Outside Commercial Sales Representative
BPlus Pennsylvania dba BatteriesPlus
- Brookhaven, PA
- $50,000-120,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Grow assigned territory sales and new customer accounts. Manage, retain, and expand commercial customer relationships; document using CRM.
- Create and execute customer action plan.
- Generate and qualify new leads and opportunities through scheduled appointments and cold calls.
- Contact and qualify prospects to establish commercial relationships.
- Assign prospects to correct commercial portfolio.
- Utilize sales and marketing materials in managing customer and prospect relationships.
- Collect and validate customer email addresses to support email campaigns.
- Manage and document customer and prospect relationships using CRM.
- Execute commercial sales process and provide feedback for process improvement.
- Analyze and action commercial sales and activity reports.
- Annually, prepare and submit competitor comparison analysis.
- Coordinate with stores to provide customer service, order management and delivery support
- Foster team culture with the store, providing commercial training as needed
- Communicate customer and prospect information to stores to ensure they understand the relationship
- Prepare, deliver and follow-up product and service proposals to customers and prospects
- Execute customer and prospect communication plan including telephone calls, follow-up calls, emails, thank you's, and other print communication
- Initiate and promote B2B ordering where appropriate
- Comply with commercial customer pricing policy
- Reactivate lost or inactive customers
- Assist accounts receivable in collection activities
- Maintain strong understanding of competitors' capabilities and general market conditions
- Prepare special pricing and bid quotes as requested
- Work with the Batteries Plus team in market to improve selling culture and grow sales
- 2+ years of work experience in sales
- 2+ years of experience in direct face-to-face business to business sales
- Demonstrate strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Strong customer service, relationship building, and problem resolution skills
- Excellent prospecting, negotiating, follow-up, and closing skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy; thorough knowledge of business plans and budgets
- Working understanding of Google Suite/Microsoft Office with the ability to learn new technology
- Ability to calculate algebraic expressions, percentages, ratios, and measurements
- Valid driver's license with clean driving record