The Senior Inside Sales Manager is responsible for leading Inside Sales Managers (ISMs) and/or partnering with Customer Service Managers (CSMs) to provide strategic direction and drive accountability across the Inside Sales staff. The Senior Inside Sales Manager will work collectively with branch leadership to drive standardization and identify training opportunities. This position will partner with the Inside Sales Manager to define and achieve sales and margin goals while driving Inside Sales Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Responsibilities:
- Lead ISMs and/or partner with CSMs to achieve branch sales and margin goals
- Drive and continuously improve Inside Sales KPIs to ensure customer satisfaction
- Work with ISMs and CSMs to balance workloads and headcount
- Plan headcount investment and training needed with feedback from ISMs and CSMs to proactively grow business
- Define processes to handle additional responsibilities assigned to sales
- Serve as coach and mentor to inside sales leadership
- Partner with Sales Manager to determine monthly/annual sales and gross profit plans
- Serve as point of escalation to ensure customer issues are resolved in a timely manner
- Work closely with Sales Manager, Director of Sales, and VP of Sales to plan, lead, and execute corporate strategic initiatives
- Engage with Inside Sales Manager to develop and nurture internal working relationships and ensure alignment of key strategies and tactics (sales, margin, opex, recruiting, business KPIs, etc.)
- Spearhead large projects to implement best practices involving branch and potential component stocking programs
Qualifications:
- High School Degree or Equivalent required; Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- 4 years required of previous inside sales management.
- 2 years of training and developing a sales force.
- Strong professional sales and consultative skills, ability to coach and mentor growing sales team.
- Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting and selling products or services, including marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, and sales techniques.
- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service, including customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Knowledge of business and management principles, including resource allocation, leadership and coordination of people and resources.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships.
- Ability to function effectively in cross-functional work environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical, math, and persuasion skills.
- Strong understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements.
- Strong background and track record in managing creative sales initiatives.
- 4 years inside sales management with preferred experience in distribution industry.
- 6 years of creating new or significantly advancing sales channels is preferred.
- Knowledge of wholesale distribution products and markets is preferred.
- Ability to travel 10% - 25%
In addition, Wesco offers a benefits program for eligible employees, which may include paid time off, medical, dental, and vision coverage, and retirement savings plans. Additional details about benefits are available here.
Skills Required
- High School Degree or Equivalent
- Bachelor's Degree
- 4 years previous inside sales management
- 2 years training and developing a sales force
- Experience planning headcount investment and training
- Strong professional sales and consultative skills; ability to coach and mentor
- Knowledge of sales and marketing strategy, product demonstration, and sales techniques
- Knowledge of customer service principles and customer needs assessment
- Knowledge of business and management principles including resource allocation and leadership
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical, math, and persuasion skills
- Understanding of customer and market dynamics
- Proven track record managing creative sales initiatives
- 4 years inside sales management with preferred experience in distribution industry
- 6 years creating new or significantly advancing sales channels
- Knowledge of wholesale distribution products and markets
- Ability to travel 10% - 25%
WESCO International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about WESCO International and has not been reviewed or approved by WESCO International.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests the 401(k) with company match is a relative strong point and is consistently part of the package. Retirement offerings are frequently cited as a solid element within the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests PTO policies are favorable, including self‑managed or generous banks in some roles along with paid holidays. Paid parental leave and related time‑off options add to the perceived strength of leave benefits.
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Flexible Benefits — Feedback suggests employees have meaningful choice through medical plan options with HSA/FSA alongside ancillary programs like EAP, discounts, and supplemental coverages. The breadth of selectable add‑ons supports tailoring benefits to individual needs.
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What We Do
At Wesco, we believe life should run smoothly. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on. Harnessing 100 years of ingenuity and expertise, we increase profitability, improve productivity and mitigate risk for approximately 150,000 customers worldwide. With nearly 1.5 million products and locations in more than 50 countries, Wesco is your partner in progress. Our company’s greatest asset is our people. From our corporate and field offices to our distribution sites, Wesco employs over 20,000 professionals around the globe. We’re committed to fostering diversity and inclusion across our workforce by embracing the unique perspectives, authenticity, and individuality our team members contribute to the company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Wesco is a publicly traded (NYSE: WCC) FORTUNE 500® company with 2022 net sales of $21.4 billion.






