Competency Center Sales Representative

Summary

Würth Industry USA is a company focused on providing industrial products and services. They are seeking a Competency Center Sales Representative responsible for building and maintaining relationships with customers while promoting solutions and services to grow sales and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Schedule, create, and lead quarterly business reviews
• Formulate medium to long-range sales plans to protect, grow, and diversify the relationship with a defined group of customers
• Develop and implement a strategic customer growth roadmap/plan with the focus on implementing new business awards and building customer dependences
• Aggressively pursue additional sales opportunities and proactively drive opportunities to successful closure
• Engage customer contacts to initiate contract renewal process, and ensure contracts are renewed on time
• Monitor competitive activity in each account and ensure appropriate response strategies are formulated and communicated
• With autonomy and tenacity, resolve issues and ensure customers receive high quality customer service
• Ensure customer profitability by maintaining and/or improving customer margin through coordinated activity with Sales Operations and other departments (obtaining customer approval on substitutes/alternatives, getting necessary price increases implemented, etc.)
• Maintain accurate information for sales pipeline, prospects, customer information and communication logs within the CRM system
• Assist in the management of all elements of contractual obligations, including but not limited to excess & obsolete inventory, value added/value engineered, cost savings documentation, pricing/material index reviews, inventory reductions, and expense minimization
• Own relationships with mid-level clients (i.e. Purchasing Manager) and foster relationships with senior clients (i.e. Purchasing Director, C-Suite, etc.)
• Support customer implementations and continuous improvement initiatives
• Perform all other duties as assigned

Skills

• B.S. Degree in Business, Marketing, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field, and/or equivalent experience
• Minimum 2 years of industrial sales experience, with related products and/or related industry
• Valid Driver's license and approved driving record
• High standard of professionalism and ethics
• Ability to analyze complex business situations and develop creative business focused solutions
• Self-starter, self-motivated, and ability to manage and drive own schedule
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, blueprint or schedule form
• Strong listening and interpersonal skills, and formidable negotiating skills
• Effective communicator, both verbally and with written communications
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers and employees. Refined persuasion and related sales and presentation skills
• Strong listening and interpersonal skills, and formidable negotiating skills
• Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and execute in a high-pressure environment
• Comfort with and efficient in data analysis, graphs, statistics, percentages and ratios
• Travel estimated up to 60%
• Experience with project management and/or new customer onboarding, a plus
• Preferred style of teamwork, collaboration, and humility

Qualifications

Must Haves

• B.S. Degree in Business, Marketing, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field, and/or equivalent experience
• Minimum 2 years of industrial sales experience, with related products and/or related industry
• Valid Driver's license and approved driving record
• High standard of professionalism and ethics
• Ability to analyze complex business situations and develop creative business focused solutions
• Self-starter, self-motivated, and ability to manage and drive own schedule
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, blueprint or schedule form
• Strong listening and interpersonal skills, and formidable negotiating skills
• Effective communicator, both verbally and with written communications
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers and employees. Refined persuasion and related sales and presentation skills
• Strong listening and interpersonal skills, and formidable negotiating skills
• Advanced Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and execute in a high-pressure environment
• Comfort with and efficient in data analysis, graphs, statistics, percentages and ratios
• Travel estimated up to 60%

Nice to Haves

• Experience with project management and/or new customer onboarding, a plus
• Preferred style of teamwork, collaboration, and humility

Benefits

• Maternity/Paternal leave after 1 year of service
• Tuition Reimbursement eligible after 1 year of service
• Health benefits and programs - medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid Time Off, accrued per pay period
• Additional day earned per year of service
• 10 paid holidays