Tuesday, November 12, 2013

ZEISS Sports Optics Seeks Marketing and Sales Executives

NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. - Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, the world's leading manufacturer of high performance sports optics for hunting and birding enthusiasts worldwide, intends to add two key marketing and sales management positions.

"We are having a record year in all of our business channels," said Todd Pearson, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "To meet the demanding needs of our retail customers and their customers, serious hunters and birding enthusiasts, we are seeking two key management positions to strengthen our team -- a brand manager and a key accounts sales manager. Both positions will assist us in meeting our aggressive growth goals."

According to Pearson, the brand manager position will be responsible for fueling enthusiasm for the ZEISS brand, differentiating the brand from competitors, and managing relationships with their strategic industry partners. The key accounts sales position will be responsible for engaging the company's key retail partners in all aspects of their business.

"These strategic positions will help us increase our responsiveness to our key partners and better enable us to anticipate their needs, now and into the future," Pearson added. "As we continue to experience solid growth, we want to deepen our bench with the qualified talent we need to accelerate our business plans."

For more details on these ZEISS job postings, contact ZeissJobs3@zeiss.com, or visit
http://jobview.monster.com/Brand-Manager-Job-Richmond-VA-127331757.aspx
http://jobview.monster.com/Regional-Sales-Director-Job-Richmond-VA-127331723.aspx

About Carl Zeiss Sports Optics

Carl Zeiss Sports Optics is a leading, international provider of premium sports optics and part of the Consumer Optics Group of Carl Zeiss. Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, LLC is responsible for sales, marketing and distribution of its state-of-the-art binoculars, spotting scopes, riflescopes and laser rangefinders throughout the United States and Canada. Carl Zeiss Sports Optics' North American headquarters is located in North Chesterfield, Va.

About Carl Zeiss Group

The Carl Zeiss Group is an international leader in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In fiscal year 2011-2012 the company's approximately 24,000 employees generated revenue of nearly 4.2 billion euros. In the markets for Industrial Solutions, Research Solutions, Medical Technology and Consumer Optics, Carl Zeiss has contributed to technological progress for more than 160 years and enhances the quality of life of many people around the globe.

The Carl Zeiss Group develops and produces planetariums, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses and binoculars as well as solutions for biomedical research, medical technology and the semiconductor, automotive and mechanical engineering industries. Carl Zeiss is present in more than 40 countries around the globe with about 40 production facilities, over 50 sales and service locations and service locations and approximately 20 research and development sites. Carl Zeiss AG is fully owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation). Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany.

Contact for media and press relations, please contact:

Joel Harris
PR Manager
Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, LLC