Sr. Manager, Strategic Accounts (RNC)

Lennox (NYSE: LII) Driven by 130 years of legacy HVAC and refrigeration success Lennox provides our residential and commercial customers with industry-leading climate-control solutions. At Lennox we win as a team aiming for excellence and delivering innovative sustainable products and services. Our culture guides us and creates a workplace where all employees feel heard and welcomed. Lennox is a global community that values each team members contributions and offers a supportive environment for career development. Come stay and grow with us.

Under limited supervision this role focuses on driving team success through leadership coaching and development of a high-performing team of Strategic Account Managers responsible for the companys most complex or critical national account partners. The position emphasizes developing team capability ensuring effective delegation of national account partners delivering profitable growth owning program design and executive communication and maximizing sales opportunities through effective leadership and cross-functional collaboration with executive leadership.

Key Responsibilities
Directs coaches and mentors a team of Strategic Account Managers ensuring alignment with organizational goals effective delegation of the largest and most complex national account partners and maximization of team performance in account strategy negotiation margin discipline and consistent execution of sales processes.
Oversees the teams efforts to maintain and grow profitable sustainable partnerships with critical national account partners while delivering exceptional customer experience and trust-based relationships.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitates collaboration across marketing supply chain finance field sales and acquired business units; drives alignment on new distribution/OEM strategies and rapidly adapts team processes to organizational and marketplace changes.
Program Leadership & Innovation: Owns the design continuous improvement and rollout of national account program guidelines playbooks pricing structures and incentives; proactively identifies and implements innovative approaches to adapt programs to acquisitions new OEM and distribution capabilities CapEx projects and changing market conditions.
Strategic Communication: Creates and gains approval for all critical channel communications to internal and external stakeholders in the channel; national account partners individual contributors and executives across the organization as examples.
Sales Growth Initiatives: Recommends and implements creative forward-thinking team strategies and programs to increase profitable sales and share-of-wallet with priority national account partners in response to internal growth and external market shifts.
New Business Development (National Account Partners) Drives the teams new-business efforts by setting clear and profitable growth targets for acquiring new national account partners. Owns the annual new-business target (volume margin and number of new national account partners) builds and maintains a robust prospect pipeline assigns highpotential opportunities to team members and provides active coaching and oversight to ensure successful closure and onboarding of new partnerships

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 8 years of related experience including team leadership in strategic accounts.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex programs and manage teams to achieve strategic objectives.
• Strong business acumen with expertise in identifying strategic opportunities and driving team success.
• Advanced relationship-building listening persuasion negotiation and time management skills.
• In-depth knowledge of marketing strategy product demonstration sales techniques and sales control systems.
• Proficient in forecasting strategic planning and end-to-end budget development and execution.
• Expertise in customer service principles including needs assessment quality standards and satisfaction evaluation.
• Proven ability to manage and develop team members to optimize performance.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Customer Relationship Management software.

Compensation:This is a salaried exempt role. The starting salary range for this role and market is between $144800 - $190050 annually. Factors that may affect starting salary include geography/market and the skills education experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate. Employees in this role are also eligible for an annual bonus in accordance with the terms of the Companys applicable plan. Employees in this role are not eligible for overtime.

Benefits:Subject to applicable eligibility requirements the following benefits are offered for this role: tuition reimbursement; medical dental and vision insurance; prescription drug coverage; 401(k) retirement plan; short-term disability insurance; 8 weeks paid birthing leave; 2 weeks paid bonding leave; life and long-term disability insurance.

Depending on date of hire and subject to applicable eligibility requirements new employees in this role also receive up to: 12 days paid time off 2 paid well-being days 1 paid volunteer day 12 paid holidays and 3 floating holidays per year.

Our Culture: At Lennox our Core Values of Integrity Respect & Excellence are ingrained in the fabric of the organization. They define our culture which is about how we do business and how we treat others. Lennox is not just a workplace; we are a global community that values each team members contributions. As an equal opportunity employer we are committed to recruit develop and retain talented individuals from a wide range of backgrounds ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to succeed and contribute to our continued growth and success. At Lennox youll take pride in our brands knowing you are part of something special. Come stay and grow with us!

Disclaimers:The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Lennox reserves the right to modify this information at any time with or without notice subject to applicable law.

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