Sales Performance Manager

Job Description Job Description Sales Performance ManagerBuild the Relationships That Drive Our Next Stage of Growth Build the You know how to turn professional relationships into real business. You are comfortable walking into a room of designers, remodelers, builders, real estate professionals, or referral partners and creating trust quickly. You know the difference between a pleasant conversation and a commercially valuable relationship. You follow through. You use CRM systems well. You know how to build momentum over time. At Inspired Closets Chicago, you will build a high-value network of trade and referral partners throughout the Chicagoland market. You will represent the Inspired Closets brand in the market, open doors with the right partners, create productive showroom experiences, and deliver warm, well-positioned opportunities to our Sales Design Consultants. You will own the relationship-building process from initial outreach through partner activation while maintaining disciplined follow-up, clear CRM visibility, and accurate lead attribution. You will bring energy to the market, structure to the pipeline, and better opportunities to the sales team. What You Will OwnTrade Partner Development You will: identify and prioritize high-value trade and referral partners across the Chicagoland market build relationships with interior designers, remodelers, real estate professionals, professional organizers, select builders, and adjacent premium home-service providers re-engage inactive or underdeveloped partner relationships with meaningful future potential develop and maintain a disciplined rhythm of outreach, meetings, follow-up, and partner activation attend local industry events, expos, association meetings, and trade partner gatherings become a visible, trusted representative of Inspired Closets within the local design and home-improvement community Qualified Opportunity Creation You will: convert partner relationships into qualified appointments and project opportunities identify partners with active projects and near-term referral potential prepare clean, well-positioned handoffs to the appropriate Sales Design Consultant provide the design team with relevant background, partner expectations, and client context maintain ownership of the broader partner relationship after individual opportunities are handed off help improve the quality, readiness, and value of opportunities entering the sales process Showroom-Led Business Development You will: use the Inspired Closets showrooms as strategic tools for partner engagement, trust-building, and lead generation organize showroom tours, partner introductions, educational presentations, and small curated events help partners understand what their clients will experience when working with Inspired Closets create a consistent rhythm of experiences that produce follow-up conversations and qualified opportunities use the showroom to demonstrate design possibilities, product quality, professionalism, and the value of the complete client experience CRM, Pipeline, and Referral Tracking You will: maintain accurate, current records for all partner activity, meetings, next steps, referrals, and opportunities use the company CRM and Referral Rock to manage follow-up and preserve clean lead-source attribution track partner movement from initial outreach through active referral status provide leadership with reliable visibility into activity, pipeline, opportunity quality, and results use data to identify which partner categories, messages, and activities are producing the strongest return manage your pipeline with the same discipline you bring to building relationships Sales Team and Market Support You will: work closely with Sales Design Consultants to improve opportunity quality and handoff effectiveness build internal confidence by bringing the team better-prepared, better-fit prospects learn the company’s design process and software to communicate possibilities credibly with partners and review plans or blueprints when appropriate bring useful market intelligence back to leadership, including partner needs, buyer expectations, competitive activity, active projects, and emerging opportunities help the sales team improve results by creating stronger conditions before the sales conversation begins What You Bring You have: five or more years of successful business development, outside sales, referral-channel, partnership-development, or related growth experience a demonstrated record of building relationships that produced measurable revenue experience in home improvement, remodeling, in #J-18808-Ljbffr