Lorex Technology is looking for a highly motivated, energetic, and talented Sales Manager in the UK to join our global retail sales team. This individual will lead all business activities with existing and future retail partners. The successful candidate will have a strong ability to build relationships, possess a thorough knowledge of the CE retail channels, including supply chain requirements, with exceptional communication and presentation skills. Our ideal candidate is a high performer with analytical and organizational skills who thrives in a fast-paced, ever changing work environment.

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage business activities with existing retail partners
- Prospect, negotiate and appoint new retail & distribution partners in the UK
- Partner with current & future customers to build and launch the Lorex Brand in the UK
- History of meeting and/or exceeding revenue targets
- Become a product expert, developing a deep understanding of Lorex's product line and how we compare/compete with the competition
- Collaborate closely with cross functional partners (finance, legal, operations & marketing) at HQ
- Evaluate and report on market trends and competitive activity in UK
- Develop creative customer promotional strategies and execute with adequate lead time
- Develop product model transition planning and product life cycle management with each account

• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years’ experience in a retail sales role
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Confidence with presentation skills.
- Knowledge of account supply chain methodology including shipping, receiving, and packaging requirements.
- Strong organizational, communication, and collaboration skills with team members
- Solid understanding of retail landscape and consumer electronics industry
- Working knowledge of IoT Connected Home /Smartphone technology and Internet Remote Technology & connectivity, utilizing terms such as IP address, APPs, etc.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook, OneDrive for Business
- Prior experience with Costco and Amazon a plus

Key Competencies:

Connects:
• Builds trust and establishes rapport with diverse colleagues and customers by listening, understanding their needs, and following through on commitments.
• Works effectively with people who have different perspectives, backgrounds and abilities while encouraging constructive dialogue and being sensitive and receptive to diverse views and opinions.
• Builds mutually beneficial working relationships to foster a positive and inclusive culture and engages with internal and external customers and stakeholders representing a variety of interests.
Teamwork:
• Works with others to share expertise and achieve outcomes that benefit the organization.
• Demonstrates strong communication skills to others on the team through active listening, summarizing, facilitating and "bridge building".
Inspires:
• Creates a shared vision by soliciting and valuing diverse input obtained from each team member on the vision of their work and the team.
• Uses a broad range of communication strategies and methods to communicate vision with enthusiasm and clarity, and to inspire confidence and generate commitment.
• Helps the team to embrace different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds by modeling positive leadership behavior and encouraging full participation.
Self-Awareness:
• Proactively seeks and obtains ongoing feedback to help understand ones' own strengths and development areas to work more effectively with team/department managers/clients.
• Understands and is aware of one’s emotions and the impact these emotions may have on others.
• Reflects on feedback and lessons learned, and uses acquired knowledge in working with team members to achieve personal and professional growth.
Delivers:
• Ensures the timely delivery of programs, projects, and services, effectively adapting to tight deadlines and sudden changes in priorities to accomplish objectives.
• Plans for possibilities and contingencies, identifying opportunities and problems to ensure that best results are achieved.
• Recognizes and makes best use of the diverse skills, abilities, experiences of team members to achieve best outcomes.
Transforms:
• Takes initiative and sustained action to ensure the successful implementation of change by shifting strategic focus and embracing new ideas and building on past knowledge and success.
• Fosters a team environment where all are encouraged to think creatively and new and diverse ideas and approaches are heard, valued and considered for implementation.
• Seeks performance feedback and opportunities to invest time and effort to learn and expand knowledge to improve performance.
Accountability:
• Takes responsibility for clarifying the expectations of others.
• Acknowledges how personal decisions, actions and standards of performance influence work accomplishments.
• Accepts responsibility for work accomplishments.
• Recognizes changes required to achieve better results going forward.
Creativity/Innovation:
• Identifies and evaluates unique ways to improve the organization (cost reductions, use of resources, policies/procedures, products); generating useful new ideas, approaches or techniques.
Integrity:
• Adheres to ethical standards and integrates Lorex values, principles and standards into practices and business transactions.
• Creates honest, trusting and successful working relationships with others inside and outside the organization and conducts all affairs with personal and professional integrity.
• Promptly addresses issues about discrimination, harassment, and unfair treatment and does not allow personal assumptions, biases and/or complaints to impact any work related decisions in the team.