As a Representative - Inside Sales, you will interact with existing customers, to increase sales of the Company's products and/or services. You will obtain, create, and up-sell orders, creating customer satisfaction and adding value to the customer's buying experience. You will focus on proactive selling techniques to add business or expand current book of accounts. You will collaborate with outside sales to ensure goals are being met.
Responsibilities:
1. Obtains orders through email and telephone calls, verifies and enters items, transfers orders to fulfillment, explains stock-outs and expected delivery dates.
2. Increases orders by suggesting related items, explaining features, and checks customer’s buying history.
3. Owns, qualifies and develops opportunities passed from marketing, outside sales, and national accounts.
4. Identifies ways for continuous improvement of processes.
5. Prepares, generates, and follows up on verbal or written quotations to secure orders, or determine reason for loss of order.
6. Reviews open customer order reports and takes action on open items, including those items that may be at risk in meeting customer’s promised delivery date.
7. Maintains distribution system backorder report, associated customer expediting report and notices, and customer notification.
8. Reports industry trends, competitive pricing and customer feedback to management.
Qualifications:
9. High School Degree or Equivalent required; Bachelors’ degree preferred
10. Requires knowledge and experience in sales and sales administration; still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills, however fully competent and productive professional contributor (2-4 years)
11. Familiar with Microsoft Office, and ability to perform basic computer skills
12. Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously
13. Working in team environment
14. Communicate clearly, both verbally and in written form
15. Attention to detail
16. Ability to prospect and market concepts to existing and potentially new accounts
17. Take action and solve a range of problems that may be difficult but are not typically complex
18. Identify and define problems and possible solutions independently; chooses among existing solutions
19. Ability to work independently with general supervision
20. Ability to travel 0% - 25%