Senior Manager, Certified Renew (CRN) Sales Category - Category Management

Position Summary

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Role and Responsibilities

Position Overview

The primary purpose of this role is to cross-functionally lead achievement of sales, margin, and profit goals for the Samsung Certified Re-Newed (CRN) and Refurbished categories across multiple sales channels. The selected candidate will work directly with internal and external sales channel leaders to provide oversight and guidance to achieve all applicable targets and KPIs. This role is based out of the Plano, TX office and will report directly to the Director of the CRN/Trade-in Product Management category.

Role & Responsibilities

• Manage: Lead Sales for the CRN and Refurbished category by driving: top line growth, promotional and marketing plans, internal / external / HQ partnerships, supply chain and distribution, and long-term growth strategy
• Lead and persuade cross-functional and direct report teams in executing strategy and tactical plan
• Oversee multiple Sales Funnels to ensure proper channel level execution
• Monitor and analyze channel sales performance, explain performance variations and effectively adjust any necessary action plans required to achieve results
• Manage communications, sales promotion development, and training as required to stimulate and facilitate the sale of Samsung CRN products
• Build: Develop comprehensive business strategy for channels based upon analyses of their strategy, capabilities, financial analysis, customer insights, portfolio, promotions, marketing, and customer demand
• Establish high-level as well as tactical relationships with channel sales teams, marketing and product teams
• Establish annual sales targets and respective channel go to market strategies to ensure quarterly revenue targets are exceeded and foundation is being laid for long term growth
• Foster strong relationships with key channel executives in order to successfully position the Samsung CRN portfolio and align near-term CRN sales strategy
• Optimize:  Design channel specific supporting tactical plan, collaborating across multiple teams internally and externally, maximizing team resources and capabilities
• Drive the business forward and deliver sell-thru and other specified results tied to Samsung CRN products and solutions
• Prepare and present reports and management analysis to establish business plans. Report on the performance of the assigned business division against plan
• Align with internal stakeholders to ensure Supply and Production demands meet sales forecast
• Analyze business trends to work internally to develop Yearly, Quarterly, and Monthly Sales Forecasts
• Innovate: think outside-the-box, leverage data, and build insights to create business cases to build scalable products and promotions to drive the growth of your business; develop functional capabilities to test, learn, and iterate to accelerate category growth
• Develop data-driven perspectives on the end-to-end operations of the business. Identify areas of opportunity and work cross-functionally to drive operational efficiencies
• Interface effectively at all levels of the Samsung CRN organization to obtain support for strategy and tactical plan, including negotiating and executing necessary arrangements, managing internal company processes, and adhering to company guidelines and policies

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of enterprise technology sales or business development experience
• Proven overachiever, track record of quarterly / annual sales success
• Self-starter and very capable on both business and technical fronts
• Previous experience and success in selling technical solutions
• Ability to lead and motivate a team of 2-3 direct reports
• Ability to facilitate cross-functional teams and navigate matrixed organizations
• Strong analytical, data-driven problem solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work under pressure and deadlines. In addition, must be able to manage multiple projects and often competing priorities
• Entrepreneurial spirit and excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

Skills and Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA degree and 6+ years of relevant work experience
• Knowledge of mobile handset market, OEMs and carriers preferred
• 3-5 years of experience selling mobile solutions at or with a US carrier preferred

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