Sales Director - Energy
Hitachi
Remote · USFull-timePosted 2 days agoStill listed today
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JR Automation, a Hitachi Group Company, is seeking a remote Sales Director – Energy to lead regional sales managers and drive sales strategy and results. The role includes setting sales plans and goals, building customer relationships, communicating value propositions, forecasting revenue, and monitoring market trends. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required; an MBA and automation-industry experience are preferred.
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Location: Remote - Michigan, United States Job ID: R0141903 Date Posted: 2026-08-25 Company Name: J.R. AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Profession (Job Category): Sales, Marketing & Product Management Job Schedule: Full time Remote: Yes Job Description: The Opportunity:
JR Automation, a Hitachi Group Company, is driven to deliver customer success worldwide. We provide intelligent automated manufacturing and distribution technology solutions that transform how the world's leading manufacturers make and distribute products. Our strength is our people and we’re always looking to strengthen our team across the globe. Join us as a Sales Director – Energy.
Location Type: The position is remote.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
- Supervises regional sales managers.
- Determines annual unit and gross-profit plans by implementing marketing strategies, analyzing trends and results.
- Develop and execute strategic plans to achieve sales targets.
- Create and communicate sales goals and ensure C-level executives are informed on the progress of those goals.
- Build and maintain long-lasting, strong relationships with customers while partnering with them to better understand their business objectives and needs.
- Understand industry-specific trends and landscapes.
- Effectively communicate value propositions through presentations and proposals.
- Report on forces that shift strategic directions of accounts and tactical budgets.
- Establishes sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions and territories and projecting expected sales volumes and profit for existing and new products.
- Implements JR Automation sales programs by developing field sales action plans.
- Maintains sales volume by tracking changing trends, economic indicators, competitors, and supply and demand.
- Completes sales operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees and following up on work results.
- Maintains staff job results by counseling and disciplining employees.
- Plans, monitors, and appraises job results.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results.
Note: This list of responsibilities is inclusive; however, it is intended to be a guideline for activities.
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, calculated as two (2) years of relevant work experience for each year of academic study.
- MBA preferred.
- Current or prior JR Automation experience, or experience in the automation industry is strongly preferred.
Disclaimer: JR Automation requires candidates to successfully complete a 10-panel drug screen, physical examination, and background check.
Company Overview: At JR Automation, A Hitachi Group Company, we discover potential, reimagine limits, and advance industry. When faced with a problem, we find a solution. Together, we push what’s possible to automate for tomorrow. Join our team of 2,000+ at one of our 20+ facilities around the world and be a part of the most experienced team of advanced automation integrators. Fueled by Possible.
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)-Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job at JR Automation, please send the nature of request and contact information to [email protected]. Queries other than accommodation requests will not be responded to.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,383 open Sales Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$155–235K/yr965 salary ranges
- US median$29–39/hr31 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 26 open Sales Director jobs in Michigan and 1,383 across the US. 18% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Sales Director postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (1,066 postings).
- Education
- 360 of the 1,383 open Sales Director jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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