Regional Sales Manager-Midwest Best Sales Jobs 2025
Regional Sales Manager – Midwest (Industrial/Technical Sales)
- Location: Chicago, IL (Remote/Field-Based with Regional Travel)
- Territory: Midwest/Central U.S.
- Industry: Industrial Manufacturing | Engineered Materials | High-Performance Systems
- Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
- Contact: Katie Meon | Job Ref: JN-102025-6855560
Become a part of a Top Innovator in High-Performance Materials
Are you a technically oriented, entrepreneurial sales professional eager to take on a high-impact position with a world-renowned innovator in cutting-edge industrial solutions?
Our customer is a U.S.-based, privately owned industrial manufacturing company that specializes in high-strength synthetic rope and wire-rope systems for some of the world’s most extreme environments. Founded in the 1980s with a history of consistent growth, the firm today operates eight manufacturing facilities and cooperates with a global distributor network to reach 80+ countries.
This is your chance to be an integral part of growing a rapidly changing commercial unit, serving as a cutting-edge lifting and rigging technologies representative for application in all infrastructure, utility, construction, manufacturing, marine, and industrial markets.
Supported by a cash-rich ownership group and leveraging a recent strategic consolidation of a number of well-respected legacy brands, this manufacturer is heavily investing in its regional leadership and sales organization. If you excel in a solutions-oriented, consultative sales culture and enjoy having an impact on regional strategy, this may be your next career move.
About the Company
The firm is universally known as a leader in the development of synthetic rope technology, providing stronger, lighter, and safer ropes compared to conventional rigging and lifting methods. With roots in engineering, materials science, and field application experience, the company’s products are trusted in mission-critical initiatives, ranging from renewable energy facilities and power transmission lines to heavy construction, shipping, and critical infrastructure construction.
Over the past decade, the company has consistently outpaced industry growth through innovation, operational investment, and a customer-first mindset. A recent brand unification effort has strengthened its commercial identity and improved internal alignment, setting the stage for rapid sales growth and expanded market presence in North America.
Position Overview: Regional Sales Manager – Midwest
Your role as a Regional Sales Manager will involve generating growth and establishing relationships in the Midwest/Central U.S. territory with a technical sales and solution-sold focus on synthetic rope and wire-rope systems to industrial end users, OEMs, contractors, and distributors.
This is an individual contributor, field-based role involving high autonomy, strategic mind, and hands-on in developing sales. You will work closely with internal product and engineering teams to drive highly personalized, high-value solutions to technically challenging customers.
Key Responsibilities
Sales Strategy & Market Development
Establish and implement a territory-specific sales strategy in line with wider commercial targets and market direction.
Identify, target, and cultivate new business opportunities across industrial and infrastructure industries.
Establish a sustainable pipeline through cold calling, warm leads, networking, referrals, and market visibility campaigns.
Account Management & Customer Success
Grow and maintain relationships with current accounts, distributors, OEMs, and contractors.
Be a customer advisor—providing insight, product knowledge, and proactive support.
Support clients through complicated buying cycles, aiding them with technical specs and product advise.
Technical Collaboration & Solution Selling
Collaborate closely with engineering, production, and application support groups to create tailored solutions for every client’s operating environment.
Make successful technical sales presentations and on-site visits, communicating both performance and value.
Solve problems in actual applications and align internal capabilities to provide the solution.
Reporting, Forecasting & CRM Management
Have clear visibility into pipelines, accurate forecasting, and customer files through CRM applications.
Report territory performance, market trends, competitive activity, and customer feedback regularly.
Brand Representation
Represent the company at trade shows, industry events, distributor meetings, and field demonstrations regularly.
Be a regional brand ambassador, espousing innovation, safety, and technical leadership.
Who You Are: The Ideal Candidate
We are seeking a highly motivated, self-starter, and strategic sales professional with a strong interest in industrial solutions and customer success. The ideal candidate will possess a successful sales history in technical or consultative sales, business development instincts, and the people skills to establish long-term relationships in a highly technical and safety-conscious environment.
Key Qualifications:Midwest Best Sales Jobs 2025
Experience:
Minimum 5 years of technical sales experience in markets like lifting, rigging, engineered materials, synthetic ropes, industrial components, or capital equipment.
- Sales Skillset:
Proven performance in both new business acquisition and key account management. You’re skilled at identifying pain points with customers and suggesting customized technical solutions. - Industry Knowledge:
Experience selling into markets like construction, utilities, energy, marine, infrastructure, or manufacturing is highly desirable. - Technical Aptitude:
An engineering, materials science, or industrial applications background is desirable but not necessary. A capacity to comprehend and articulate technical value propositions is critical. - Independence & Drive:
You are independent and can organize your own pipeline, time, and priorities as a team player in a larger commercial team. - Soft Skills:
Top-notch communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. You feel at home on a construction site as in a boardroom. - Ambition:
You are ambitious, with goals to develop into a sales leadership or larger commercial management position down the line.
Why Join?
This is not merely a sales career opportunity—this is a special chance to be part of a values-oriented, high-growth company where you can leave a mark and build your career. If you’re already a sales professional who wants to take your level of influence to the next level, or you’re an established mid-career individual looking for more entrepreneurial vibes, this position has the ideal combination of independence, guidance, and career advancement.
What’s In It For You:
Compensation:
Competitive base pay plus a performance-driven incentive plan formulated to reward individual achievement and regional performance.
Career Development:
Be a part of a rebuilding, high-performing sales organization with mentorship, leadership growth, and well-defined channels for career advancement.
Culture:
An encouragement-based, team-oriented, and entrepreneurial work environment where innovation is encouraged and initiative is rewarded.
Flexibility:
Freedom to create and implement your territory strategy within an established and experienced global brand.
Sell a broad portfolio of cutting-edge products with cross-industry applications, backed by robust technical and marketing capabilities.
Benefits:
A full range of benefits including health, dental, vision, 401(k), and professional development assistance.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Both our client and Michael Page International (MPI) are dedicated to creating a diverse, inclusive work environment. We invite applications from all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status.
We particularly invite applications from minorities, women, people with disabilities, veterans, and those from historically underrepresented groups in industrial sales opportunities.
Ready to Join?
If you’re a high-level sales pro with experience in technical or industrial products—and you like the idea of building a territory, collaborating with engineers, and being a part of a booming business—we invite you to apply today.
