Director of Sales, Manufacturing & Distribution Staffing
1223 W National Ave Milwaukee, WI 53204 US
Job Description
Sales Manager / Sales Director – Manufacturing & Distribution Staffing - Milwaukee, WI
3–5 years staffing industry or sales leadership experience preferred.
Minimal travel required outside regional market.
Are you a rising sales leader who loves building teams, developing junior talent, and driving growth?
Our client is a fast-growing staffing firm supporting manufacturing and distribution clients across the Midwest. With a $35M top-line business and ~25% year-over-year growth, they are known for their strong culture, long-tenured operational team, and an entrepreneurial President seeking a high-energy sales leader to scale the organization.
We’re hiring for a Sales Manager / Sales Director to build, develop, and lead a high-performing sales team while partnering directly with senior leadership to drive strategic growth and multi-market expansion.
What You Will Do:
- Build, train, and develop a junior sales team (1–2 years experience model), ultimately scaling to 10–15 reps
- Rebuild the sales function by replacing underperforming reps and implementing a process-driven structure
- Implement modern sales processes, activity standards, and consistent coaching frameworks
- Lead expansion into new Midwest markets: Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, Indianapolis
- Launch new service lines and support opportunities within MSP solutions
- Create and refine sales playbooks, cadences, and scalable sales systems
- Serve as the President’s strategic right hand, supporting growth strategy and execution
- Manage 90/180/360-day plans tied to productivity, pipeline development, and revenue outcomes
What We’re Looking For:
- High-energy, entrepreneurial leader who thrives in high-growth environments
- Proven ability to develop junior sales talent and create structured, repeatable processes
- Adaptable, proactive, and autonomous — someone who takes initiative and solves problems independently
- Strong soft skills, presence, and ability to inspire early-career talent
- Experience opening new markets or building new sales regions strongly preferred
- Capable of matching the pace, ambition, and hands-on style of a forward-thinking leadership team
Required Skills & Experience:
- 3–5+ years in staffing, sales leadership, or comparable high-growth environment
- Demonstrated success coaching or developing early-career sales reps
- Strong operational thinking: process creation, structure, accountability
- Must be Milwaukee-based or willing to relocate
What You Get:
- $100–120K base salary (target range) with strong incentive upside
- Potential equity (up to ~5%) for the right long-term leader
- Relocation package available
- Opportunity to build a complete sales organization from the ground up
- Direct partnership with an entrepreneurial senior leader driving aggressive growth
- High autonomy, flexibility, and ownership in shaping the sales function
- A clear advancement path to Head of Sales / Regional VP with multi-market responsibility
Job Number 7620
Additional Information
MeeDerby is an executive search firm uniquely dedicated to serving the staffing industry. For nearly three decades, we've helped thousands of executives, managers, senior sales and senior recruiters who have worked in staffing find their place in this robust industry. You spend your days helping people find the perfect job. Don’t you deserve a partner who can do the same for you? Leverage our hard-won connections to take the next step in your staffing career.
Meet Your Recruiter
Walter Shedd
Executive Recruiter
With over 16 years of experience in sales and recruiting management, Walter Shedd is a seasoned Executive Recruiter at MeeDerby, the leading source for executive search in the Staffing Industry. He has a proven track record of finding and placing qualified candidates for various staffing disciplines and verticals across the nation, leveraging his extensive network, subject matter expertise, and consultative approach.
Walter’s passion is to create lasting and mutually beneficial relationships between clients and candidates, and to help them achieve their growth and success goals. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the Staffing Industry, having worked across all corners of the industry, expanding on his roots in Commercial Staffing. He also has a unique background in visual storytelling, having interned with a photojournalist from TIME Magazine and covered major events such as the 2004 presidential election and the World Series. Walter’s focus at MeeDerby is to source and recruit top managers and executives for the Staffing Industry, with a special emphasis on his hometown of Chicago.
