District Manager

* **Comprehensive Family Benefits:** Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.* **Support for Parents:** We offer a 14-week paid child birth benefit to support growing families.* **Future Security:** 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.* **Early Access:** Your benefits start after just 30 days of employmentAs a **District Manager** for Airgas, you will be a **pioneer** in creating a high-performance culture rooted in safety and excellence. We are looking for a **supportive mentor** who can **empower** our sales teams to reach their full potential while **nurturing** a community of safety and reliability. Your role is to **advance** our market presence by **cultivating alignment** across branches, **optimizing** resources, and **facilitating** a seamless experience for both our associates and our customers.* **Empower, mentor, and support** the sales team to **advance** toward excellent safety standards and performance milestones.* Provide **diligent P&L stewardship** for the assigned branches and territory, ensuring long-term fiscal health.* **Advocate** for safety measures through interactive meetings and by **ensuring alignment** with all safety protocols.* **Optimize profit margins** by implementing strategic plans from the Region and Area, ensuring operating expenses align with **collective growth milestones** and exceptional customer service.* **Enhance and sustain** the selling skills and product expertise of the staff through continuous learning.* **Foster professional growth** and provide **proactive guidance** on company policies and customer service excellence.* **Partner with** the Branch Manager in the hiring, training, and holistic management of employees.* **Support** outside sales representatives by preparing insightful sales data and providing thoughtful forecasts for leadership.* **Coordinate** paperwork, inventory, pricing, and profitability to ensure operational health.* **Facilitate** personnel matters and ensure facility upkeep to provide a welcoming and safe environment.**Cultivate** exceptional customer service and product knowledge, ensuring a **collaborative** approach to problem resolution.* **A Bachelor's degree** or equivalent professional experience (ideally 7+ years in a relevant field).* A **demonstrated history** of **advancing sustainable sales success** and profitable growth.* A **proven history** of increasing responsibility in a business-to-business sales-related or sales operations position. This includes prior experience **mentoring a team** and **stewardship of a P&L** (or comparable experience within the distribution industry involving gases and welding supplies).* **A proactive approach to leadership**, with a history of **supporting and mentoring teams** for at least 3 years.* **Strong communication skills**, both verbal and written, with a focus on **building alignment** and staying organized.* **Comfortable with Microsoft solutions**, particularly Excel and Word, and experienced in data entry and order extraction.* **Numerical proficiency** for practical business applications and analytical reporting.* **Resilience and adaptability** to work independently and maintain focus in a dynamic environment.* **The ability to foster understanding** while interacting with diverse teams and personalities.* **Deeply comfortable** with business and accounting concepts including, but not limited to, Return on Investment (ROI), Profit & Loss (P&L) statements, balance sheets, interest and leasing calculations, and margin responsibilities* **Physical capability** to lift 25-75 lbs. as needed to support operations.* **A valid driver's license** and an insured personal vehicle.* **Comfortable working** in a drug-free environment.* **Flexibility** to adjust your schedule to meet the needs of our customers and the management team.* A history of **advancing sales growth** and achieving consistent year-over-year progress.* Experience in the Industrial Gas industry and/or welding is a **valuable contribution**.* **Experience in sales team management** with a focus on sustainable growth.* **Public speaking capabilities** to represent the brand with confidence.* **A natural ability to prioritize and multitask** effectively.* **SAP** experience preferred.Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products; and a leading U.S. supplier of ammonia products and process chemicals. Through the passion and diversity of its 18,000 associates, Airgas fosters a culture of safety, customer success, sustainability and innovation. Airgas associates are empowered to share ideas, take initiative and make decisions.Airgas is a subsidiary of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for industry and healthcare. Present in 60 countries with approximately 66,500 employees, Air Liquide serves more than 4 million customers and patients.Join us for a stimulating experience: At Airgas, you matter and so does the work you do. As a member of our team, you play an important role in the success of your team, making sure our products are created sustainably and delivered safely and efficiently. In turn, you'll find a welcoming workplace where you're valued for who you are and where you can fill your potential while growing a fulfilling career - whatever path you choose.We want to ensure a safe experience for everyone interested in joining Airgas. Please be aware of fraudulent job offers that are circulating, falsely using the Airgas name and brand. These scams often involve individuals or organizations impersonating Airgas recruiters or employees through fake emails, social media, and websites. They may attempt to request personal information or, critically, ask for payment for various reasons like application fees, training, or visa processing. **Please be advised that Airgas and our authorized recruitment partners will never ask you for money at any stage of the recruitment process.**You may verify job postings through our official global at any time. If you receive a suspicious job offer or request for payment/sensitive data, we strongly advise that you do not respond or click on any links. We encourage you to verify the source carefully and only interact through our official channels. We appreciate your interest in Airgas and are committed to combating these fraudulent activities to protect job seekers. 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