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Vestis Corporation

Sales Manager

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Chicago, IL, USA
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Chicago, IL, USA
Mid level
Leads a territory sales team and drives profitable B2B sales growth. Responsibilities include recruiting, coaching, and developing Account Executives; monitoring activity and performance; identifying new business opportunities through consultative selling; and building internal and external relationships to support sales success. Requires outside sales and sales-management experience, strong communication skills, proficiency with Microsoft Office and contact-management software, a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, a valid driver’s license, and willingness to travel overnight.
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Meet Vestis®: For the People Who Make It All Work

At Vestis®, we provide uniforms, workplace supplies, and professional cleaning that help businesses simplify their workday and keep their teams safe, confident, and focused on what matters most. More than a provider, we are a partner in productivity, trusted to keep you running.

Join us and build a career supporting the people who make it all work.

Responsibilities/Essential Functions

  • Lead a team of sales professionals and drive profitable sales growth in assigned territory
  • Recruit, develop, coach, and support new and existing Account Executives, and ensure that they meet their weekly activity guidelines to achieve high performance
  • Evaluate and develop existing and new business opportunities through a consultative selling approach
  • Build strong relationships, internally and externally, to ensure the overall success of new sales.

 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

  • Strong track record of accomplishments and demonstrated success managing sales professionals through the use of formal activity guidelines and technology based measurement systems
  • Professional presence and proficiency in consultative selling skills
  • Strong presentation and communication skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and contact-management software such as Salesforce, ACT, etc

Experience

  • Minimum two years business-to-business outside sales experience focused on new account generation, preferably selling a service
  • Minimum three years managing sales professionals using an account management approach (prospecting, selling, growing, maintaining, and retaining accounts)

 

Travel Requirements

Willing to travel, including some overnight travel

 

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

 

License Requirements/ Certifications

A valid driver’s license


Headquartered in Roswell, GA, Vestis® is the second largest provider in the industry with over 300,000 customer locations and approximately 20,000 teammates across North America. Vestis® is a leader in the B2B uniform and workplace supplies category. Vestis® provides clean and safe uniform services and workplace supplies to a broad range of North American customers from Fortune 500 companies to locally owned small businesses across a broad set of end markets. The Company’s comprehensive service offering includes a full-service uniform rental program, cleanroom and other specialty garment processing, floor mats, towels, linens, managed restroom services, first aid supplies and more.

 

Vestis® is an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, relation, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.

 

Vestis Commitment to Equal Opportunity Employment

If you are a job seeker with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, you will find the contact information below to request the appropriate accommodation.

Reasonable Accommodations and the Online Application Process
Consistent with Vestis and Canadian Linen’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Vestis or Canadian Linen, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-833-901-8823 or email us at [email protected].

Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Thank you for your interest in an employment opportunity with Vestis, Canadian Linen and Québec Linge.

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