Central Industry Director

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We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

As the Central Industry Director you are responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction for the North American sales team, resulting in sustained, aggressive sales and market share growth for assigned products, solutions, and services. You will report to the Regional Vice President, Central Region and work either in a hybrid environment from one of our Rockwell Automation office locations or remotely depending on your location.

• Develop the strategy and execution plan. Including definition of the Central Industry execution priorities, measures of success.
• Lead a team of sellers and subject matter experts and establishes/monitors account packages for Sales Account Manager; ensures they are focused on the most strategic account opportunities within North America.
• Recruit, develops and effectively performance manages a staff capable of exceeding assigned annual sales goals within the assigned territory.
• Support employee development by investing time and resources for training and executes development plans/opportunities for the team.
• Demonstrate/Role models expertise in targeted industries and applications to the sales teams at targeted accounts.
• Develop and maintain key executive relationships for long term business success.
• Own the executive relationship with the key Solution Partners and Systems Integrators in the delivery strategy.
• Engage at key customers and opportunities to ensure Rockwell Automation's best chance for success.
• Coordinate cross territory/region/country pursuits with appropriate sales teams and partners.
• Analyze local market information and provide ongoing local market intelligence to help develop targeted industries and applications, monthly sales activity reports, forecasting and ad-hoc feedback.
• Document the competitive landscape by geography and industry segment with a pursuit strategy to defeat and defend our position.
• Ensure familiarity with company policies and procedures. Appropriately apply policies and procedures in compliance with government laws. Policies and procedures include, but not limited to: Standards of Business Conduct, Intellectual Property, Control Environment, Information Protection, ISO 9000 & 14000, government regulations (e.g. health, safety, quality and environmental).

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Years of Relevant Work Experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• The ability to travel 50% of the time.

• Bachelor of science in engineering or related discipline.
• Additional business-related degree/experience.
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years experience managing a sales team
• experience in industrial Industry required including technical sales, industrial distribution, systems integration or an engineering firm, or graduate of the Rockwell Automation Sales Training Program
• Experience working with all levels of an industrial automation plant (customer) including VPs, plant engineers and OEM machine builders.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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Rockwell Automation's hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.