Develop and manage customer relationships within an assigned territory, prospect through cold calling, demonstrate products, grow a book of business, meet sales quotas, prioritize customer visits, and maintain accurate activity records. The role requires regular travel between customer locations and company meetings, use of a compliant personal electronic device, and maintaining required insurance coverage.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Sales Representative (Hybrid)
Position Summary
As a Sales Representative, you are accountable for engaging with existing and prospective customers, promoting products and services, and generating sales revenue.
Job Description
Compensation & Benefits
- Uncapped commission earnings
- 1st year compensation plans range from $55,000-$95,000 with a salary and bonus structure
- Mileage and cell phone reimbursement
- Medical, dental, life, disability insurance, 401k and a deferred compensation plan
Responsibilities
- Relationship Management: Cultivate strong relationships with customers in a designated territory to understand their business needs and identify areas of opportunity. We are a people business at our core, treating both customers and associates with the same respect.
- Cold Calling & Prospecting: Effectively cold call on potential customers in the territory to grow a book of business. We focus on being green and growing to continuously open new business.
- Planning & Priority Setting: Efficiently plans week in advance to prioritize customer stops and territory growth. We plan our growth from the bottom to the top instead of a top-down approach.
- Product Knowledge: Demonstrate our products to potential customers to show the value and quality of our products. We invest about 80% of our spend in American-made products.
- Achieve Sales Goals: Meet or exceed sales quotas by following our company's proven sales programs and processes learned in our training workshops. We have a goal to double our sales as a company every five years.
- Reporting: Maintain accurate records of daily sales activities by inputting information into our systems. We support our customers by reporting back to them our cost-savings ability when supporting and servicing them in the field.
Requirements
- The ability to move to and from potential or actual customer and associates' locations and company meetings at locations within the assigned geographic area of responsibility while holding the required insurance coverage minimums
- The ability to stand for long periods of time, often up to three (3) hours at a time on a daily basis, while meeting with customers and potential customers. Must be able to sit for long periods of time while traveling to and from customer and meeting locations, often up to two (2) hours at a time on a daily basis.
- Use of personal electronic device that is in compliance with the company's Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy
- The execution of an Employment Agreement and/or revised Employment Agreement exhibit(s), all of which were provided to the associate for review prior to execution
Additional Info
Kimball Midwest is a national distributor of maintenance, repair, and operations products. For over 100 years, we have been family owned and operated offering over 55,000 products to our customers. We have grown from $1 million in sales in 1983 to more than $500 million today.
Kimball Midwest is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We participate in E-Verify. Participamos en E-Verify.
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