AAF International offers the most comprehensive clean air solutions available across the globe. Selling under the American Air Filter® and the AAF International® brand names, AAF International has been an industry pioneer since 1921 with manufacturing operations in 22 countries with over 6000 employees globally. Our products are the industry benchmarks for quality and performance. Our applications include commercial, industrial and residential solutions from the filters used in your home to the most critical cleanroom and power generation applications.

We are a member of the Daikin Group, the world's largest air conditioning provider with $30 billion in revenue and over 75,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 1924, Daikin has grown into a diversified industrial manufacturing company offering solutions in clean, air, air conditioning, refrigeration, chemicals, oil hydraulics, defense systems and electronics.

Our culture of continuous improvement, safety, and world class operations is driven by our people-centered management philosophy. This philosophy is built around mutual selection: that while AAF seeks top talent people to join and deliver on our team, we also want each team member to receive job satisfaction, growth & development, and continued happiness in being a long-term member of the AAF family. This is fueled by our belief in treating our people, our supply partners, our customers and our environment with the trust and respect we each require, and our passion to give back to our community for our success.

Read more about our philosophy at: http://www.daikin.com/about/corporate/philosophy/index.html

AAF International is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran.

Position Objective:

The District Sales Manager promotes and sells AAF International's products and services in accordance with established sales policies and procedures while maintaining relationships with existing customers.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop relationships by demonstrating company services/products to customers through personal meetings, seminars and surveys.
• Inform customers of supply and price and supply trends and assists in inventory control and product availability.
• Secure and renews orders and performs other selling activities. Responsible for growing sales and profitability of assigned areas.
• Call on existing or potential customers to establish and maintain relationships.
• Stay informed on new products and other general information of interest to customers.
• Maintain records and submits timely reports on all phases of activities, included but not limited to call reports, as required by management.
• Stay informed of changes in assigned territory that might affect product sales. Gathers and shares information regarding competitive product development total customer satisfaction as measured by established criteria.
• Maintain a teamwork philosophy with other departments to facilitate problem solving and provide good customer service.
• Moderate travel may be required (30%).
• Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

Position Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Business or related field preferred;
2. Understanding and experience with high-value added product selling, pricing, negotiating and channel management;
3. Ability to communicate and sell both products and value concepts at all organizational levels;
4. Must be able to synthesize various input and ideas into relevant and clear strategies and secure buy-in from diverse teams in order to implement them;
5. Possesses a natural way of influencing, both internally and externally;
6. Must have experience in providing strategic direction for the development of targeting marketing and promotional campaigns designed to achieve specific growth objectives;
7. Team player with proven success in building strong national and remote sales teams;
8. 1-2 years prior selling experience;
9. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint);
10. SAP and/or CRM preferred.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, veteran status, uniform servicemember status, age, disability or any other legally recognized protected personal characteristics.