Flooring Specialist - North East

Rust-Oleum•Vernon Hills, IL

4h•$75,000 - $95,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Professional Flooring Specialist, your main focus will be to build and maintain strong, effective customer relationships in the resinous concrete coatings industry by acting as the principal contact with concrete floor coating contractors and distributors in the Northeast U.S. Territory.

Requirements

Previous Resinous or Industrial Concrete Coatings Flooring Industry Experience is required (sales & installing)
Must currently reside in the assigned territory and be able to travel 40-50% of the time.
Must possess a valid Driver's License and have maintained a motor vehicle record within acceptable limits as prescribed by Rust-Oleum.
Periodic evening and weekend hours required for Co-Op Shows and customer events.
Must possess exceptional follow-up skills.
Demonstrated problem-solving skills - dealing with customer complaints in a timely manner to identify appropriate solutions.
Ability to understand and carry out instructions furnished in a written or oral format.
Requires appropriate interpersonal skills to effectively analyze a customer's business and successfully communicate how our products and services can meet and/or exceed their needs.
Ability to understand pricing, calculate discounts, and profit associated with selling price; ability to calculate commissions associated with territory performance.
Analyze territory performance reports and develop sales territory business plans.
Ability to analyze problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and write reports to communicate the information.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Products and various Internet applications.
This position requires a high-energy individual, who is customer oriented and self-motivated.

Responsibilities

Grow overall flooring business by working with contractors & suppliers.
Identify concrete coating contractors and develop strong relationships with key contacts.
Work with team members to grow and develop flooring distribution business.
Maintain regular contact with customers to understand needs and to identify business opportunities.
Facilitate product recommendations, application, performance and color.
Provide timely and accurate customer quotations and work with corporate team for specification writing.
Work with the Rust-Oleum credit department to manage customer accounts.
Manage territory budgets.
Emphasis on serving as a liaison between sales, plant and R&D personnel.

Benefits

medical
dental
life
disability and business travel insurance
flexible spending accounts
EAP
stock purchases and vacation/sick days/parental leave
401(k) plan after three months of employment
Associates are vested in the RPM Pension plan after completing five years of service
Rust-Oleum offers 9 paid holidays and one floating holiday per year
You are also eligible to earn three weeks of vacation on an annualized basis.