Sales Representative - Protective & Marine

Sherwin-Williams•Bismarck, ND

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sales Representative is accountable for developing and driving sales in the North Dakota geographic territory. This position is a field position and will be expected to travel at least 50% of the time, in the North Dakota Territory. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

Requirements

Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1,etc.)
Must have a valid, unrestricted drivers license.
Must have a high school diploma or GED.
Must have one (1) year of experience in business to business sales
Must be able to travel at least 50%.
Ability to maintain a discipline in pre-call planning daily and monthly activity to ensure time is maximized and the territory SherPlan is being executed.
Knowledge of and capable of using sales excellence methods in sales calls and time management.
Ability to evaluate growth and improvement opportunities and establish a strategic direction taking into consideration resources, constraints, and organizational values.
Experience and proven success in conducting outside sales calls on commercial and wholesale accounts to build new business and increase existing business.
Excellent wholesale customer service skills, including problem solving and handling customer complaints within lines of authority and manage process to resolution.
Demonstrated leadership qualities, including professional presence and exhibiting confidence with customers.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills required to effectively communicate and influence specifiers and asset owners.
Strong demonstrated knowledge in Protective & Marine products, industrial preparation and application equipment.
Ability to retrieve material from shelves and floor stacks and carry up to 50 lbs.

Nice To Haves

Have a bachelors degree or higher in business
Have three (3) years of experience in business to business sales
Have knowledge and proficiency of multiple corrosion prevention solutions
Have NACE or SSPC Certified
Have experience as a Commercial Branch Manager or Sales Rep with proven successful sales performance in a large territory; or comparable non-SW industry Sales Rep experience
Have knowledge in the Protective & Marine products, Industrial Flooring products, and application methods, market dynamics and trends in the coatings industry.
Have strong working knowledge of concrete surface preparation and application of floor coatings.

Responsibilities

Prospecting new business and making sales calls to existing accounts for the purpose of selling to customers in the Protective & Marine focus market.
Collect reliable customer/territory information and estimate individual customer potential.
Develop a strategy to grow business with customers and identify items or product categories that require specific attention in support of this strategy.
Develop weekly selling plan and conduct sales calls accordingly.
Determine where customer is in the overall selling process and what steps are necessary to move the process along.
Conduct product demos to support the selling process.
Support customers' application requirements.
Identify sources of sales leads and follow through on leads provided by store/facility personnel as appropriate.
Manage customer complaints within lines of authority and manage process to resolution.

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