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Managing Director

PeopleSpace - A Best In Class Haworth Partner · Irvine, CA, USA ·

Job type:
Contract

Managing Director

The Managing Director is a front-line sales leader responsible for developing and directing a sales team and implementing area sales goals. They provide leadership and support to area sales team to set expectations and goals, drive new business, and maintain existing client base. This person is responsible for driving sales through identified PeopleSpace customers.
The Managing Director will focus in these key areas on a day-to-day basis:
PeopleSpace Ambassador
Identify & Qualify Prospects
Account Opportunity and Planning
Builds Relationships
Evaluate Needs & Develop Solutions to Win Business
Client and Sales Team Management & Leadership
Administration and Reporting
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree AND four years diversified sales and account development experience
OR
Associates degree AND eight years diversified sales and account development experience
Other Qualifications:
Visionary leader capable of initiating ideas and implementing strategies
Excellent verbal, written, listening and presentation skills
Recruit and develop people, build sales team, deliver results and facilitate change
Successfully manage others and territory; strong business and financial acumen skills
Strong negotiation skills to close business and manage relationships
Strategic and analytical thinker capable of driving creative and tactical business decisions that support PeopleSpace initiatives
Make quick decisions and build consensus with team members and across all functional areas of business
Quickly learn and embrace PeopleSpace Values and demonstrate through daily behaviors/actions
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading an outside sales team in a major market
Experience in the contract office furniture or Architectural & Design industry