What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Manager position at American Cutting Edge, Inc.?
Are you a proven sales leader who knows how to build winning teams, create accountability, and turn growth opportunities into measurable results?
ACE is seeking a Sales Manager to lead our sales organization and drive profitable revenue growth. We are proud to have been recognized as one of Dayton’s Best Places to Work for the past five years , reflecting our commitment to creating a workplace where employees can grow, succeed, and make an impact.
This highly visible leadership role will develop and execute strategies focused on four key growth areas:
Drive Revenue Growth
Success In This Role Will Be Evaluated Through
You are competitive, customer-focused, data-driven, and passionate about helping others succeed. You know how to establish accountability, raise performance standards, coach underperformers, and create disciplined sales processes that produce results.
You enjoy being in the field with customers and sales professionals—and you have a demonstrated ability to turn potential into performance.
Work Environment: Office-based position with up to 50% travel to customer locations and occasional exposure to manufacturing environments.
Ready to lead, grow, and make an impact? We want to hear from you.
ACE is seeking a Sales Manager to lead our sales organization and drive profitable revenue growth. We are proud to have been recognized as one of Dayton’s Best Places to Work for the past five years , reflecting our commitment to creating a workplace where employees can grow, succeed, and make an impact.
This highly visible leadership role will develop and execute strategies focused on four key growth areas:
- Winning and expanding National Accounts
- Penetrating unsold locations within existing multi-location customers
- Reactivating dormant and lost customers
- Increasing share of wallet through cross-selling and new application development
Drive Revenue Growth
- Develop and execute sales strategies that increase revenue, profitability, and market share.
- Lead the company’s National Account strategy by identifying, pursuing, and securing strategic multi-location customers.
- Expand relationships within existing customer networks and penetrate previously unsold locations.
- Develop programs to reactivate dormant accounts and recover lost business.
- Increase customer share of wallet through cross-selling, upselling, and new application development.
- Establish annual, quarterly, and monthly sales plans aligned with company growth objectives.
- Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing sales professionals.
- Establish clear performance expectations, activity standards, and accountability measures.
- Provide hands-on coaching through customer visits, ride-alongs, call reviews, and opportunity assessments.
- Create individual development plans and build a strong succession pipeline.
- Foster a high-performance culture centered on execution, continuous improvement, and customer success.
- Maintain a healthy, predictable sales pipeline capable of supporting revenue goals.
- Ensure disciplined use of CRM tools, opportunity-management processes, and forecasting methodologies.
- Monitor key metrics, including pipeline growth, win rates, account penetration, sales activity, and revenue attainment.
- Lead strategic account reviews and opportunity-planning sessions.
- Develop executive-level relationships with strategic customers and industry stakeholders.
- Participate in major customer meetings, contract negotiations, and strategic business reviews.
- Identify market trends, competitive threats, and new growth opportunities.
- Partner with Marketing to develop campaigns supporting customer acquisition, account reactivation, and market expansion.
- Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Customer Care, Finance, Product Management, and Marketing to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
- Lead initiatives that improve quoting speed, responsiveness, customer retention, and sales productivity.
- Champion the voice of the customer throughout the organization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 10 years of progressive B2B sales leadership experience.
- A proven record of leading teams that consistently exceed revenue and profitability goals.
- Demonstrated success winning National Accounts and expanding multi-location customer relationships.
- Experience increasing share of wallet, recovering dormant accounts, and winning business from competitors.
- Strong knowledge of CRM processes, sales forecasting, pipeline management, and performance metrics.
- A successful background in coaching, mentoring, and developing sales professionals.
- Experience selling industrial, manufacturing, distribution, or engineered products is preferred.
Success In This Role Will Be Evaluated Through
- Revenue and gross-margin growth
- National Account development
- Penetration of unsold customer locations
- Dormant-account reactivation
- Increased customer share of wallet
- Pipeline coverage and quality
- Sales-team productivity
- CRM compliance and forecasting accuracy
- Employee retention and development
You are competitive, customer-focused, data-driven, and passionate about helping others succeed. You know how to establish accountability, raise performance standards, coach underperformers, and create disciplined sales processes that produce results.
You enjoy being in the field with customers and sales professionals—and you have a demonstrated ability to turn potential into performance.
Work Environment: Office-based position with up to 50% travel to customer locations and occasional exposure to manufacturing environments.
Ready to lead, grow, and make an impact? We want to hear from you.