Outside Parts and Service Salesperson - Mount Vernon, WA

Gordon Truck Centers • Mount Vernon, WA

5d • $65,000

About The Position

Freightliner Northwest is looking for a candidate to join our Outside Parts and Service sales team in Mt. Vernon, WA! The Parts & Service Outside Sales Representative is responsible for providing the parts needs of wholesale and fleet customers in the customer’s place of business, in addition to promoting service available through our service department. Helping customers satisfy their transportation needs since 1986, GTC is an expanded network of 18 dealerships doing business as Freightliner Northwest, Western Star Northwest, TrailerCraft and Freightliner of Hawaii. As a full-service Freightliner, Western Star, Wilson Trailer dealership family, GTC can sell, finance, insure and service commercial trucks for medium and heavy-duty applications. We are the premier Dealership Family in the Pacific Northwest and we build our team with the best employees. The expertise and efficiency of our team delivers first class service to our customers, safely and reliably and we offer a variety of career opportunities across our dealership network.

Requirements

• Minimum of high school diploma or GED equivalent preferred.
• 2-4+ years of experienced in parts sales.
• Experience with heavy duty truck parts required.
• Experience with customer needs assessment and satisfaction, knowledge of methods for showing as well as promoting and selling products or services.
• Knowledge of heavy duty truck parts and equipment.
• Must be professional and safety minded at all times.
• Dependable, motivated and a quick learner.
• Excellent communication both verbal and written, listening skills.
• Good customer service skills.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
• Able to work with minimal supervision and direction.
• Must have valid driver’s license and insurable and be able to support and sustain daily vehicle travel requirements.

Responsibilities

• Become a reliable and trusted business source for your customers, insuring a positive reception for future solicitation calls.
• Getting to know the customer, the customer's business and the needs of that business.
• Responding to customer parts/service or information requests quickly.
• Identify sales opportunities, prospect for new business and sell additional parts and service to customers.
• Address the customers parts and service needs, respond to information inquiries.
• Providing parts to customers from stock, procuring locally or creating a parts order as directed.
• Identifying customer needs and opportunities that will produce additional sales.
• Prospecting for new Parts & Service Department customers through phone solicitation.
• The use of structured presentations of new items or services during solicitation phone calls.
• Support activities for dealership customer satisfaction and concern resolution programs.
• The support of at customer inventory or other sales and marketing programs.
• Other duties as business needs require.

Benefits

• GTC provides a healthcare plan that covers medical, dental, vision and prescription benefits for eligible employees as well as a basic group term life insurance policy and employee assistance program.
• Eligible employees can enroll in our company Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Employees can contribute up to 60% of their pre-tax earnings to 401k and the company will match dollar for dollar of your contributions up to 3% of your income for qualifying employees.
• Tuition reimbursement and profit sharing are available for hired applicants.
• Employees also receive paid vacation, personal time off (PTO) and six (6) paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees