Inside Sales Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 3 plus years of sales and customer facing experience
• Strong communication and writing skills
• Uphold professional appearance
• Ability to build relationships with contractors in the branch
• Understand and decipher sales metrics and reports
• Inventory management experience with basic math test skills such as: cycle counts, pricing/margin, and quantity square feet
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high stress environment
• Stand, use hands, and reach with hands and arms
• Walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Sit, climb or balance
• Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required by this position includes close vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus
• ability to speak and hear
• ability to visually detect product color and shading variation
• Occasional driving both in short and long distance trips for meetings/ training, client appointments in a personally owned vehicle and potentially a Company or rented delivery vehicle, at Management's direction
• routine set up of samples and displays
• ability to operate sample making equipment

Nice To Haves

• JD Edwards experience

Responsibilities

• Drive all contractor business in branch
• Uphold proper Branch customer service standards, including greeting customers, answering phones promptly, and maintaining a friendly and service-oriented environment
• Provide accurate and expert information; be responsive to the concerns of all Branch customers, including those under the account base of other sales personnel
• Manage account selling activities by organizing account base into categories by prioritizing account activities by imminent sales potential
• Develop and implement plans for longer term sales cycles
• Partner with Management through weekly sales meetings to identify goals and to determine an effective balance of account management activities
• Participate in sample design and creation when needed
• Provide samples to trade accounts, referrals and walk-in clientele; partner with Branch Management on occasional needs to implement sample set-up per Company merchandising and marketing standards for small trade account requests
• Build sales in branch by explaining product knowledge to customers and identifying their needs