About the Role
This role involves traveling throughout your territory to meet with automotive businesses, recyclers, scrap yards, and industrial suppliers to develop relationships, identify purchasing opportunities, and grow AIM's supplier network. Success requires business development, face-to-face relationship building, material inspection, and hands-on field work.
Responsibilities
- Safely handle, lift, and move material during inspections and collections.
- Build strong relationships with existing and new suppliers throughout your assigned territory.
- Negotiate directly with suppliers and prepare accurate, timely bids based on material value.
- Evaluate catalytic converters based on market factors and conduct negotiations directly with suppliers during on-site interactions, ensuring profitability.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers through regular in-person site visits.
- Coordinate with operations and logistics teams to ensure efficient process and transportation of materials.
Requirements
- Possess a valid driver's license with a clean driving record.
- Experience in automotive, recycling, transportation, construction, or other relevant industries.
- Comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions.
- Ability to safely lift, carry, load, and unload materials weighing up to 50 lbs on a regular basis.
- Ability to travel daily throughout an assigned territory with some overnight travel required.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with suppliers and customers.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
Skills
- Business development
- Relationship building
- Material inspection
- Negotiation
Location
- Territory-based travel
Work Type
- Field-based
- Travel required
Salary/Compensations
- USD 75000 - USD 100000 - yearly
Benefits
- Vacation
- Benefits
- 401(k) matching program
- Annual AIM tuition scholarship program of up to $8,500 per eligible dependent
- Tools, training, and support for success and career growth
- Company vehicle for business travel
About the Company
- American Iron & Metal (AIM) is a family-owned company and a global leader in the metal recycling industry with over 125 sites and 4000 employees worldwide.
- AIM has prospered for eight decades due to dedicated employees and customer trust.
- AIM is a growing team with an entrepreneurial spirit, encompassing metal recycling, decommissioning and demolition, auto-parts sales and recycling, manufacturing of solder assemblies, construction waste recycling, and production of customized industrial and mining products.
- The company is committed to environmental responsibility, aiming for a greener, more sustainable future.
