Regional Sales Director at Belden Inc

Job description

Innovation Starts With You Propel your career at Belden, where innovation creates possibilities—for our people, our customers, and the communities we serve. We connect people, information, and ideas to solve the world’s most complex connectivity challenges, turning curiosity into meaningful impact. Here, you’ll take on work that challenges you, supports your growth, and empowers you to shape what’s next. You’ll collaborate with global teams, gain diverse perspectives, and contribute to solutions that extend beyond our business—creating value in the world around us. Together, we are shaping the future of digitization and paving the way for the next generation of innovation. The Regional Sales Director will lead a team of Territory Sales Managers & independent sales reps supporting the national telco market. This role will successfully drive profitable growth and manage the team to deliver new business by expanding the customer base and effectively overseeing the sales process from lead generation to deal finalization. The Regional Sales Director will also be responsible for bridging the organization’s strategy to execution through leveraging their market and commercial planning expertise while also holding the team accountable for KPI and growth target attainment. This is a remote position requiring 60% domestic travel, with the ideal candidate located West of Mississippi. The role will report directly to the VP, Global Sales – Broadband Solutions. You will make an impact in the following way: • Develop and lead a team of professional Territory Sales Managers to win new accounts, allocating team members to accounts and markets that provide the largest, most profitable opportunity. • Ownership for a defined set of sales targets aligned to the responsibilities of the role, taking accountability for meeting, and exceeding these targets over a sustained period. • Ownership and thorough understanding of your team’s opportunities to support monthly forecasting and root cause identification and countermeasure implementation. • Responsible for allocation of target accounts across the team and assigning appropriate personal targets / objectives. Apply appropriate rigor to reviewing individual performance and make quality recommendations for compensation purposes. • Takes ownership for creating and executing against individual Initiative Action Plans and achieve the desired business results. • Ensure timely and accurate reporting is achieved by the Sales team as required by the business. This will include reporting on opportunity management, Account Plans, specifications and wins. • Operate as a key stakeholder in the Sales function to create strong cross functional relationships across the territory to extend influence and control through the value chain. What you will bring: • Bachelor’s degree in Business or relevant Engineering discipline • Proven experience of sustained sales growth in existing & new business, strategic management of pricing, end user selling, growing existing customer accounts, and developing new accounts across North America • Experience of developing and improving sales team performance and sales skill coaching. • Proven track record within a Sales leadership role in a market relevant to the Belden organization • Computer literacy essential - experience of using CRM system tools advantageous Applicants can expect a base compensation range of $150,000 - $200,000 annually with a Sales Incentive Plan, plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role. This is the reasonable estimate that Belden believes it might pay for this job based on applicable circumstances at the time of posting. Belden may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law, and commensurate with the applicant’s experience, qualifications, and geographical location. Belden also offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability! Let’s Create Possibilities Together. Join a global community shaping the future of intelligent connectivity. At Belden, you’ll help push the boundaries of technology and write the next chapter of innovation, creating possibilities for your career, your future, and the world around you. These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.

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Innovation Starts With You
Together, we are shaping the future of digitization and paving the way for the next generation of innovation.
This is a remote position requiring 60% domestic travel, with the ideal candidate located West of Mississippi. The role will report directly to the VP, Global Sales – Broadband Solutions.
You will make an impact in the following way:
Develop and lead a team of professional Territory Sales Managers to win new accounts, allocating team members to accounts and markets that provide the largest, most profitable opportunity.
Ownership for a defined set of sales targets aligned to the responsibilities of the role, taking accountability for meeting, and exceeding these targets over a sustained period.
Ownership and thorough understanding of your team’s opportunities to support monthly forecasting and root cause identification and countermeasure implementation.
Takes ownership for creating and executing against individual Initiative Action Plans and achieve the desired business results.
Ensure timely and accurate reporting is achieved by the Sales team as required by the business. This will include reporting on opportunity management, Account Plans, specifications and wins.
Operate as a key stakeholder in the Sales function to create strong cross functional relationships across the territory to extend influence and control through the value chain.
Bachelor’s degree in Business or relevant Engineering discipline
Proven experience of sustained sales growth in existing & new business, strategic management of pricing, end user selling, growing existing customer accounts, and developing new accounts across North America
Experience of developing and improving sales team performance and sales skill coaching.
Proven track record within a Sales leadership role in a market relevant to the Belden organization
Computer literacy essential - experience of using CRM system tools advantageous
Let’s Create Possibilities Together.
These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.

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