District MOD Sales Manager be West District

District Mod Sales Manager

Job description

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world's cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable.

Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

Are you ready to make your next career move to join our team and manage your own district as a District Modernization Sales Manager for the KONE Central West District?

As our District Modernization Sales Manager, you will be responsible for the development of our MOD sales and would drive an outside‑in customer service mindset to meet our customers' needs. You will also participate in market and customer analysis to ensure quality of sales planning, while considering the pricing and offering management to drive market pricing and profitability. You will lead by example in sharing your understanding of the selling cycle, customer purchasing strategies, selling, negotiating, reporting and funnel management.

You will bring 7+ years of technical sales and sales leadership experience, preferably in service or technical sales. You will use the knowledge gained when obtaining your bachelor's degree or 7+ years of relevant working experience within a comparable industry.

• Accountable for developing KONE's position and customer base in the market.
• Drives proactive engagement and solution selling with different customer segments showing value over the lifecycle.
• Ensures development of customer relationships, profitability, customer loyalty and satisfaction.
• Identifies and builds relationships to key decision makers, potential new targets and influencers.
• Promotes and demonstrates the value of KONE digital offering.
• Responsible for District and Individual Sales Plans (ISPs) for their team.
• Participates in market and customer analysis to ensure quality of sales planning.
• Participates in pricing and offering management in order to drive market pricing and profitability.
• Responsible for gathering relevant information about competitors and market from the field.
• Responsible for identifying opportunities for cross‑selling of all KONE solutions.
• If applicable, drive execution of their individual sales plan including proactive / consultative sales customer visits.
• Accountable for leading the Sell process including CRM data quality of contacts, customers, influencers, opportunity management, and won and lost reporting.
• Accountable for ensuring results within orders, contracts, profitability and market price development.
• Sets sales targets according to market potential and FL unit guidelines.
• Drives short and long‑term sales result from team.
• Executes and advises on pricing guidelines for area.
• Leads the sales team to be proactive with customers, to use KONE solution selling methodology and to communicate the value of KONE solutions to customers' own performance.
• Coaches the team members to achieve better results through constant one to one dialogue and sharing of best practices.
• Manages the performance of the team.
• Develops the competences of the sales team.
• Motivates & inspires the team & individual to high performance.
• Ensures great onboarding experience for new employees in the team.
• Responsible for succession planning for their team.
• Work with AME Modernization team to drive process improvement, support data analysis.

At KONE, we foster an innovative and collaborative culture, valuing each individual's contribution. Employee engagement and sustainability are key focuses, promoting ethical practices and mutual respect. We're proud to offer experiences and opportunities to help you achieve career and personal goals while maintaining a healthy work‑life balance.

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