Otter Products is a fast-growing business seeking a Regional Manager who will be responsible for the overall turnover of the DACH region, taking a hands-on lead in managing our DACH sales team and building long-term strategic relationships with key partners throughout the region. They will report to the Sales Director responsible for South EMEA and DACH regions and they will be responsible for driving sales growth within the region, determining distribution channel strategy to service key retailers/etailers, driving their sales-out and penetrating all relevant sales channels in this region. The Regional Manager will role model servant leadership and hold team members accountable to these principles.

From our founder’s garage in 1998 to the global technology leader we are today, Otter Products continues to drive growth through innovation. Our industry-leading brands, OtterBox, LifeProof and Liviri lead the way to help people do more and go more places with technology in hand. Otter Products is a global company of more than 900 Otters (employees) with offices in Fort Collins, Colo., San Diego, Calif., Hong Kong, and Cork, Ireland. Our mission is simple – We Grow to Give which comes to life by way of our charitable arm, the OtterCares Foundation. From innovation and engineering to community and culture – growing to give is at the heart of everything we do. For more information visit otterproducts.com.

• Own the development and implementation of a successful sales & marketing strategy within the region to build on the OtterBox channels already in place, via new account acquisition, existing account management and account expansion, to ensure that Consumer channels (Retail, Online, Telco, Outdoor) and Enterprise channel are all growing successfully
• Lead the identification of growth opportunities across the region and supporting team members to drive growth opportunities within their accounts as well as developing new account
• Ownership of developing and maintaining long-term strategic relationships with new and existing key partners across the region
• Through the principles of servant leadership, coach and develop team members to achieve and drive strategic business objectives
• Proactively arrange and conduct client visits
• Maintain detailed customer records, managing and tracking leads, sales, KPI’s and metrics
• Build and enhance a strategy to leverage distribution partners to seek out opportunities and deliver and exceed revenue targets
• Assume responsibility for regular sales Outlook and NPIs forecast and reports to ensure effective forward planning
• Work with team on monthly, quarterly and yearly sales goals and plans to deliver and exceed company gross and net revenue goals
• Ensure customer satisfaction and providing the best possible experience for the customer with OtterBox brand
• Perform effectively in a variety of formal presentation settings; commanding attention and managing group process during presentation; changing tactics midstream when something is not working
• Travel to trade show appearances to meet with customers and partners throughout the region
• Develop and deliver innovative programs/campaigns to drive sales-out in all relevant channels
• Serve as champion of product knowledge and training for both existing and newly launched Otter products
• Collaborate with colleagues to exchange selling strategies
• Partner cross functionally with internal departments such as marketing, product, operations and finance in the execution of company strategic goals and objectives

• 10+ years’ experience leading and managing a sales team within a high growth environment
• Strong knowledge of DACH B2C and B2B customers and Enterprise Channel is a must
• Knowledge of the mobile phone industry or consumer electronics industry
• Strong leader, used to working in teams and ready to be hands-on to support the team in implementing growth strategies
• Demonstrated history of accomplishment and excellent knowledge of retail/Telco/enterprise and distribution sales challenges in the DACH region and how to sell successfully through distribution channels to deliver significant retail/Telco/enterprise revenues
• An ability to exercise superior judgment to do what is right for the company, employees and the customer at all times
• Possess good judgment about which creative ideas and suggestions will work; can facilitate effective brainstorming; can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace
• Strategic thinker.  Able to take key product features, benefits, messages combined with knowledge of retail and business analytics and define new strategies and tactics to exploit opportunities
• A planner and a closer.  Articulates the big picture plan and delivers against it 
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate in a variety of settings
• Organizational skills and the ability to excel at details, multi-tasking, and working under pressure
• Excellent leadership skills with a positive can-do attitude.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); knowledge of PowerBI is a plus
• Fluent written and oral German & English
• Full clean driving license

Otter Products is an equal employment opportunity employer (EEO).
All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a minority, birth, disability, age, sexual identity or any other characteristic.

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USD $0.00/Yr.