Outside Sales will work to grow the business by contacting customers, seeking new customers, making calls, and visiting job sites. This position is expected to have excellent communication skills and follow through on commitments.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Create new Customer Relationships
- Maintain strong relationship and service for existing customers
- Sell Lumber and Building Materials
- Create materials estimates
- Read blueprints
- Travel to job sites
- Build strong Vendor relationships
- Load and unload lumber and building materials
- Work with sales and management to create and maintain best practices
- Follow up with customers to ensure projects are taken care of timely and efficiently
- Handle customer sales at the retail store.
- Meet twice monthly with management to review sales call progress
Competency: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Ability to maintain and grow customer base through prospecting, development, quoting, and follow-up.
- Ability to read blue prints and prepare a material take-off list.
- Ability to lift building materials.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions.
- Ability to manage time with multiple priorities
- Self-motivation
- Product and building industry knowledge
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:
Education and/or Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent
Mathematical Skills: Able to perform simple math (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
Reasoning Ability: Common sense reasoning, creative thinking, problem resolution
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Valid driver’s license required
Physical Demands:
- Stand/walk for duration of work hours
- Lift/carry or maneuver heavy material (up to 100lbs)
- Occasional snow shoveling
Work Environment: This position will have employees working in and outside of the office environment. The individual will be exposed to elements including heat and cold when out on job sites
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flex Spending, Life Insurance and AD&D, Short-Term Disability, Employee Discounts, Vacation, and Paid Holidays start after 30 days; 401k with match and Profit Sharing after one year
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