SSM, Solution Sales Manager (West)
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Ford Pro Solutions team is seeking a talented experienced and passionate professional to tell the Ford Pro story to potential customers! The Universal Solutions Sales Manager will be a subject matter expert on Ford Pros ancillary product portfolio and will be responsible for facilitating sales demos and training for channel sales partners including Ford Dealerships. These products primarily include Ford Pro Intelligences software charging equipment and productivity solutions. Successful candidates will combine software expertise and empathy for the end user to attract clients and to develop the software solution to their maximum potential. Additionally ideal candidates will be relationship builders and partner with Ford Dealership personnel to drive additional sales activity and to develop the dealership channel. Universal Solutions Sales Managers will be passionate about software features and sell their benefits with the goal of meeting customer needs and enhancing the stickiness of Ford Pro vehicles and ancillary services.
Responsibilities
What youll do...
- Conduct sales demonstrations to prospective customers (both in person and virtual)
- Provide channel partner training to increase the knowledge level of sales representatives
- Be the point of contact for new clients and channel partners
- Assist with client support as well as customer issue resolution as necessary to support a seamless always-on experience
- Support local dealership partners on sales opportunities within a specified territory
- Generate leads through channel partners and close sales opportunities
- Establish strong positive working relationship with Ford/Lincoln Dealers and their commercial sales team
- Manage prospecting onboarding and ongoing support efforts with prospective / existing customers
- Provide voice of customer feedback on Ford Pro Products to the product development teams
- Follow the defined Lead Management Process for documenting contact with customers
50% travel in the Northwest California geographic area.
Role location: San Francisco CA; Oakland CA; San Jose CA; Santa Cruz CA; Fremont CA; Fairfield CA.
Qualifications
Youll have...
- Associate degree in Business Management Information Systems or equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- 3 years of experience in channel and/or direct sales experience
- CRM software utilization
- Candidates should be located in the Northwest California geographic area.
Even better you may have...
- Bachelors degree in Business Management Information Systems or related field
- 1 years of experience in wireless and GPS
- 2 years of experience in software sales experience strongly preferred
- 2 years of experience in computer-based Applications IT operations and SaaS
- 2 years of with consultative selling with multiple products to offer the end user
- 2 years of experience in Dealership / Channel Management experience
- Salesforce software utilization
- Prior experience in learning new software and equipment products
- You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!
As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
Immediate medical dental vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days paid parental leave new parent ramp-up programs subsidized back-up child care and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more
Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
Tuition assistance
Established and active employee resource groups
Paid time off for individual and team community service
A generous schedule of paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
This position is a salary grade GSR 5-GSR 8.
For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is not available for this position.
Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Organizational Management
- Presentation Skills
- Agile
- SAFe
- AWS
- Solution Architecture
- Conflict Management
- Data Management
- Scrum
- Team Management
- Pre-sales
- Management Consulting
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