skills

Must pull trailers as per DOT regulations and safety standards

Must meet physical requirements of the position including ability to hook up trailers and load demonstration gear

Let us introduce you to Tennant Company. We're everywhere. In your sports clubs, shopping malls, office buildings, parking lots. We make things that make things look like new. We bring new cleaning ideas to market. There is new dirt every day and our machines clean it up. With manufacturing operations and sales, service and support functions across globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected. If you want to get your hands dirty on a project, step up with your own ideas, or maybe even explore talents you never knew you had, Tennant Company is a place where that can happen. Because at Tennant, we like to think like new. Begin your journey with us. Let's reinvent how the world cleans.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Tennant Company is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of individual skill, ability, reliability, productivity, and other factors important to performance. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other basis protected by state or federal law or local ordinance.

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