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Airgas is Hiring for an Area Vice President!

At Airgas we RESPECT HONOR and VALUE diversity. We are invested in cultivating a dynamic and inclusive culture.

We are looking for you!

• Strong passion for fostering an environment of Diversity Inclusion and Respect.

• Experience with developing contributing and supporting Airgas commitment to a World Class Service exceeding customer expectations and building brand loyalty.

Excellent Benefits: Airgas offers a full benefits package that includes: Medical Dental Vision Life AD&D Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance Vacation Sick Paid Holidays 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match Tuition Assistance and much more! Benefits Start after 30 days of employment

Recruiter: Quentin Chavis Jr. / /

Job Description Summary: The Area Vice President (AVP) provides leadership to an assigned business area developing and directing the business plan and strategy in conjunction with the executive management team. The AVP maintains full profit and loss responsibility for the business area and regularly provides review and corrective action plans to executive management. This position identifies and leads the planning and execution of growth strategies in the assigned business area.

• Develops and executes area business strategies and annual plans in conjunction with the Regional President and executive team consistent with the Airgas Core Strategy and Strategic Products plans.

• Provides regular review of the business area operations to the Regional President and executive team to include: Profit & Loss (P&L) review and analysis of sales margin expense and EBITDA trends; analysis of major variances to plan performance and executes corrective action plans.

• Delivers overall top line performance in line with established field sales goals and branch business plans actively leading all sales efforts in the area by: establishing sales territories quotas and goals; identifying ongoing new business opportunities; leveraging all regional national and vendor resources to achieve sales goals; and actively leading recruiting and hiring efforts for all customer facing associates.

• Establishes communicates and maintains the safety culture at assigned business area consistent with regional divisional and national policies procedures and direction.

• Responsible for execution of Area Accident and Injury Reduction Plans consistent with Airgas Safety Council and SAFECOR guidelines.

• Ensures that responsibility for safety is a focus throughout the organization.

• Provides leadership management direction motivation training and ongoing development to all Airgas field associates in the AVPs assigned business area. Through Sales and Branch management assures that all subordinates are trained and follow position specific procedures and processes affecting product quality or service provided to our customers.

• Ensures that changes to procedures are reviewed approved and validated prior to implementation.

• Provides leadership customer feedback and participates in ongoing operations improvements at major plants to insure outstanding customer service levels.

• Actively participates on the regional management team to provide and maintain region wide culture teamwork and plan/execute all region wide initiatives.

• Maintains a work environment characterized by mutual respect and is free of unlawful discrimination harassment or retaliation.

• Adheres to all federal state and local EEO laws.

• Actively support the companys affirmative action goals.

• Other projects/initiatives as assigned.

Are you a MATCH

Required Qualifications

• Four-year college degree from an accredited institution in Business Accounting Finance Marketing Sales Management Engineering or related field.

• Minimum of 10 years of increasing responsibility in business to business sales-related or sales operations positions to include prior experience managing a team and a P&L.

• A track record of achieving profitable sales growth and managing the dynamics of change is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience within industrial and/or medical sales highly preferred

• Working knowledge of SAP preferred.

• Bilingual a plus but not required

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• A reputation for strong leadership skills and the capability of developing and managing a team of experienced sales professionals with a strong emphasis on customer excellence and customer-focused results is required.

• Versatility to function effectively in a fast paced and changing business environment.

• Excellent motivational skills.

• Ability to analyze a business opportunity and develop a successful sales strategy to acquire new business.

• Demonstrated knowledge of business and accounting concepts including but not limited to Return on Investment P&L statements balance sheets interest and leasing calculations and margin responsibilities.

• Tough minded take charge change agent who challenges the status quo and acts with a sense of urgency

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence others and to create cross-functional alignment.

• Must possess excellent communication skills especially in the development of action plans and to ensure accountability and follow through.

• Ability to make highly effective oral and written presentations and proposals to all levels of management.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Employee will be required to transverse through branch office and/or production warehouse locations.

• Employee will frequently be required to actively listen and exchange information.

• Employee will be required to observe and assess information received via computer.

• Requires use of computer telephone and operation of a motor vehicle.

• Requires ability to conduct business travel by automobile up to 50% of the time.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The characteristics listed below are representative of the work environment typically encountered by an individual while performing the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Occasional regional travel.

• Minimal overnight travel.

• Must have reliable appropriate transportation.

• Job requires visitation of various Airgas and customer sites which have varying environments/conditions layouts and accessibility.

We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans vacation sick time floating holidays and paid holidays for full-time employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds tuition reimbursement discounted college tuition for employees dependents and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their race gender sexual orientation religion disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic.

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Companys written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process please contact us by email at .

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