Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
Novanta is the world’s leading developer of robotic end of arm technologies. Novanta end-effectors enhance productivity and flexibility of robotic and automated solutions across a wide spectrum of industries through capabilities such as automatic tool changing, force-torque sensing, material removal, and more. Since 1989, our commitment to engineering excellence, superior quality, and customer-focused support drives us to innovate and continuously improve the most reliable automated solutions available.
Grow customer relationships, win new business, and lead a sales team toward ambitious growth goals. As Sales Manager at Novanta, you’ll combine direct selling with responsibility for the General Industry Sales Team—contributing personally to bookings while coaching others to deliver strong results.
You’ll pursue new opportunities, expand existing accounts, and turn commercial strategy into focused action. Success in this role requires effective team leadership, efficient workflows, and the ability to influence and collaborate across functions.
Lead the team. Build the business.
Own individual and team results. Serve as a selling manager with direct revenue responsibility while leading the General Industry Sales Team toward its growth objectives.
Coach for consistent performance. Develop sales professionals, set clear expectations, empower individuals, and build accountability for achieving revenue targets.
Create and expand opportunities. Identify and pursue new business, manage complex sales opportunities, and grow existing key accounts through direct customer engagement.
Build relationships that support growth. Develop strong connections with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
Turn sales data into action. Monitor performance metrics to identify trends, recognize risks, and prioritize improvements.
Coordinate execution across functions. Allocate resources, improve workflows, and work with internal teams to execute sales strategies and expand market presence.
Bring new products to market. Support new product introduction (NPI) commercialization and achieve NPI sales targets.
Build an engaged, inclusive team. Foster strong performance and retention through clear direction, individual empowerment, and shared accountability.
Keep customer needs at the center. Apply voice of the customer (VOC), market insights, and business acumen to deliver differentiated solutions and anticipate emerging trends.
Maintain momentum through change. Use strong prioritization, data-driven decisions, and disciplined execution to deliver results in complex, fast-changing environments.
What you’ll bring
Proven field sales leadership experience managing and coaching geographically dispersed teams to meet and exceed revenue, growth, and margin targets.
A strong B2B sales and account management background, including new business development, key account expansion, and complex opportunity management.
A bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced certifications or an MBA are a plus.
Demonstrated ability to execute sales strategy through data-driven forecasting, pipeline management, and disciplined use of CRM tools and sales metrics. Salesforce experience is a plus.
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