Job Description
The Sales Representative is accountable for developing and driving sales in a specific geographic territory.
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.
- Prospecter de nouveaux clients et effectuer des appels de vente auprès des comptes existants dans le but de vendre aux clients du marché de la protection et de la marine.
- Collecter des informations fiables sur les clients/territoires et estimer le potentiel individuel de chaque client.
- Développer une stratégie pour augmenter les affaires avec les clients et identifier les articles ou catégories de produits nécessitant une attention particulière pour soutenir cette stratégie.
- Élaborer un plan de vente hebdomadaire et effectuer des appels de vente en conséquence.
- Déterminer où se trouve le client dans le processus de vente global et quelles étapes sont nécessaires pour faire avancer le processus.
- Réaliser des démonstrations de produits pour soutenir le processus de vente.
- Soutenir les exigences d'application des clients.
- Identifier les sources de pistes de vente et suivre les pistes fournies par le personnel du magasin/de l'installation, le cas échéant.
- Gérer les plaintes des clients dans les limites de l'autorité et gérer le processus jusqu'à la résolution.
Qualifications
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must have a valid state issued driver's license.
- Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status.
- Must be able to retrieve material from shelves and floor stacks and carry up to 50 lbs.
- Must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
Minimum Qualifications
- 1-3 years business to business sales experience.
- Prefer 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.
- Ability to travel (occasionally overnight) as needed
- 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.
- Demonstrated knowledge in the Protective & Marine products, Industrial Flooring products, and application methods, market dynamics and trends in the coatings industry.
- Strong working knowledge of concrete surface preparation and application of floor coatings.
- 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.
- Ability to perform the essential duties of the job with/without reasonable accommodation
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years of business to business sales experience in the coatings industry.
- Demonstrated knowledge and proficiency of multiple corrosion prevention solutions
- NACE or SSPC Certified or other industry certifications
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical/business field
Qualifications de base :
- Doit avoir au moins 18 ans.
- Doit avoir un permis de conduire valide délivré par l'État.
- Doit être légalement autorisé à travailler dans le pays d'emploi sans parrainage pour le statut de visa de travail.
- Doit être capable de récupérer du matériel sur les étagères et les piles au sol et de porter jusqu'à 50 lbs.
- Doit avoir un diplôme d'études secondaires ou équivalent.
Qualifications minimales :
- 1 à 3 ans d'expérience en vente interentreprises.
- Préférence pour une expérience en tant que directeur de succursale commerciale ou représentant commercial avec des performances de vente réussies prouvées dans un grand territoire ; ou une expérience comparable de représentant commercial dans une industrie non-SW.
- Capacité à voyager (occasionnellement de nuit) selon les besoins.
- Capacité à maintenir une discipline dans la planification des appels préalables quotidiennement et mensuellement pour garantir que le temps est maximisé et que le plan SherPlan du territoire est exécuté.
- Connaissance démontrée des produits de protection et de marine, des produits de revêtement de sol industriel, des méthodes d'application, des dynamiques du marché et des tendances dans l'industrie des revêtements.
- Connaissance approfondie de la préparation des surfaces en béton et de l'application des revêtements de sol.
- Connaissance et capacité à utiliser les méthodes d'excellence en vente dans les appels de vente et la gestion du temps.
- Capacité à évaluer les opportunités de croissance et d'amélioration et à établir une direction stratégique en tenant compte des ressources, des contraintes et des valeurs organisationnelles.
- Expérience et succès prouvés dans la réalisation d'appels de vente externes auprès de comptes commerciaux et de gros pour développer de nouvelles affaires et augmenter les affaires existantes.
- Excellentes compétences en service client de gros, y compris la résolution de problèmes et la gestion des plaintes des clients dans les limites de l'autorité et la gestion du processus jusqu'à la résolution.
- Qualités de leadership démontrées, y compris une présence professionnelle et une confiance affichée avec les clients.
- Capacité à effectuer les tâches essentielles du poste avec/sans aménagement raisonnable.
Qualifications préférées :
- Plus de 3 ans d'expérience en vente interentreprises dans l'industrie des revêtements.
- Connaissance et maîtrise démontrées de multiples solutions de prévention de la corrosion.
- Certifié NACE ou SSPC ou autres certifications de l'industrie.
- Excellentes compétences en communication verbale et écrite nécessaires pour communiquer efficacement et influencer les prescripteurs et les propriétaires d'actifs.
- Connaissance approfondie des produits de protection et de marine, de l'équipement de préparation et d'application industrielle.
- Diplôme de licence dans un domaine technique/commercial.
About Us
At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:
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