As the Senior Manager - Sales Operations, you will be responsible for driving effectiveness, improving efficiencies, and expanding productivity of Wesco’s sales organization. You will be responsible for continuously improving and safeguarding our sales-centric culture, making Wesco the employer of choice for industry’s best sales professionals.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with sales leaders and multiple internal support resources to identify and address areas of improvement where sales bandwidth can be created while eliminating misalignment of departmental goals that hinder delivery of value to clients, sales, and margin expansion.
- Executing process with consistent dataset to ensure sales productivity and efficiency, including those designed from Salesbook application.
- Implements uniform process whereby sales leaders evaluate data and performance of sales professionals.
- Leverages standardized coaching process for sales leaders used across Group to increase productivity and drive high-performance culture.
- Leads and coordinates the Annual Salesbook planning process, ensuring thoughtful Sales and Margin targets are established for assigned accounts at the Salesperson level and roll up to exceed branch budgets.
- Defines sales operations territory productivity criteria, including sales and margins required for deployment of an outside sales professional. Defines recommended mix of company sales resources and OPEX allocated to deliver excellent customer experience, while expanding sales, margin and EBIT.
- Actively collaborates with suppliers and district leaders to create and deploy standardized quarterly review process.
- Drives creation of documented plans for sales and margin expansion for top customers. Plans should concisely define strategy to take share and drive customer value, including set measurable field expectations for customer engagement. Processes to be closed loop system, managed through Salesbook, driving accountability.
- Defines sales operations expectations for utilization and data quality within Salesbook.
- Drives consistent process using well defined datasets, including historical trends, backlog, and pipeline from Salesbook to establish branch, district, and region forecasts, including supplier volume rebates.
- Assists in coordinating strategy and activities of sales operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred.
- 8 years of relevant experience in a matrix environment.
- 7 years experience in managing against budgets, including sales and profit growth.
- 5+ years experience as a sales leader.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks at once.
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
- Sense of urgency and deadline driven.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrates attention to detail/organization skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communications.
- Ability to influence and lead change in a cross-functional team environment.
- Ability to travel up to 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
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
- 8 years relevant experience in a matrix environment
- 7 years managing against budgets, including sales and profit growth
- 5+ years experience as a sales leader
- Experience executing processes and reporting using Salesbook
- Ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Sense of urgency and deadline driven
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Attention to detail and organizational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to influence and lead change in cross-functional teams
- Ability to travel up to 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.







