Senior Director Commercial Service

Date: May 31, 2024

Location: Wauwatosa, WI, US, 53222

Company: Briggs & Stratton

Position Description

As the Senior Director of Commercial Service, your role will be to develop strategy to manage overall sales channel.  You will plan and guide the work of multiple or large scale sales groups and create and implement marketing strategies and sales tactics to achieve budgeted sales, market share, and profit growth goals. Additionally, you will represent the unit to senior leadership of clients, the public, and/or senior management and engage in strategic planning of the allocation of work in complex business processes.  You will report the unit's work to management and manage employee performance and professional development.

You will do this by:

  • Developing plans to meet overall goals for sales, market share and profit
  • Participating in strategic and long-term planning for department, branch, or division
  • Leading development of sales methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people
  • Collaborating with the business to develop pricing, product strategies and manage sales channel conflict
  • Working with Sales Managers to analyze trends and potential within existing and new markets
  • Creating strategies surrounding new customer development.
  • Interacting regularly with executives and/or major customers
  • Directing the work of groups of employees (leads through directors and managers)
  • Mentoring and training other sales staff
  • Performing other duties as assigned

You are the type of person who is/has:

  • Ability to develop, forecast and manage budgets
  • Excellent team building skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Ability to translate sales information into successful sales strategies
  • Ability to train and mentor
  • Fluent in English and primary language used in area of responsibility and/or location

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or Related field

Experience Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years of experience in sales or related field
  • Minimum five years of people management experience

Physical & Environmental Requirements

Moderate travel

 

 

Briggs & Stratton, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides innovative products and diverse power solutions to help people get work done. Briggs & Stratton is the world’s largest producer of engines for outdoor power equipment, and is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lithium-ion battery, standby generator, energy storage system, lawn and garden, turf care and job site products through its Briggs & Stratton®, Vanguard®, Ferris®, Simplicity®, Snapper®, Billy Goat®, Allmand®, SimpliPhi®, Branco® and Victa® brands. Briggs & Stratton products are designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced in more than 100 countries on six continents.

 

Briggs & Stratton is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. The Company conducts all employment practices without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. Briggs & Stratton also undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for protected veterans.


Nearest Major Market: Milwaukee