Manufacturing

Build Real World Go-to-Market Strategy

Increase Revenue & Reduce Costs

Economic turmoil has forced manufacturing leaders to switch focus. It’s about more than just driving top-line growth. It’s about focusing on margins and reducing costs, the sources for profitable revenue growth.

What investments are manufacturers making to drive productivity and growth?

  • Maintaining margin is a go-to-market issue, not pricing: Adjusting customer and product focus allows more control over margin than negotiating price changes.
  • Diversifying revenue priorities is a necessity for growth: Diverse portfolio manufacturers derive 39% of revenue from services and software.
  • Virtual selling and self-service are here to stay: Research shows that 72% of executives are increasing inside sales headcount.
  • Raising pay alone won’t retain top talent: Over 45% of executives now prioritize non-pay strategies, including flexible work hours and training and development programs.
  • Focus on partner success: Design and deliver customer solutions to create a streamlined customer experience through direct selling or distributor network.
  • Invest in digital enablement: E-commerce platforms, data transparency, marketing co-investments and partner sales training programs are priorities.
  • Revenue Operations team investments are essential to enable productivity gains: Organizations with established Revenue Operations teams see $220K more revenue per seller at a 14% lower sales expense per seller rate.

Alexander Group helps leading manufacturers align priorities to support revenue growth and retain their competitive standing.

How We Help

  • Coverage models: Target the right opportunities with the right value by determining your market opportunity and phase of growth.
  • Marketing and demand generation blueprint: Evaluate current and new markets and areas of opportunity. Optimize marketing channels, mix and return.
  • Service selling: Provide services wrapped around products as a value-add for customers to lock in predictable revenue.
  • Revenue Operations: Invest in Revenue Operations to integrate Marketing, Sales and Service and drive commercial efficiency.
  • Sales compensation: Align sales compensation and quota programs to motivate and achieve more aggressive business goals.
  • Actionable research & benchmarks: Provide current and relevant data, trends and benchmarks to help guide Sales, Marketing and Operations decisions.

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Upcoming Manufacturing Events

  • Sales Compensation Symposium: Virtual

    Industry Focus: All

    Revolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp. Designed specifically for senior executives, join industry peers and renowned experts to gain exclusive access to cutting-edge research, emerging trends, real-world case studies and proven best practices in governance, design and administration.

    • Tuesday, August 11, 2026 –
      Tuesday, August 11, 2026
    • Virtual
  • Incentive ROI: Evaluating the Health of Your Sales Compensation Programme

    EMEA Virtual Roundtable

    August 12, 2026 | 16:00 – 17:00 GMT

    Before your next compensation cycle, leaders should be asking one critical question: Is your sales compensation program working?

    Join us virtually on Aug.12 for a tactical health check revealing what’s helping or hindering success. 

    Alexander Group prepared an interactive session that will provide participants with a practical framework to assess the health of their current plans, benchmark against industry best practices and identify opportunities for improvement.

    Session Objectives

    • Benchmark your current sales compensation program against a proven health check framework
    • Evaluate performance across the five tenets of a world-class sales compensation program.
    • Assess plan design against market leading guidelines.
    • Identify gaps, risks and opportunities for enhancement.
    • Improve your ability to attract, motivate, reward and retain top sales talent.
    • Develop actionable next steps to strengthen your program for 2027 and beyond.

    Building on the insights shared during the programme health check session, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from peers, explore common challenges and develop actionable strategies to optimise their sales compensation programmes to better attract, motivate, reward and retain top sales talent.

    Come prepared to assess your own programme, compare your approach against proven best practices and actively participate in peer discussions. Bring your questions, challenges and experiences to gain practical insights and leave with a clear action plan to strengthen your sales compensation strategy for 2027 and beyond.

    • Wednesday, August 12, 2026
      4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. GMT
    • Virtual
  • Sales Compensation Symposium: Chicago

    Industry Focus: All

    Revolutionize your approach at the #1 event for sales compensation professionals and all executives who care about sales comp.
    Designed specifically for executives in HR, Compensation, Sales and Revenue Operations that want to use sales comp more effectively.

    Industry Focus: All

    • Thursday, August 27, 2026 –
      Thursday, August 27, 2026
    • Chicago
  • Manufacturing/Distribution: From Shop Floor to Smart GTM

    Virtual Roundtable

    Building the Revenue-Ready Marketing Organization for Industrials, Building Materials, Specialty Chemicals and Distribution

    For industrial, building materials, specialty chemicals and distribution leaders, marketing has long been measured by trade-show booths, catalogs and lead lists rather than pipeline and bookings.  

    That era is ending. Now, manufacturing and distribution organizations must prepare their Marketing functions to act as an always-on, full-funnel demand engine that proves its contribution with the same discipline as sales. However, only 24% of organizations rate their demand-gen architecture as advanced or optimized, and just 26% say marketing sources 41%+ of pipeline—leaving enormous headroom for teams willing to modernize.  

    Join Alexander Group’s executive roundtable to examine how leading industrial and distribution organizations are using AI to produce technical content at scale and enable channel partners, while building the full-funnel demand architecture and attribution rigor that proves ROI to the board.  

    During this one-hour discussion, we’ll tackle: 

    • Technical content at scale: Using AI to generate specifications, compliance documentation and application content that historically bottlenecked engineering and product teams.  
    • Distributor and channel enablement: Arming partners with AI-assisted content and turning channel data into pipeline visibility across indirect revenue.  
    • Beyond the trade show: Rebuilding event-heavy budgets into an always-on, full-funnel demand system with real ROI accountability.  
    • Attribution and the MQL-to-MQA shift: Moving from lead volume to pipeline quality when only 24% rate their demand architecture as advanced.  
    • The industrial talent model: Closing gaps in brand strategy, storytelling and digital optimization that stall execution.  

    Leaders will walk away with:  

    • An AI playbook for technical content and distributor enablement built for engineered-product realities.  
    • A full-funnel demand blueprint that finally puts trade show and field spend on the same footing for ROI.  
    • Marketing-sourced pipeline and demand-architecture benchmarks specific to manufacturing and distribution.  
    • A shared CMO–CRO framework for channel visibility, lead quality and forecast confidence.  
    • Priority access to the Manufacturing and Distribution sector briefing and the Revenue-Ready self-diagnostic.  

    Who Should Attend  

    CMOs, CROs, CCOs and SVPs/VPs of Marketing and Sales at industrial manufacturers, building-materials producers, specialty-chemicals companies and distributors. 

    Attendance is limited to foster candor, and sessions are not recorded for distribution. 

    • Wednesday, September 16, 2026
      1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
    • Virtual
  • Executive Forum

    St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, IL

    Join senior sales, marketing, commercial and operations leaders to share stories of transformation, connect 1:1 virtually and take away actionable ideas.

    • Wednesday, September 30, 2026 –
      Thursday, October 1, 2026
    • St. Regis Hotel | Chicago, IL

Revenue Symposium

Reserve your spot at Alexander Group’s upcoming Revenue Symposium. Join leading manufacturers and distributors as we discuss the latest strategies and best practices.