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An experienced and results-oriented Industrial Inkjet Sales & Business Development Director to lead revenue growth for Konica Minolta's production inkjet portfolio across the Northwest. Reporting directly to the Area Vice President of Sales, Western Region, this role owns territory strategy, pipeline development, forecast accuracy, strategic account engagement, and the advancement and closure of complex capital-equipment opportunities. The position will also work in functional alignment with the Senior Director, Industrial Print Strategy to provide field insight and support selected national inkjet initiatives that directly improve sales execution.

This leader will work closely with KM Direct sales teams, Dealer Partners, marketing, service, operations, and category leadership to identify qualified prospects, build compelling business cases, coordinate demonstrations and proof-of-concept activity, overcome competitive barriers, and consistently achieve revenue and profitability objectives.

Territory Sales Leadership & Revenue Ownership

• Develop and execute a comprehensive Northwest territory plan for production inkjet, with primary focus on Oregon, Washington, Northern California, and other assigned markets.
• Own regional revenue, gross-profit, pipeline-coverage, market-development, and forecast objectives for the industrial inkjet portfolio.
• Establish target-account priorities and coordinate direct and dealer sales activity to increase prospecting, executive engagement, and opportunity creation.

Pipeline Development & Forecast Management

• Build and maintain a healthy 120-180 day pipeline with sufficient coverage, defined next steps, accurate close dates, and clear customer decision criteria.
• Conduct regular opportunity reviews with regional sales leadership and field teams; identify velocity gaps, stalled deals, competitive threats, and corrective actions.
• Maintain disciplined Salesforce hygiene and provide accurate weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts, including risks, upside, and required executive support.

Strategic Account & Opportunity Leadership

• Lead discovery and account strategy for high-value opportunities, engaging owners, C-suite executives, operations leaders, and financial decision-makers.
• Develop customer-specific value propositions and financial justification using ROI, total cost of ownership, productivity, labor, waste reduction, application expansion, and margin improvement.
• Coordinate demonstrations, application testing, site visits, references, proposals, negotiations, and internal resources to advance opportunities through close.

Dealer & Direct Sales Development

• Develop productive working relationships with KM Direct branches and Dealer Partners, creating joint account plans, prospecting programs, and field activity that generate incremental pipeline.
• Coach sales representatives on qualification, competitive positioning, executive conversations, application discovery, and capital-equipment selling methodology.
• Support customer seminars, regional events, webinars, and targeted campaigns designed to create meetings, demonstrations, and qualified opportunities.

Customer Applications & Solution Development

• Work directly with prospects and customers to understand production workflows, cost structures, substrates, finishing requirements, application needs, and growth objectives.
• Provide expertise and input into application design, file testing, material preparation, sample production, demonstrations, and proof-of-concept execution.

Competitive Strategy & Deal Execution

• Maintain current knowledge of competitive production inkjet, offset, toner, and adjacent technologies, including commercial positioning, strengths, limitations, and market activity.
• Create and execute competitive displacement strategies for priority opportunities, including objection handling, differentiation, references, and executive alignment.

Field Insight & Inkjet Strategy Support

• Provide category leadership with structured voice-of-customer feedback, competitive intelligence, lost-deal insight, application trends, and market requirements from the Northwest territory.
• Support selected national sales-enablement, case-study, webinar, and go-to-market initiatives.

• 8+ years of experience within graphic arts, commercial / inkjet production print, industrial printing technology, converting, manufacturing, or a related field.
• 5+ years of successful sales or business-development experience involving production print or industrial capital equipment, including direct experience with production inkjet or high-speed digital printing solutions.
• Proven record of achieving sales objectives, developing new business, accurately forecasting, advancing complex opportunities, and managing to bottom-line profitability; commercial-print experience required, with packaging, label, converting, or specialty applications preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred.

• Demonstrated success selling complex, high-value production inkjet print or industrial capital equipment and consistently achieving revenue objectives.
• Deep expertise in industrial inkjet, production print, or adjacent high-volume digital print technologies, applications, and customer workflows.
• Strong prospecting, discovery, negotiation, executive-selling, account-planning, and opportunity-management capabilities.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including ROI modeling, total cost of ownership, margin analysis, and capital-investment justification.
• Excellent leadership, coaching, interpersonal, communication, presentation, and organizational skills, with a proven ability to influence in a matrixed organization.

Physical & Travel Requirements:

• Ability to travel domestically up to 75% of the time, including overnight stays; position based in Oregon or Washington State.
• Ability to sit, stand, and operate a computer and telephone for extended periods.
• Capacity to lift up to 25 lbs. as needed.
• Must be able to participate in and present at trade shows, customer sites, and industry events.

This posting reflects an existing vacancy that we are actively recruiting for.

Cette annonce correspond à un poste actuellement vacant pour lequel nous recrutons activement.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta Business Solutions' (Konica Minolta) journey started more than 150 years ago, with a vision to see and do things differently. The company partners with clients to Give Shape to Ideas by supporting their digital transformation through its expansive Intelligent Connected Workplace portfolio. Its business technology offerings include IT Services, intelligent information management, video security solutions and managed print services, as well as office technology and industrial and commercial print solutions. 2025 marks Konica Minolta’s 20th anniversary in production print, for which it celebrates "20 Years of Excellence, Innovation and Impact,” and continues to lead the way in digital commercial printing. This year also commemorates 20 years of Konica Minolta’s bizhub brand. Over the past two decades, the bizhub series has revolutionized office technology and redefined how businesses operate. It has continuously evolved to meet the needs of modern workplaces, fueled by advances in technology and a commitment to innovation. Konica Minolta is proud to be ranked on the Forbes 2025 America's Best Large Employers list, included on CRN’s MSP 500 list numerous times; recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for eighteen consecutive years and presented with Keypoint Intelligence’s BLI 2025 and 2021 A3 Line of The Year and BLI 2021-2023 Most Color Consistent A3 Brand Awards for its bizhub One i-Series. For more information, please visit Konica Minolta online and follow it on Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Konica Minolta operates on a North American Shared Services model, which aligns cross-border priorities and enhances delivery to its field organization. This combines service functions in the U.S. and Canada, ultimately providing more resources to support areas such as sales administration, logistics and supply chain, marketing, product planning, finance, IT, HR and legal.

Au sujet de Konica Minolta

Solutions d’affaires Konica Minolta (Konica Minolta) a entamé son parcours il y a plus de 150 ans, avec la volonté de voir et de faire les choses autrement. Elle fait équipe avec ses clients pour donner forme à leurs idées en appuyant leur transformation numérique grâce à un riche portefeuille de solutions pour un milieu de travail connecté et futé. Parmi ses technologies d’affaires, on retrouve des services de TI, la gestion intelligente de l’information, des solutions de sécurité vidéo et des services d’impression gérés ainsi que des technologies de bureau et des solutions d’impression industrielle et commerciale. L’année 2025 marque le 20e anniversaire de l’entrée de Konica Minolta dans le marché de l’impression de production; l’entreprise souligne « 20 années d’excellence, d’innovation et de résultats » tout en continuant d’être une figure de proue dans l’impression numérique commerciale. C’est aussi l’année où la marque bizhub de Konica Minolta célèbre ses 20 ans, au cours desquels la gamme a révolutionné la technologie de bureau, redéfini les processus des entreprises, et évolué continuellement pour répondre aux besoins des milieux de travail modernes, mue par les avancées technologiques et la volonté d’innover. Konica Minolta est fière de faire partie du palmarès 2025 des meilleurs grands employeurs d’Amérique de Forbes, d’avoir figuré à plusieurs reprises au palmarès CRN des 500 fournisseurs de services gérés, d’avoir été nommée la marque numéro un en matière de fidélité des clients sur le marché des appareils de bureau multifonctions par Brand Keys pendant 18 années consécutives, et de s’être vue décerner les prix BLI « A3 Line of the Year » 2021 et 2025 et « Most Colour Consistent A3 Brand » 2021-2023 de Keypoint Intelligence pour sa gamme bizhub One i-Series. Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur le site de Konica Minolta et suivez l’entreprise sur Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn et Twitter.

Konica Minolta fonctionne selon un modèle de services partagés nord-américain qui permet d’harmoniser les priorités transfrontalières et d’améliorer la prestation de services aux organisations opérationnelles. Le modèle combine des fonctions de service américaine et canadienne afin d’offrir davantage de ressources aux services de soutien comme l’administration des ventes, la logistique et la chaîne d’approvisionnement, le marketing, la planification des produits, la finance, les TI, les RH et les services juridiques.

Salary Disclaimer

Konica Minolta is committed to transparent and equitable compensation practices. Our pay structure is designed to support employee growth, allowing individuals to progress through the salary range as they advance in their role. Actual base pay offered will vary based on a candidate’s skills, experience, job‑related knowledge, geographic location, and specific business needs.

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Konica Minolta s'engage en faveur de pratiques de rémunération transparentes et équitables. Notre structure salariale est conçue pour soutenir la croissance des employés, permettant aux individus de progresser dans la fourchette salariale au fur et à mesure de leur progression. Le salaire de base réel proposé variera en fonction des compétences, de l'expérience, des connaissances liées au poste, de la localisation géographique et des besoins spécifiques de l'entreprise du candidat.

AI Disclosure

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd., or its authorized third-party contractors, may employ Artificial Intelligence technologies to support elements of the recruitment process. Notwithstanding this, Applications are reviewed by our recruitment team, who always make the final hiring decision.

Mention d'utilisation de l'IA

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (Canada) Ltd., ou ses prestataires tiers autorisés, peuvent utiliser des technologies d'intelligence artificielle pour soutenir certains aspects du processus de recrutement. Néanmoins, les candidatures sont examinées par notre équipe de recrutement, qui prend toujours la décision finale d'embauche.

Konica Minolta is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital status or partnership status, genetic information, veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

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Konica Minolta est un employeur souscrivant au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi et de l’action positive. Nous considérons tous les candidats qualifiés pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de couleur, de religion, de croyance, d'origine nationale, de sexe, de grossesse, d'âge, d'orientation sexuelle, de statut de personne transgenre, d'identité de genre, de handicap, d'aliénation ou de citoyenneté, d'état civil ou de partenariat, d'informations génétiques, de statut de vétéran ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par les lois applicables

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