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We're looking for motivated individuals to join our team at LKQ Corporation. With opportunities for growth, competitive benefits, and a supportive work environment, LKQ is the place to be. Apply now and take the first step toward a rewarding career!\nElitek Vehicle Services is seeking a Manager, Area Sales to drive market growth, customer acquisition, and account retention across assigned regions and Canada. This role is responsible for leading sales strategy execution while partnering closely with the remote operations team, leveraging remote diagnostic tools and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality service and solutions to customers.This leader will play a critical role in aligning sales, operations, and customer experience, ensuring seamless communication between field activity and remote support teams to maximize efficiency, service delivery, and revenue growth.\nCompensation:\n$95,000 - $115,000 depending on experince, plus bonus\nEssential Job Duties\nActively participate and manage new customer acquisitions and current account retention, including customer sales, quoting and resolving customer service issues.\nDevelop and implement marketing/sales plans and monitor results.\nManage all information needed to prepare proposals and/or agreements related to product sales.\nManage inside sales personnel and assist with customer service and product issues.\nMaintain relationships with key vendors to establish higher buying levels and to reinforce company commitment to increasing market share, leading to additional support from these vendors.\nBe familiar with Elitek Vehicle Services product literature and be able to convey product information and availability to customers.\nManage and support the continual improvement of our company’s quality improvement system.\nAnalyzes or resolves customer service issues or assists Inside Sales Coordinators in resolving customer service issues.\nSupervisory Responsibilities\nManage the work of others, including planning, assigning, scheduling and reviewing work, ensures quality standards. Responsible for hiring, terminating, training and developing, reviewing performance and administering corrective action for staff.\nMinimum Requirements \nEducation & Experience\nBachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.\n5+ years of experience with sales and management\nPreferred Requirements\nPrior automotive experience and knowledge of automotive parts.\nKnowledge/Skills/Abilities\nAbility to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs.\nFrequent use of Outlook, Word, Excel, graphics, etc. Ability to create, maintain and incorporate functions into Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and Powerpoint presentations to support business objectives.\nFrequently communicates complex information across departments and interacts with management. Can present, resolve and address delicate situations. 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