Entry- Level Sales Manager-in-Training - Houston, TX

American Marketing & Publishing is a national leader in providing marketing solutions that help family-owned businesses show up visibly and attractively online when customers in their community start to search. With a proprietary platform for managing business listings, photos, posts, reviews, and website content across major search sites and social platforms such as Google, Bing, Facebook and Nextdoor, AMP powers the effective online marketing of tens of thousands of local business. We sell these full-service, best-in-class marketing solutions at the lowest rates in the entire marketing industry, and our customers and sales teams are backed up by a 27 year history of consistent strong results.

We’d like to talk with you if your career objectives include:

· Unlimited Opportunity for Professional Growth

· Extensive Professional Training and Mentorship from Company Executives

· A Positive Culture that Celebrates Hard Work, Personal Growth, Learning, and Achievement

· On-Target First Year Earnings of $70,000-$100,000

We are interviewing to identify the sales leader around whom we will build our Houston inside sales office. The right candidate for this highly influential and financially rewarding role will report directly to the Senior Vice President of Sales in an accelerated sales leadership development program. They will become responsible for building a team of business development sales representatives to work over the phone in our Houston office, to present to and sell advertising and marketing solutions to small business owners. The Manager-in-Training will co-manage this new team alongside the Senior Vice President of Sales, prior to taking on full Inside Sales Manager responsibilities over a period of 9-12 months.

A Manager-in-Training (MIT) is exclusively focused on making sales personally and in a sales training capacity as they build a new inside sales office from the ground up, to accelerate the growth of our existing 15-state service area. MITs participate in a structured training, coaching, and new manager mentorship program that is led by the executives of our 350 person, 27 year old business.

Responsibilities:

· Develop mastery of the AMP sale by learning and following established AMP best practices to identify leads, prospect, and close new accounts. Our sales team managers consistently lead from the front, making their own sales personally while they train and coach the inside sales representatives who begin to report to them.

· Assist in the evaluation and interviewing of prospective new team members.

· Train and develop a team of 15 inside sales representatives in the greater Houston area to acquire new accounts and achieve district growth objectives.

· Close collaboration and coordination with corporate managers in Recruiting, Human Resources, Training, and Operations to equitably administer all company policies.

· Foster and support a fun, positive, hard-working team culture, leading by example.

Requirements:

· Demonstrable record of success in a competitive endeavor, whether academics, athletics, sales, leadership of an organization, or prior workplace distinctions.

· Enthusiasm for personally making sales to small business owners, and the ability to mentor managed sales reps by making sales alongside them successfully.

· Strong presentation and closing skills.

· Hardworking, dependable, genuine, positive, and enthusiastic.

· Ability to plan, multi-task, manage time effectively and lead others

· Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent

Learn more about AMP by clicking this link! https://ampcorporate.wistia.com/medias/askknsvdhr

We don’t believe that success in life or business is a box checking process. Specific sales experience or prior sales management experience is therefore not required of an otherwise accomplished and provably success-oriented individual.