Regional Sales Manager Biological Wastewater Treatment for F&B in North America

This position is primarily responsible for growing, directing, managing, and coordinating Sales and Marketing activities in regions of the United States and Canada with a focus on the expanded Food & Beverage market by working with internal sales personnel and outside sales representatives, distributors, channel partners to ensure response to customer requests to build a balanced pipeline of projects for the overall business in the region, working closely with marketing personnel to develop sales and marketing tools, coordinating with engineering, procurement, manufacturing and accounting functions to provide effective customer service.

• Willingness for 50 - 75% travel in North America.
• Ability to work in a high-energy environment with minimal direction and supervision.
• High general mechanical aptitude, with creative ability to overcome both design and scheduling challenges.
• 5-year degree (biological wastewater, chemistry, environmental science preferred).
• 5+ years in a direct sales position selling wastewater related capital goods to the F&B industrial clients requiring biological wastewater treatment. Breweries, Distilleries, Wineries, Dairies, Meat and Cheese Processing, Chicken processing, etc. Other industry experience a plus
• Experience with anaerobic technologies, waste to energy, biogas upgrading a plus
• Experience working with Manufacturers’ Representative organizations.
• Self-disciplined and possess excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Team player committed to working with a team of highly motivated sales personnel.
• Must be an excellent negotiator and able to close on major sales.
• Additional language skills, especially in Spanish a plus.
• Job location is preferably in Houston, Texas
• Unlimited work permit for the US a must

Headworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our job openings provide opportunities to be part of a team that works directly in providing award-winning, innovative technologies to clean the world's second most precious resource - water; competitive reward structures; exposure to Best-in-Class technologies; on-going career development; one of the most diverse business environments in the United States as acknowledged by DiversityBusiness.Com; and one of Houston's Top Ten Places to Work as awarded by the Houston Business Journal.