Outside Sales Representative

9297 Corrosion Fluid Products Corp.•Tinley Park, IL

9d•$110,000 - $130,000•Remote

About The Position

Applied Industrial Technologies is hiring an Outside Sales Representative for a South Chicago territory covering Orland Park, Tinley Park, Chicago Heights, East Chicago, and Calumet City. FCX Performance, an Applied Industrial Technologies company, is a leading process flow control company. The role grows revenue, margin, and market share for a flow control portfolio across refining, petrochemical, midstream, power, and industrial accounts. It manages day-to-day commercial relationships with end users, EPCs, and key vendor partners, generating bookings through account management, solution selling, and coordination with field service operations. The position offers a base salary, commissions, expenses, benefits, professional development and training, career paths in sales, operations, or management, and an emphasis on work/life balance. Typical estimated total compensation is $110,000–$130,000, including a first-year base salary stated as $75,00–$85,0000 depending on experience, plus uncapped commission opportunities.

Requirements

Proven experience retaining customers, developing new business, building repeat sales, and managing a territory.
Selling experience in industrial environments.
Strong mechanical aptitude.
Written and verbal communication skills, including English grammar.
Strategic, organized, and technologically savvy approach to managing a sales territory.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; equivalent experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Nice To Haves

Technical or flow-control industry background.
Experience with valves, instrumentation, and pumps.
Knowledge of valves, automation, instrumentation, or flow control.

Responsibilities

Manage an existing territory while developing new business.
Develop and execute account strategies for top regional refineries, chemical plants, terminals, and power and industrial facilities.
Grow market share through cross-selling and upgrading severe-service, critical-isolation, control-valve, actuation, instrumentation, and aftermarket-service offerings.
Build and maintain a healthy sales pipeline with accurate close dates, probability, and margin visibility.
Conduct regular site visits, lead customer meetings, and coordinate plant walkdowns to identify MRO and project opportunities.
Support outage and turnaround planning with customers.
Maintain relationships with Maintenance, Reliability, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Procurement.