Rental Sales Executive - Transportation

Portland•Portland, OR

About The Position

Rental Sales Executive - Transportation Overview The Rental Sales Executive is responsible for promoting and selling commercial rental trucks in the western Oregon market. The role focuses on serving fleet customers by understanding their needs, presenting value-driven solutions, and maintaining strong relationships. Key duties include developing new business, ensuring customer satisfaction, upholding a positive brand image, and meeting sales and financial targets to drive profitable growth. Benefits Base Salary + Monthly Commission Car allowance + fuel card Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance 401(k) Retirement Plan w/company match Paid Time Off (PTO)

Requirements

Business Acumen – Using an understanding of business issues, processes, and outcomes to maintain and enhance business performance.
Communication & Teamwork – Listens and communicates openly, honestly, and respectfully with diverse audiences while promoting dialogue and building consensus; works collaboratively across teams to achieve organizational goals.
Customer Understanding & Focus – Demonstrates a strong grasp of customer industries, operations, and business drivers while providing service excellence and tailored solutions that optimize customer profitability. Maintains ongoing client contact and offers seasoned advice to both customers and internal teams to support growth and long-term success.
Initiative - Dealing with situations and issues proactively and persistently, seizing opportunities that arise. Focusing on addressing current issues.
Influencing Skills - Persuades, convinces, and influences others to obtain their buy-in and support for specific course, action, or direction. Understands others’ point of view. Creates, maintains and leverages a network of supportive relationships.
Negotiations - Ability to explore positions and alternatives to reach the best possible outcome by seeking mutual benefits and maintaining relationships in business discussions with their counterparts.
High school education or equivalent
Relevant work experience in active sales for a minimum of 2 years, preferably Business to Business (B2B)
Commercial knowledge and understanding of customer and industry business
Valid Driver’s License

Responsibilities

Prospecting – Identify business opportunities. Contribute to identifying potential customers and create sales opportunities that deliver value to the customer and are profitable for business.
Quality/Develop – Develop and increase the customer base by analyzing contacts or prospects, understand their needs, plan, and conduct meetings, building relationships, and argue the value proposition.
Promote/Quote – Offer the best products and solutions covering and matching the customers’ needs and expectations.
Finalize Deals – Close the deal and ensure long-term customer satisfaction.
Follow Up and Reporting – Follow up with customers to ensure needs were met and adjust where needed. Report out on completed sales, lost sales, and future potential.
Value Selling – Ability to apply the method to identify the right solution for the individual customer as well as explain the value of an offer, expressed in money and/or time.
Adaptability – Adapting to work effectively in ambiguous or changing situations and with diverse individuals and groups.