
Field Sales Executive III
- Tempe, AZ
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Establish relationships with new customers and secure contracts with new customers. Drive the entire sales cycle from initial customer engagement to closed sales. Build and maintain a healthy sales pipeline to meet or exceed sales targets.
- Prospect for potential customers using various direct methods such as calling and face to face meetings, and indirect methods such as networking.
- Provide forecasts on best case and most likely sales volumes over relevant time periods. Give sales presentations, submit opportunities, and submit activity and results reports to leadership.
- Develop and maintain functional knowledge of the products, services and operations offered by the company. Interact regularly with station and operations managers and develop close and cooperative working relationship with operational staff to ensure the customer's needs are met.
- Schedule and conduct a pre-determined number of face-to-face sales visits as directed by the sales or station management.
- Input sales call information into the sales data system or other designated sales call software provided by the company and/or provides sales reports as directed by sales or station management.
- Maintain a pre-determined number of target accounts and demonstrate active attention to those accounts and progress toward closing. Meet or exceed sales threshold/quota as defined by the company.
- Work cooperatively with other sales and operational staff to support a team-selling environment.
- Bachelor's Degree preferred.
- Logistics, transportation, supply chain knowledge +5 years
- Will accept 10+ years experience in leu of bachelor's degree in sales in transportation.
- Minimum five years related experience in sales required; Outside Business to Business (B2B) Sales experience with demonstrated history of sales achievements in a base plus commission environment with experience closing sales at the executive level.
- Will consider people interested in shifting from: operations, account management or customer service in logistics, transportation, supply chain to sales.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (including PowerPoint), internet, web-based and job specific software applications.
- Ability to generate complex, error-free charts, graphs, spreadsheets and presentations
- Hunter Mentality
- Self-motivated. Able to achieve results by working independently with little or no supervision.
- Sense of urgency and follow-up.
- Strongly developed persuasive skills, proven negotiation skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think and respond quickly to sales and service issues.
- Positive, competitive, confident sales approach and ability to work effectively in a team environment to achieve results.
Company paid life insurance, accident insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage and employee assistance plan.
Voluntary benefits including additional life insurance, AD&D coverage, buy-up short- and long-term disability, critical illness, identify theft & legal plan.
401(k) with company match.
Flexible Paid Time Off programs including company paid holidays.
Tuition reimbursement program.