Outside Sales - Toledo, OH
About this role
Job Summary:
Our Outside Sales Representatives sell products to business and industrial establishments or individuals at their place of business. Works with Inside Sales Representatives to ensure orders are processed quickly and accurately. Maintains long-term relationships with customers. This is a safety sensitive position.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
· Compile lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads, based on information from newspapers, business directories, industry ads, trade shows, web sites and other sources
· Travel throughout assigned territory to call on regular and prospective customers in order to establish relationships, to solicit orders and regular reoccurring business
· Display or demonstrate products, using samples or catalogs, and emphasize salable features
· Quote prices and credit terms and prepare sales contracts/purchase orders for orders obtained
· Estimate date of delivery for customer based on knowledge of company production and delivery schedules
· Prepare reports of business transactions and keep expense accounts
· Work with Inside Sales Team to maintain account activities and literature
· Track inventory levels
· Coordinate customer training
· Enter new customer data and other sales data for current and prospective customers into database for customer relationship purposes
· Develop and maintain relationships with purchasing contacts
· Investigate and resolve customer problems with products, service and/or deliveries
· Attend trade shows
· Other duties as assigned by management
· Regular and reliable attendance required
· Follow directions of supervisors and trainers
· Follow directions of RGA policies and procedures
Supervisory Responsibilities:
· No direct reports
Ed ucation and Experience: