Location: Elk Grove Village, IL
Category: Sales Professionals
Employment Type: Permanent
Outside Sales – Chicago
Our company culture is friendly, fun with healthy competition and rewards. We offer integrity, inclusion, and career advancement. Individual contributorship and ideas are encouraged and welcomed.
Our client is a leading process-flow control company. As an Outside Sales Representative, you’ll spend your time interacting with your customers in determining their valve and instrumentation needs; you will be a problem solver, trusted advisor, and technical expert in the application of our products.
Responsible:
- Establish and expand relationships with current and prospective customers using multiple techniques including regular sales calls, cold-calling, industry networking, customer recommendations, etc. to drive aggressive closure of all available opportunities.
- Technical presentations, product demonstrations, workshops, and lunch & learns.
- Be strategic, organized, and technologically savvy in your approach to managing your sales territory.
- Maintain sales records, pipeline reporting, and generate relevant sales and market reports on a quarterly, annual, and as needed basis.
- Responsible for helping set sales target goals and marketing strategies.
Why Join Us? There is a reason we have been named a Best Workplace 20 times. Applied has earned the Outstanding Employer Support award from the US Navy and we are a GSA approved vendor.
You will receive rewards and resources to fulfill you both professionally and personally. In addition to competitive pay and all the benefits you would expect from an industry leader (401K, insurance, time off, employee assistance, etc.) you will also enjoy:
- Existing account base in a local territory.
- A LASTING CAREER – Career paths are available in sales, operations, or management throughout the country.
- Professional development and training.
- Great work / life balance.
Position Requirements:
- Proven outside sales within the industrial-hygienic, pharma, and or life sciences arenas.
- Strong technical/industry knowledge to build upon.
- Previous experience with Prophet21 (P21) highly desired.
- Valves-pumps-flow control knowledge preferred!
- Self-motivated & aggressive in sales tactics and strategies; desire to close sales!
- Computer proficiency including MS office, SAP/ERP/P-21 a plus!
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree/Equivalent experience may be substituted for degree requirement.
