Lakeshore Learning Materials, LLC
Director of Retail Sales
Chicago, IL, United States · Director
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About the role
- But today we're working better, smarter and faster than ever-and setting our sights even higher.
- Most importantly, we continue to invest in a diverse team of inquisitive top talent who fuel each other's passions and curiosity, take risks, try new things and believe that every new day brings opportunities for growth.
- You'll spend about 75% of your time on the road with our stores.
Responsibilities
- Experience building B2B, institutional or community outreach sales within a multi-unit retail business
- You build the case from data and can defend it with executives
- You communicate concisely, lead with a recommendation and back it with evidence
- You bring program design and project management discipline from concept through measured outcome
Nice to have
- Leading chain-wide selling programs, such as customer outreach, educator partnerships, community events, loyalty and four-wall conversion, and scaling what works
- Defining recovery plans for at-risk stores with the Vice President of Stores and Territory Managers, using store visits to diagnose root causes and tracking results against KPIs
- Optimizing performance through data, setting the two or three highest priorities each period with the Vice President of Stores
- Providing one of the retail channel's voices with Marketing and Merchandising on promotions, pricing tests and launches, and measuring the sales lift
- 7+ years of progressive retail sales leadership, including chain-wide or multi-region sales strategy ownership
- 3+ years carrying a revenue number or P&L line with demonstrated delivery against it
- Proven record designing sales programs and scaling them across a multi-unit fleet with measurable revenue results
- Strong financial fluency, including budgeting, forecasting, opportunity sizing and margin impact
Compensation
- $120k-$140k
Benefits
- Bonus eligible
- Paid leave for new parents to support work/life balance and family bonding
- Excellent medical/dental and vision coverage - EPO, PPO and HSA
- 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution (because you will retire someday)
- Flexible benefits - choose what you like, ignore the rest
- On-site employee gym for all levels/fitness needs
Company info
- We're looking for a commercially sharp leader who brings a clear point of view and a recommendation backed by evidence.
- Thanks to the passion and enthusiasm of this spectacular group, Lakeshore is more than a great place to work-it's a great experience to be part of.
Equal opportunity
- People are selected to become members of the Lakeshore family based on skill, merit and mind-boggling talent-not based on race, color, creed, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, marital status, domestic partnership status, military status, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, alienage, AIDS or AIDS-related complex status, genetic information, predisposition or carrier status, status as a victim of domestic violence, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- If things aren't equal, we all lose.
- Lakeshore is an E-Verify employer.
- We use E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.
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