Territory Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD's coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customersacross the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.

Position Description:
The Territory Manager owns accounts within an assigned geography, maximizing selling and growth opportunities. This role harnesses internaland external partnerships, business intelligence, customer experience, and revenue analytics to maximize unit and revenue growth within assigned territory.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for prospecting and identifying dealer growth opportunities within an assigned geography, delivering growth through the activation of dormant and/or under penetrated accounts.
• Identify the products or services that best meet the customer's stated/identified needs, use business intelligence and market expertise to propose product screens and product segment recommendations.
• Travel throughout the geographic area of the assigned territory. Travel to the Solution Center or other Distribution Centers as determined by Management.
• Grow program dealers in the assigned geography while improving total units through program as a % of total units sold.
• Develop and grow opportunity accounts graduating them to the Key Account Manager.
• Ensure quality CRM data to enable customer retention, business development, follow-up actions, and other sales activities.
• Work collaboratively with all support roles to drive additional unit/revenue opportunities in assigned geography to build strong customer relationships that drive a positive customer experience.
• Identify upsell/cross opportunities based on understanding of customer needs based on relationship and predictive data models.
• Utilize data, analytics, and standardized reporting to improve time management and drive strategic activity.
• Attend local or regional trade events to enhance market visibility.

• Being resilient - Is calm and professional in difficult situations; continues to work toward objectives. Overcomes obstacles without becoming discouraged; draws lessons from failures. Recovers from setbacks and adversity.
• Builds networks - Draws upon own network to gain insight, build support, and achieve outcomes. Leverages networks to identify industry experts, explore some best practices, and exchange ideas and knowledge.
• Business insight - Clearly understands how own activities relate to critical business drivers. Monitors business news and market changes for impact on the business or on own expertise area; uses this to shape decisions.
• Collaborates - Readily involves others to accomplish goals; stays in touch and shares information; discourages "us versus them" thinking; shows appreciation for others' ideas and input.
• Customer focus - Keeps in contact with customers to ensure problems are resolved, or to improve customer service. Studies customer feedback and emerging customer needs and uses these to determine some creative new ideas.
• Drives results - Holds self to high standards of performance; sets some challenging goals; wants to achieve meaningful results; pursues initiatives/efforts to successful completion and closure. Focuses on key goals, even during setbacks and obstacles.
• Instills trust - Demonstrates integrity, upholding professional codes of conduct. Instills trust by following through on agreements and commitments despite competing priorities and by being honest and straightforward.
• Interpersonal savvy - Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. For example, takes time to build rapport in meetings; speaks about common interests and priorities; shows tact and sensitivity in difficult interpersonal situations. Maintains productive relationships with a wide variety of people and from a range of backgrounds.
• Nimble learning - Learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder. For example, experiments to find the best possible solution and gains insight from test cases. Makes use of new concepts and principles when addressing problems. Learns from mistakes to avoid repeating them.
• Persuades - Convinces others through a variety of means and methods of persuasion, including well-reasoned rationale. Recognizes when compromise is necessary and shifts approach to accommodate others.
• Plans and aligns - Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. For example, outlines clear plans that put actions in a logical sequence; conveys some time frames. Aligns own work with relevant workgroups. Takes some steps to reduce bottlenecks and speed up the work.
• Situational adaptability - Takes steps to adapt to changing needs, conditions, priorities, or opportunities. Understands the cues that suggest a change in approach is needed; adopts new behaviors accordingly.

• High School or GED degree

• Action Planning 3
• Commercial Acumen 3
• Knows the Buying Influences 3
• Customer and Market Analysis 3
• Strengthens Customer Connections 3
• Builds Customer Loyalty 4
• Understands Customer Needs 3
• Manages Resistance 3