The Regional Sales Manager for Emerson Shared Sales (ESS) is responsible for driving sales growth, program execution, and customer engagement across a designated geographic region. This role serves as the primary field-based representative for Emerson business units and contracted customers, partnering closely with regional leadership, merchandising teams, and store operations within The Home Depot.
Success in this role requires building strong customer relationships, identifying growth opportunities, supporting merchandising and promotional initiatives, and ensuring consistent execution of national and regional sales strategies. The Regional Sales Manager will act as a key liaison between customers and Emerson stakeholders, providing market insights and helping deliver business objectives related to sales, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
Drive regional sales growth through promotional programs, merchandising initiatives, customer engagement strategies, and approved sales opportunities.
Build and maintain strong partnerships with regional and local customer leadership, ensuring products, programs, and solutions remain highly visible and effectively represented.
Collaborate with business units to support customer initiatives, merchandising projects, store refresh/new store activities, planogram implementation, innovation center support, and other strategic assignments.
Meet regularly with regional customer decision-makers to identify growth opportunities and strengthen business relationships.
Utilize customer and business analytics tools to monitor performance, identify trends, and recommend actions that improve results.
Partner with field merchandising and operations teams to address execution challenges, improve performance, and resolve store-level issues.
Conduct regular field visits(on average 4 days/week) to verify program implementation, gather customer feedback, and ensure alignment with business objectives.
Support and deliver training for customer teams, merchandising partners, and internal stakeholders when needed.
Focus on key stores and new store locations to maximize program adoption, product placement opportunities, and incremental sales growth.
Represent Emerson at customer meetings, regional training events, contractor events, industry shows, and other business development activities.
Gather and communicate market intelligence, including competitive activities, pricing trends, merchandising opportunities, and customer insights.
Support account management activities for assigned regional customers and related business partners.
Who You Are:
You build strong formal and informal networks and work collaboratively across teams to achieve shared goals. You seek opportunities to deliver value by understanding customer needs and translating insights into action. You analyze complex information, identify patterns, and provide solutions to stakeholders that support business success. You consistently drive results by remaining focused on priorities, adapting to changing circumstances, and following through on commitments. You adjust communication to fit the audience and the message.
For This Role, You Will Need:
Valid driver's license and ability to travel within the assigned region.
Experience building customer relationships and supporting sales growth in a retail, merchandising, consumer products, or related environment.
Experience working with large retail customers, field merchandising teams, or customer-facing sales organizations.
Strong communication, relationship-building, and presentation skills.
Ability to interpret business data and use insights to make recommendations and drive action.
Strong organizational, planning, and time-management capabilities.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
Ability to travel extensively throughout the region, including overnight travel as business needs require.
Ability to lift and move product displays or materials, climb ladders, and perform light merchandising activities when needed.
Ability to work safely in retail, warehouse, and light construction environments.
Preferred Qualifications That Set You Apart:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Sales, or a related field.
Experience supporting The Home Depot or a similar large retail organization.
Experience with retail merchandising, planogram management, store operations, or field execution programs.
Familiarity with customer analytics platforms, supplier portals, and performance reporting tools.
Knowledge of consumer products, tools, home improvement, or related industries.
Experience conducting product training, customer education, or field support initiatives.
Our Culture and Commitment To You:
At Emerson, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to contribute. We believe diverse perspectives drive innovation and help us better serve our customers and communities around the world.
We invest in our people through meaningful work, development opportunities, collaboration, and a culture built on integrity and respect. We welcome candidates from a variety of experiences and backgrounds and encourage individuals to apply even if they do not meet every preferred qualification.
Together, we create sustainable solutions, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and make a meaningful impact through our work.
At Emerson, our employee's passion for innovation and results drives our success. We actively pursue new technologies, capabilities and approaches to drive tangible value for our customers. To reward this passion for innovation and results, Emerson makes meaningful investments in our people. We provide competitive compensation, integrated benefits offerings and fulfilling career journeys that support the growth of each employee. We firmly believe that when Emerson is successful in achieving its operational and financial goals, our employees share in the company's success. The base salary range for this role is $100,000 - $125,000 annually commensurate with the skills, talent, capabilities, and experience each candidate brings to the role. This role also includes a bonus based on performance.
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WHY EMERSON (https://www1.emerson.com/en/corporate/careers/meet-emerson)
Our Commitment to Our People
At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.
We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world's most complex problems - for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You'll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.
At Emerson, you'll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let's go. Let's think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let's go, together.
Work Authorization
Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
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ABOUT EMERSON (https://www1.emerson.com/en/corporate/about-us)
Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.
With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.
We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you're an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you'll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team - let's go!
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Requisition ID : 26010715
Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.
