32 Sales ManagerInterview Questions
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What have you personally done to develop your management skills?
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How did you develop your best-selling techniques?
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What is your greatest weakness? What are you doing to improve it?
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How do you evaluate success among your team members?
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What's your ideal company to work for?
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- "One where I interact with a new people, I'm apart of a team and I get to travel."
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What was the most effective motivational speech you have given to a sales team?
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When have you had to lead a situation by example? How were the results?
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Tell me about a difficult rejection you had. How did you handle it and how did you bounce back?
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What was your most significant professional accomplishment?
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How would you like your sales team to generate leads?
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What's the ideal relationship between sales and marketing?
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What have you found to be the most important skills in negotiating and succeeding in sales?
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Your worst performing sales executive has a personal crisis and needs significant time off, how would you support them?
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- "Empathyse, follow company procedure, full hand over of client matters."
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What's the ideal relationship between sales & marketing?
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Should sales reps be paid commission?
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Would you consider yourself a natural born leader who prefers to take charge and control of a situation?
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How do you handle stressful situations?
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- "How do you cope with stressful situation has sales executive in automotive industry."
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What do you know about our company and the products/services we sell?
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How do you handle a sales person who is not meeting their target sales?
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Describe some success stories and some difficulties. How did you handle the difficulties?
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Why did you choose a career in sales? When did you know this is something you could do for the rest of your career?
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- "I enjoy interacting with people and helping them decide on products and services."
- "I want to utilize the leadership, customer service, and sales skills I have to make an impact on the company."
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How do you manage egos within your sales team?
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- "Keep every focused on the goal and the fact it takes all of us to achieve it."
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Tell me about your most successful sales team.
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- "We excelled in are goals, we resolved problems as a group and made sure we bonded as a group."
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Why are you ready for a sales manager position?
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- "I'm a hard worker, a team player, a leader."
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What type of bonuses/reward programs, do you find most effective?
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Why did you choose to pursue a career as a sales manager?
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How do you respond to feedback?
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How many employees have you been responsible for managing at one time?
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Do you work well under pressure?
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If I were to interview the people who have reported to you in the past, how would they describe your management style?
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How do you generate leads? What programs and initiatives do you incorporate?
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What goals do you like to set for yourself and your sales team?