Regional BD Manager

Americold•Atlanta, GA

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Regional BD Manager will be responsible for establishing new business and managing customer relations within the Texas, Missouri, and Kansas territory. The successful candidate must reside within this geographical area. This role involves developing annual sales goals, monitoring site performance (EBITDA), managing commercial performance of customers, and collaborating with District Operation Directors on budgets and financial goals. The position also requires developing a district funnel management process, understanding the regional competitive landscape and pricing, and supporting M&A activities. Key responsibilities include partnering with the Director of Business Development on regional marketing plans, managing warehouse and transportation services, identifying value-added services, and ensuring billing capture. The role emphasizes relationship management, including cross-selling, customer retention, issue resolution, and conducting customer business reviews. It also involves being the voice of the customer internally, managing site capacity to maximize EBITDA, sequencing customers for new and exiting business, managing customer mix, and densification. Contract management, including negotiation and ensuring database accuracy, is crucial. The role also includes identifying continuous improvement projects, marketing transportation services, managing the annual GRI process, and securing yield management initiatives. Developing individual sales budgets, quarterly plans, and understanding company resources are also key duties. The position requires interfacing with other departments to ensure alignment with company goals and compliance with employment laws.

Requirements

5-7 years of distribution sales experience with a minimum of 3 years in a field sales management position with increasing responsibilities.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Sales, or Marketing or equivalent training in Business or Sales Management, Masters a plus.
Must have relative industry experience including distribution, warehousing, logistics, transportation, CPG, etc. and understand common business practices and standards.
Must have supply chain knowledge within the industry scope, along with a strong financial acumen.
Experience forming and maintaining new business relationships.
Successful candidate must live within the geographical area of Texas, Missouri and Kansas.

Nice To Haves

Negotiation and mediation skills.
Existing network of contacts.
Experience in needs assessment, documentation, and process improvement.
Strong customer orientation.
Strong presentation skills.
Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Effective sales management skills with the ability to develop and manage regional strategies for pipeline development.
Excellent presentation preparation and delivery skills are required including strong PowerPoint abilities.
Proven ability in developing creative solutions for potential and current customers.
Entrepreneurial approach to responsibilities and selling Americold’s services; must be a self-starter that can function in an ambiguous environment.
Must have a customer-focused professional demeanor and presentation style.
Strong time management, communications, decision-making, organization, human relations, presentation, negotiation, and mediation skills.
Ability to coordinate multiple tasks in deadline driven, fast paced environment.
Proven business savvy, possess financial acumen and understanding budgeting.
Strong ability to form and foster business relationships.
Demonstrate a partnership approach in working with the facilities on selling Americold’s AOS.

Responsibilities

Develop annual sales goals, performance standards, reporting functions, and appropriate measurements for all accounts.
Monitor each assigned site’s EBITDA and ensure it is maximized by proactively managing the commercial performance of each customer, ensuring deals are accretive to the site and at the correct market rate.
Work with District Operation Directors to establish district level budget and work collaboratively to achieve financial goals.
Develop district funnel management process; ability to initiate and execute proactive lead management to support targeted sales process.
Develop an understanding of regional competitive landscape and pricing. Provide critical support for M&A activities including market intelligence, target companies, customer and competitive insight.
Partner with Director of Business Development to develop and execute specific regional marketing plans to ensure revenue growth in all products and facilities.
Responsible for Warehouse & Transportation TBD; Ensure Value added services and Accessorial programs are identified and ensure billing capture; target customer acquisition for high TBD & critical sites.
Relationship Management-Making sure we are in sync with customers; cross sell other products including transportation, blast, date coding; Reduce churn through high customer retention; lead Issue escalation & resolution as well as billing challenges. Compile and execute timely Customer Business reviews.
Be the voice of the customer internally by providing customer and industry feedback to internal stakeholders.
Owning a site’s capacity to ensure there’s the correct capacity layout to maximize EBITDA. This includes the analysis of customers and seeing that their individual service needs are being met with the correct storage media.
Opportunity qualification by assigned sites.
Customer sequencing and transition – Sequencing in customers for new and exiting business to support site budgets.
Customer mix management- Making sure customer has the right profile for site.
Densification: Making the final call on opportunity vetting from a commercial perspective, leading both regional and key account/major owners to the proper sequencing of business in accord with commercial constraints and financial targets.
Contract Management: Ensure management of contract maintenance items and contract negotiations. Establish contract gap baseline, documented contract gap closure plan by site, ensuring each contract includes a dually signed document, ensure contract is in our database, each contract has a profile, and lines up with our invoice.
Responsible for the identification of continuous improvement project through active Kaizen id and execution.
Market and sell Americold’s various transportation services, inclusive of MVC and Regional/National Freight Consolidation programs.
Deliver and manage the annual GRI (General Rate Increase) process for assigned facilities.
Find, develop and secure yield management initiatives designed to enhance EBITDA.
Follow established departmental documentation procedures.
Develop individual sales budget.
Develop and review quarterly plan to ensure alignment with long range vision and short term goals.
Know company resources in order to develop business priorities.
Find, develop and secure new business.
Provide data for pricing proposal approval process.
Interface with other departments to ensure departmental participation in company goals and directives.
As a shared responsibility, ensure compliance with employment laws.