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Tarkett

Produces flooring and sports surfaces

Account Executive

Field SalesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHartford, CT, USARemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or another related field is preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Three or more years of sales-related experience is preferred, preferably in the flooring or building materials industry.

Responsibilities

  • Develop an understanding of the company's overall business direction, mission, and operating strategies.
  • Develop a territory account list prioritized by annuity account potential, sales volume, and potential project size.
  • Identify new projects through research, networking, cold-calling, and developing deeper relationships with current clients.
  • Work directly with clients to identify appropriate product solutions for their applications, and partner with architecture and design and distribution sales teams to convert transactional opportunities into sales and potentially annuity standardization programs.
  • Consistently update the customer relationship management database with pertinent customer, project, product, and pricing information.
  • Consistently meet financial and other objectives as set.
  • Manage and establish distribution and flooring contractor business plans.
  • Develop proposals by understanding market pricing strategies and available purchase vehicles, including contracts, group purchasing organizations, and buying agreements.
  • Review daily order entry, confirm customer and segment data is correct, and follow through to ensure shipments occur within clients' expected requirements.
  • Provide weekly sales and market updates for regional and territory leaders, including competitive activity, product trends, promotional activity, and progress toward key performance indicators.
  • Follow up on installation schedules and post-installation inspections to ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Manage quality issues with customers immediately and facilitate solutions locally or in coordination with operating management at division headquarters.
  • Create and sell territory-specific promotions and merchandising programs.
  • Execute sales blitzes and product launches.
  • Build and maintain positive relationships with internal stakeholders, including other account executives, segment-specific marketing teams, marketing, and customer service, to deliver customer experiences.
  • Represent Tarkett professionally when engaging contractors, distributors, architects, design firms, and end users.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

  • Three or more years of sales-related experience, preferably in the flooring or building materials industry.
  • A bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or another related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

About the Company

Tarkett

Produces flooring and sports surfaces

Tarkett makes a wide range of flooring and sports surfaces, including vinyl, linoleum, carpet, rubber, wood, laminate, and synthetic turf for commercial, residential, and sports projects. It sells products through distributors and retailers and secures large projects via specification-led contracts, while also providing installation, maintenance, and recycling services. It operates a circular-economy program called ReStart that recycles end-of-life flooring into raw materials, aiming for 30% recycled content by 2030. Its goal is to combine people-friendly products with planet-friendly materials and to advance sustainable flooring practices, supported by recognitions from EcoVadis and CDP.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1880

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