OUTSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE - Territory: Northern California (Sacramento region) and Northern Nevada

VETERINARY SERVICE INC•Riverside, CA

62d•$25,000 - $25,000

About The Position

VSI is currently looking for a motivated Outside Sales Representative to cover the following areas Northern California (Sacramento region) and Northern Nevada. If you love working with people and helping promote animal health, please keep reading and apply. We would love to hear from you. At VSI, we are more than just an animal health distributor. We are committed to facing and working through every challenge and celebrating your successes along the way. GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Outside Sales Representative is responsible for selling VSI vendor products to customers or thru approved dealers in the assigned territory as well as expanding the territory by prospecting new business through cold calls to potential customers/dealers within the territory. This position is responsible for offering the best possible customer experience as well as providing hands-on explanations of any new or updated products when necessary.

Requirements

Associates degree (preferred but not required)
2+ years of outside sales experience (preferred but not required)
A minimum of two (2) or more years of work experience in distributor sales, manufacturer sales, customer service or inside sales.
Any combination of experience, education, and training that will provide the level of knowledge, skills, and ability required for the job.

Responsibilities

Establish, develop and maintain business relationships with current customers and prospective customers in the assigned territory/market segment to generate new business for the organizations products/services.
Manage all sales functions assigned for the territory to ensure business growth according to budget and/or given sales growth goals.
Making customer sales calls (through media and in person), taking orders, collecting VSI returns, and problem solving with customers and management.
Define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw conclusions and negotiate skillfully in a variation of situations.
Develop customer growth strategies with dealers and/or management to establish appropriate sales goals based on sales history analysis, new product and industry trends.