Schneider Electric

Sales Manager

Full-time · Chicago, IL
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Senior · 8+ yrs exp

Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree

Experience: 8+ years

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SalesManagementTeam LeadershipCoachingOperationsBusiness DevelopmentUpsellingBuilding Automation
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The Sales Manager plays a key role in promoting Schneider Electric's market leadership in smart building technologies. This role leads to a team focused on transforming buildings into digitally connected, energy-efficient environments. The Sales Manager is responsible for managing and growing a portfolio of strategic end users, developers, property managers, consultants, and contractor accounts within our defined geographic region.

The Sales Manager leads and coaches a team to achieve regional objectives, recruits top talent, develops employees, and ensures alignment with company goals and delivers exceptional customer value.

- Key

Responsibilities - Lead and manage all operational aspects of a regional sales branch, ensuring performance against revenue, profitability, and growth objectives. - Direct sales strategy execution and oversee delivery to local and regional customers. - Build and sustain strong relationships with new and existing customers, including executive-level stakeholders. - Manage internal branch operations, including coordination with HR, finance, and IT partners. - Foster a culture of team selling and cross-divisional collaboration to deliver integrated solutions. - Serve as a subject matter expert on Schneider Electric products, applications, and services. - Set clear performance expectations, mentor team members, and conduct regular performance reviews. - Coach sellers to identify customer needs and align solutions that deliver measurable value. - Review and approve bids to ensure accuracy, competitiveness, and alignment with business objectives. - Monitor market trends, competitor activity, and customer feedback to inform strategy. - Support pricing strategies, margin performance, and long-term business development initiatives. - Identify and develop upselling and expansion opportunities within assigned accounts. - Directly manage a strategic portfolio of customers to achieve individual and team sales targets. - Provides leadership in ambiguous situations, guiding teams through change and complexity.

- Bachelor's degree in business administration, Engineering, or equivalent experience. - 8+ years of sales experience, preferably in building automation, construction, or other building technology systems. - Ability to interpret job specifications and drawings. - Strong understanding of contracting business models. - Strong leadership and team development skills. - Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills. - Financial acumen, including forecasting, margin management, and pipeline discipline. - Digital fluency, including CRM tools and data-driven sales management.

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric - apply today!

€40 billion global revenue +9% organic growth 150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and 'inclusion' is one of our core values.

We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders.

You can find out more about our Trust Charter here

Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.

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