Sales Manager

Posted 17 Days Ago
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Kansas City, MO, USA
In-Office
Mid level
Music • Retail
The Role
Leads and coaches a team of Gear Advisors to achieve sales, margin, conversion, productivity, and customer experience goals. Analyzes performance data, establishes improvement plans, reinforces consultative sales behaviors, manages attendance and policy adherence, supports promotions, and partners with training and sales leadership. Uses AI coaching tools and dashboards to improve team performance, productivity, and processes while developing a high-performing sales culture.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities

Role Overview

The Sales Manager,CSC  is a performance-driven people leader responsible for the day-to-day coaching, execution, and results of a team of Gear Advisors. This role focuses on delivering revenue and margin performance, improving conversion and productivity, and ensuring consistent execution of sales behaviors across inbound and outbound contact channels. The Sales Manager partners cross-functionally to support promotions, process adherence, and customer experience goals, while supporting training and development needs for frontline sellers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Own and be accountable for the team achieving sales dollars, margin dollars, and margin rate goals.
  • Apply strong business acumen to analyze sales, margin, productivity, conversion, and other performance data; identify trends and opportunities; and execute targeted strategies that increase revenue and profitability.
  • Lead, motivate, and coach Gear Advisors to perform at a high level across all inbound/outbound activities and contact channels.
  • Drive consistent execution of consultative sales best practices, including call productivity, discounting discipline, conversion, and customer experience standards.
  • Provide formal and informal coaching, talk-track reinforcement, and skill development to strengthen sales behaviors and outcomes.

Daily Operations & Performance Management

  • Deep understanding of daily performance and activity reporting to ensure behaviors align to expected sales results and service standards.
  • Measure individual Gear Advisor performance, establish goals, and execute action plans to improve results.
  • Accountable for team attendance, adherence and other policy administration.
  • Coordinate and monitor participation in site-based sales promotions and ensure frontline execution aligns to campaign expectations.
  • Deliver requested reports, performance updates, and relevant operational information accurately and on time.

Coaching, Training & Development

  • Master and leverage available AI based coaching tools as the primary source for coaching improvement
  • Identify development needs and partner with Training and Sales Leadership to support skill-building in product knowledge, systems, soft skills, and role-specific competencies.Conduct performance conversations and reviews, providing feedback and growth opportunities that improve capability and retention.Build a high-performance sales team culture focused on exceeding targets. Collaboration &

Continuous Improvement

  • Liaise with internal partners to resolve issues, coordinate execution of sales initiatives, and improve customer and associate experience.
  • Drives efficiency, productivity and performance improvements through use of available AI tools as well as looking for opportunities to innovate with new AI tools
  • Identify performance gaps and help implement improvements to processes, tools, and sales routines that increase productivity and results.
  • Support CSC sales leadership with insights from frontline performance and customer feedback.
Additional Responsibilities
  • Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.
Preferred QualificationsMINIMUM Requirements & Special ATTRIBUTES:
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent business experience preferred.
  • 3–5+ years of leadership experience in sales and/or customer service environments (contact center experience preferred).
  • Proven success coaching teams in a customer-focused, consultative sales environment.
  • Strong communication skills (verbal/written), strong organizational discipline, and attention to detail.
  • Comfortable using performance reporting and dashboards to manage KPIs and improve outcomes.
  • Passion for developing people and building a strong performance culture.

About Guitar Center

Guitar Center embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging our teammates to find their own individual sound. We strive to craft lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the almost indescribable happiness that comes from playing an instrument. We believe in putting our customers first, engaging with respect and integrity and fulfilling our mission with passion.

Why join us?

With a career at Guitar Center, you become part of the world's largest multichannel musical instrument retailer. Whether at our Stores, Contact Centers, Distribution Centers, or Support Center, Guitar Center employees have a common goal: to help people find their sound and fill the world with more music.

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Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience
  • 3-5+ years of leadership experience in sales and/or customer service environments
  • Contact center experience
  • Proven success coaching teams in a customer-focused, consultative sales environment
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong organizational discipline and attention to detail
  • Comfort using performance reporting and dashboards to manage KPIs and improve outcomes
  • Ability to develop people and build a strong performance culture

Guitar Center, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Guitar Center, Inc. and has not been reviewed or approved by Guitar Center, Inc..

  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — The package highlights free Talkspace access, tuition reimbursement, DailyPay, and a generous gear discount, with musician‑friendly programs such as Gig Leave. These lifestyle‑oriented offerings can meaningfully enhance the experience for employees who value music‑centric perks.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, and Gig Leave are explicitly promoted across postings. These options provide schedule flexibility for eligible associates to pursue performances and personal time.
  • Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is part of the standard offering. This adds a structured pathway for long‑term savings.

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The Company
HQ: Westlake Village, CA
10,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1964

What We Do

Guitar Center is an American musical instrument retailer chain that sells guitars, amplifiers, drums, keyboards, recording equipment, and accessories. It operates numerous locations across the United States and online.

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