About the Role
Responsible for selling MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations) supplies along with Jan/San products (Janitorial and Sanitary Supplies) to an established portfolio of customers, along with prospecting new business, driving sales and growth and building strong relationships. This position offers a competitive base salary plus sales incentive bonus, laptop, cell phone, and mileage reimbursement.
Responsibilities
- Manages sales and customer retention initiatives efficiently to enhance overall sales performance, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
- Oversees the planning, forecasting, and reporting of sales activities and competitive pricing tactics.
- Generates a strategic sales call schedule and engages in face-to-face customer visits to identify vital opportunities and enhance sales revenue.
- Promotes value-added solutions, skillfully navigating objections and adversities.
- Identifies, develops, and maintains a pipeline of qualified, managed accounts to meet or exceed total sales and margin plan using a company designated customer relationship manager tool.
- Focuses on new account opportunities by utilizing effective cold call strategies to facilitate territory account growth opportunities.
- Implements approved sales strategies to achieve targeted sales outcomes and foster valuable customer relationships.
- Maintains industry-specific product knowledge and a deep understanding of specialized services to effectively cater to client accounts.
- Utilizes Salesforce reporting and data analysis to identify opportunities within territory for sales and revenue growth objectives.
- Reviews customer portfolio to identify and drive action with underperforming accounts.
- Collaborates with inside sales to support business growth and development.
- Applies problem-solving skills to deal creatively with complex situations.
- Troubleshoots and resolves complex problems.
- Makes decisions under conditions of uncertainty, sometimes with incomplete information, that produce effective end results.
- Independently performs assignments with instruction limited to the expected results.
- Determines and develops an approach to solutions.
- May oversee the completion of projects and assignments, including planning, assigning, monitoring and reviewing progress and accuracy of work, evaluating results.
- Contributes to employees' professional development but does not have hiring or firing authority.
Requirements
- Must reside in the state(s) specified.
- Proactive sales professional with strong organizational skills.
- Ability to prioritize selling activities and administrative tasks.
- Able to build and maintain strong relationships with customers, vendors, and internal team members.
- Develop and execute a strategic sales plan to manage existing customer base.
- Proven ability to meet or exceed sales goals.
- 3+ years of business-to-business (B2B) field sales experience.
- Requires operation of a personal vehicle and such operation is done consistently more than 50% of the average work week.
- If selected for this position, the company will run a Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) report.
- A requirement of this position is an acceptable MVR report.
Skills
- Sales
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Sales Planning
- Forecasting
- Pricing Tactics
- Cold Calling
- Problem Solving
- Salesforce
Location
- Field
Work Type
- Field Sales
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of business-to-business (B2B) field sales experience
- 5-8 years of experience in a related field
- 3-5 years of experience in a related field
Education Level
- BS/BA in a related discipline
- MS/MA
Salary/Compensations
- $70,600.00-$104,100.00 Annual
Benefits
- Medical (with Prescription drug coverage)
- Dental
- Vision plans
- Health care and Dependent Care FSA (as applicable)
- 401(K) with company match
- Paid Holiday, Vacation, Personal Time, and Wellness Day
- Paid Sick Time
- Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Short and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Whole Life insurance
- Commuter Benefits
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance
About the Company
- HDS provides the following benefits to all permanent full-time associates:
- We are committed to creating a culture that promotes equity, respect, and advocacy for every HD Supply associate.
- We value the diversity of our people.
Equal Opportunity
- HD Supply is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
