Full-Time
Outside Sales Account Representative
Toyota Tsusho America
1,001-5,000 employees
North American logistics and supply-chain services
No salary listed
Greensboro, NC, USA
Hybrid
Weekly customer or facility visits are required, with up to 25% domestic and international travel.
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- A high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) credential is required.
- Three to five years of sales experience within maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) or industrial sectors and in customer-facing roles are required.
- The role requires approximately 50% of time on site at customer plants or company facilities.
- The role requires up to 25% domestic and international travel.
- Act as the liaison between customers and the organization.
- Build and maintain a robust network of customer contacts, including weekly visits to customer plants or company facilities.
- Prepare periodic sales reports showing volume, potential sales, and expansion opportunities.
- Gather data for departmental forecasts and business planning.
- Conduct pre-call planning, post-call follow-up, and business prospecting.
- Provide timely quotes, negotiate pricing and delivery, and issue price-change notices.
- Plan, control, and manage sales activities to maximize volume and potential sales from key customers.
- Manage inventory levels and schedule shipments in collaboration with warehouses and logistics partners.
- Monitor sales results, implement countermeasures, and update weekly sales reports by the end of business each Thursday.
- Coordinate with engineering, program management, quality, manufacturing, and purchasing to develop product definitions responsive to customer needs.
- Manage mature products through phase-out and work with customers to achieve zero obsolete inventory at the end of service life.
What Toyota Tsusho America does: It provides cross-border business services across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, focusing on supply-chain management, new manufacturing, logistics, and importing/exporting to help local economies. How its products work: The company delivers end-to-end business solutions through a network of supply-chain services, including sourcing, manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, customs, and trade compliance, enabling customers to move goods efficiently from origin to destination. How it differs from competitors: It leverages a long-tenured North American footprint plus an integrated, multi-industry network backed by the broader Toyota Tsusho group, offering coordinated, end-to-end capabilities across manufacturing, logistics, and trade. What its goal is: To create a better future by solving today’s business issues for its clients and communities through practical, scalable solutions.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Georgetown, Kentucky
Founded
1953
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Radius gives Toyota Tsusho America immediate scrap, ELV, and battery-recycling scale in North America.
- Toyota Tsusho America acquired 20% of PPESNA on March 31, 2026, deepening battery demand visibility.
- The Norton Solar Project reached substantial completion in October 2025, supporting Toyota’s clean-energy procurement.
What critics are saying
- Radius Recycling’s Portland headquarters remains, but integration failure can erase the $907 million thesis.
- Toyota Tsusho America faces tariff-refund litigation filed in November 2025, tying up cash and attention.
- A failed North American recycling turnaround leaves Toyota Tsusho America a cyclical asset buyer, not operator.
What makes Toyota Tsusho America unique
- Toyota Tsusho America closed Radius Recycling on July 11, 2025, adding 100+ sites.
- Toyota Tsusho America owns North American recycling, battery, and aluminum-partnership infrastructure across the Toyota Group.
- Its 2026 PPESNA and TBMNC investments tie supply, manufacturing, and recycling into one platform.
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Benefits
Paid Time Off
Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits (Low Premiums!)
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
14 Paid Company Holidays
401(k) with Company Contribution
Educational Tuition Reimbursement
Company News
Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. (TAI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TTC), a leading Japanese trading and investment firm and a member of the Toyota Group, has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Radius Recycling, a prominent US-based scrap car and metal recycling company headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Radius Recycling soared by 102.8 percent week-on-week following news that it was set to be acquired by Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. for $1.34 billion.
Toyota Tsusho partners with Integrity Biochem to distribute new sustainable bio-based surfactants in key Asian markets.
Toyota Tsusho America pays $13.77 million for the 110,163-square-foot plant at 4043 Reynolds Court.
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