Are you looking for a NEW Sales Manager Position?
Do you want to work for the industry leader in the fastest-growing segment of our economy?
If you answered yes to the above questions, then keep reading.
Essential Engine/Five Star Professional is a nationally recognized marketing services organization partnering with outstanding professionals in Real Estate, Mortgage, Insurance, and Wealth Management across the United States. For more than 25 years, we have set the standard for industry recognition, identifying and elevating high-caliber professionals through a proprietary award program unmatched in scope and credibility.
As we continue to scale, we are seeking a high-performing Sales Leader to help drive revenue growth, strengthen team performance, and expand our impact within the industries we serve.
Are you an established sales manager looking for your next mission? Do you enjoy helping salespeople reach their fullest potential?
We are looking for a sales leader who wants to make a difference in others’ careers and motivate them to sell more and improve their skills.
Are you tired of working for an organization that doesn’t move the needle in its customers’ business and lives? Is it long on promise but short on delivery? Whose leads dry up fast, or are not the appropriate prospects for your offer?
Look no further, you are in the right place.
Essential Engine is looking for a Sales Manager
Position: Sales Manager: Advertising, Marketing, and Publishing or Membership Sales
Industry: Marketing Industry, Publishing, PR, Business-to-Business Sales
Location: Remote (U.S.-based)
Comp: Base + Override
Keep reading to learn why …This Is NOT Your Average Sales Job.
We exist to help professionals stand out in crowded, competitive markets. When Five Star Professional was founded, our mission was clear: elevate top performers and help them build trust and authority in industries saturated with noise. Over time, we recognized something deeper, authority alone does not create trust. Credibility must be paired with authenticity. That insight led to the launch of Essential Engine.
Today, Five Star Professional / Essential Engine delivers integrated marketing solutions designed to strengthen both credibility and connection. We help our clients establish recognized authority in their market while building authentic, meaningful relationships with their audience. Through our comprehensive suite of services, clients gain the strategic tools to activate their brand, captivate their audience, cultivate lasting relationships, and ultimately elevate their business.
Five Star Professional/Essential Engine has five core values as the bedrock of our company culture. These values are Agile, Trustworthy, Client-Focused, Dedicated, and Team Player. To have a place at Essential Engine, each employee must demonstrate these core values in their everyday work and interactions with clients and fellow employees.
If you’re the type of saleleader who…
- Understands a one-call close sales process and can teach others how to use this skill.
- Thrives in working with sales professionals and leveling up their skills.
- Understands the framework of consultative sales in short sales cycles and one-call-close environments
- Using CRM as a strategic tool to drive decisions and sales.
- Loves building sales teams and helping them achieve quota
- Can coach, teach, reinforce, and replicate a proven sales process.
- Communicates like a pro with your team, peers, and leadership
…then stop scrolling and apply now.
Your Role:
- Connect, communicate, and lead your team, conduct call reviews and coaching sessions that drive performance, coach up high performers, and create action and coaching plans to improve low performers
- Drive sales through your team’s production.
- Communicate with your team, obtain client feedback, and share with leadership and marketing; gather industry intelligence; learn from the objections and the team; and clearly communicate this to leadership and fulfillment teams.
- Must be knowledgeable in marketing services, publishing, and PR, and be able to help salespeople see the possibilities and benefits of our services to help our clients use them to grow their business and practice
- Share sales tips and skills, industry trends, and insights weekly to influence sales and drive conversions.
- Report daily on pipeline, KPIs, and wins. This is a performance-driven environment.
The Must-Haves:
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, marketing, or related preferred
- 2+ years in marketing B2B sales or consultative sales
- Past experience selling marketing services, PR
- Proven closer and quota achiever (show us the scoreboard)
- Strong communicator—verbal and written
- Self-motivated, coachable, gritty
- CRM savvy (we’ll know if you’re faking it)
- Open to following our playbook, following our system, and maximizing it to win more deals
The Perks:
- Salary plus overrides from the team.
- Work with a team obsessed with results
- Learn directly from seasoned sales leaders (we walk the talk)
- Access to proven playbooks, scripts, and a high-converting funnel, start every day with a full day of appointments on your calendar.
- Mission-driven culture—every sale changes lives
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- HSA/FSA
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Paid Company Holidays, PTO, and volunteer time off
- OTE Forecasted $110,000+