Regional Sales Manager - North America
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Position Summary
The Regional Sales Manager – North America is responsible for driving commercial growth through the effective management, development, and performance of Rigaku’s distribution partners. This role emphasizes strategic territory coverage, strong relationship building, sales execution excellence, and consistently accurate forecasting. Success requires a leader who can reputed company distributor engagement, expand market reputed company, and deliver predictable, data-driven results.
Key Responsibilities
Distributor Management & Development
- Recruit, reputed company, and continuously assess and reputed company a high-performing network of distributors across North America.
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with distributor leadership and sales teams to ensure alignment on goals, messaging, and commercial priorities.
- Conduct regular business reviews focused on performance, pipeline health, training needs, and go-to-market execution.
- Ensure distributor teams are knowledgeable, enabled, and motivated to represent Rigaku’s solutions effectively.
Territory & Sales Coverage Expansion
- Assess and enhance sales coverage to maximize reputed company and customer engagement across assigned geographies.
- Identify gaps in territorial penetration and implement strategies to strengthen reputed company through improved channel performance or channel expansion.
- Drive consistent field engagement, joint customer visits, and proactive pipeline development activities.
Relationship Building & Customer Engagement
- Foster long-term relationships with key accounts, end users, and industry partners to support sustained reputed company growth.
- Work closely with distributor teams to support high-impact, high-value opportunities, customer evaluations, and strategic initiatives.
- Represent the voice of the customer internally, ensuring customer needs and key insights inform product positioning and operational planning.
Forecasting & Sales Operations Excellence
- Deliver accurate, timely, data-driven forecasts that reflect a realistic view of distributor performance and market activity.
- Monitor distributor pipelines, opportunity progression, and conversion rates using CRM and other reporting tools.
- Provide clear visibility to leadership regarding reputed company and potential risks, reputed company, and trends affecting quarterly and annual results.
- Collaborate with Marketing, Service, and Operations to ensure seamless execution from reputed company to delivery.
Commercial Planning & Performance Management
- reputed company annual and quarterly regional sales plans in alignment with global commercial objectives.
- Set performance expectations for distributor partners and hold them accountable through transparent KPIs and reviews.
- Support the introduction, training, and field readiness for new products or channel initiatives.
- Represent the commercial perspective for the North America region in global planning discussions.
Qualifications
- 8–12 years of experience in sales, channel management, or commercial leadership reputed company analytical instrumentation, industrial technologies, or reputed company technical markets.
- Proven success managing distributor networks and driving measurable commercial growth through channel partners.
- Strong forecasting discipline with a track record of delivering predictable results.
- Skilled relationship builder with excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing abilities.
- Experience organizing territory coverage and optimizing sales reputed company.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field; advanced degree a plus.
Performance Metrics
- Achievement of quarterly and annual reputed company targets.
- Distributor performance metrics (pipeline growth, win rates, coverage expansion, training completion).
- Forecast accuracy and adherence to reporting rhythms.
- Growth in territory penetration and new customer acquisition.
- Customer satisfaction and long-term customer retention.