Outside Sales Representative

Essential Duties:

• Manage a designated territory with existing and potential customers
• Contact current and prospective customers to solicit business orders
• Sourcing new sales opportunities through cold calling
• Meeting revenue and margin goals as established by Sales Director
• Recommend products to customers, based upon customer’s needs and interests
• Maintain records, reports and notes on daily orders, phone conversations with customers
• Keep ahead of industry’s developments and apply best practices to areas of improvement
• Resolves customer challenges through investigation, developing solutions and making recommendations to management
• Build and maintain customer relationships; provide customer support with technical product information and preparing thorough and accurate quotes, order acknowledgements, samples, etc.
• Attend training and sales meetings as required to stay current with all company products
• Collaborate with all appropriate departments and personnel to ensure customer satisfaction
• Comply with all company rules, policies and procedures

Qualifications:

• 2+ years outside sales experience in industrial distribution
• College Degree preferred
• Ability to work independently
• Mechanically inclined – willing to work in industrial settings
• Strong organizational and follow up skills