
Outside Sales Representative
- Fort St John, BC
- 60.000-65.000 $ par an
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Full health care benefits starting day one.
- Career development and training opportunities
- Comprehensive benefits with premiums fully paid for by the company for the “Core” package.
- Life insurance, disability and wellness programs
- Retirement savings programs including RRSP and DC pension with up to 5.25% employer contribution
- Paid vacation and sick time and day off on your birthday!
- Bonus programs that include annual performance
- Employee discounts on top brands of plumbing and HVAC/R products
- Education reimbursement for employees
- Employee referral program
- Safety shoe reimbursement
- Communicates with existing customers to secure continuing sales and maintain strong customer relationships;
- Optimizes the existing customer base by promoting and selling existing and new products and services to our customers;
- Offers professional, effective and efficient solutions to customer inquiries;
- Provide quotations, technical support, literature, and other support/materials for customers;
- Develops new customer potential by examining market opportunities and potential customer needs, tailoring products and services, and selling solutions to potential customers;
- Providing direction, training, coaching and leadership to branch employees;
- Communicates customer concerns on inventory and delivery so that customer loyalty is maintained and patterns continually evolve with customers changing requirements;
- Participates in setting branch sales objectives and is accountable for achieving sales results (revenue, gross margin, account targets and monthly sales quotas);
- Advises the branches of pricing competitiveness to achieve margin expectations while, at the same time, ensuring flexibility in gaining large volume and/or new customer accounts
- Pro-actively communicates with Branch management on all aspects of customer alliances ensuring customers and branch expectations are met in a manner consistent with contract terms and any issues are immediately addressed;
- Provides feedback and recommendations on new products, services, and market conditions to customers, and branch management
- Participates in trade shows, training and associated product meetings where appropriate
- A minimum of five (5) to seven (7) years experience in a similar role, preferably within the wholesale distribution industry
- Knowledge of Plumbing/HVAC industry products is required;
- Demonstrated sales and cold-calling experience, ideally within the industry;
- Experience or Post Secondary education in Business Administration or a related discipline
- Consistently meeting deadlines within a fast paced work environment and works effectively within time constraints
- Strong ability to work independently to efficiently manage the assigned territory and accounts;
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships;
- Demonstrated initiative with the ability to work in a collaborative team based environment;
- Highly organized in prioritizing work and multi-tasking;