Territory Manager - South Texas and Louisiana

This position is primarily responsible for developing a strong brand preference for Haldex core products with key Warehouse Distributors, OES Dealers, Small O/E accounts, and Fleets. This full scope responsibility includes development of sales and marketing programs and assist in marketing programs, product, and sales training, and development of the overall independent aftermarket and maintaining O/E's in assigned territory.As an employee at Haldex, you are expected to perform by Haldex values: Customer First, Respect for the Individual and Passion for Excellence. Haldex employees participate in creating a bridge building culture and act with 5C behavior: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Coach and Create. Employees should engage in results driven continuous improvement and purposeful application of Haldex Way.Duties & ResponsibilitiesIncrease sales of Haldex products to distribution partnersTravels throughout assigned territory to call on regular and prospective customers to solicit orders, promote products, train distributor sales representatives

Develop and implement promotions to grow Haldex sales

Gain Haldex fleet specifications at key regional and target fleets

Maintain a high level of personal product application knowledge

Making technical product presentations to customer groups

Displays or demonstrates product, using samples or catalog, and emphasizes saleable features

Understands & uses value added selling tools

Maintaining close relationships with marketing and sales team

Conducting product application and installation training

Communicate effectively with all customers, peers and with management

Quotes prices and credit terms and prepares sales contracts for orders obtained

Must work within Haldex budget requirements

Prepares reports of business transactions and keeps expense accounts

Works with customer service representatives to keep account activities up to date

Enters new customer data and other sales data for current customers into computer database or provides information to customer service

Investigates and resolves customer problems with deliveries

Attends trade shows

Complete yearly / Territory business plans

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or minimum of 5 years related experience and/or training in the Heavy Duty Vehicle Industry; or equivalent combination of education and experience

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations

Ability to write professional reports and business correspondence

Strong presentation skills including responding professionally to questions from groups of managers and customers

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistics, fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

Knowledge of Contact Management systems; Database software; Internet software; Order processing systems; Microsoft Office Applications - specifically PowerPoint, Excel and Word

Additional Qualifications:

Must be able to travel by air, car, or other means of standard transportation, up to 75% both domestically and internationally

Must be able to qualify for Corporate Credit Card

Must maintain a valid driver license

Must comply with company Safety rules

Physical Demands : The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.Work Environment

Independent homebased work environment. Up to 75% of the job is spent traveling, as outlined above.