Aggregate Sales Representative

Knife River Corporation; Clarkston, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Knife River Corporation is seeking an Aggregate Sales professional to establish relationships with current customers and contact potential clients for maximum volumes and profitability in concrete and aggregate sales. Responsibilities include direct customer calls, pricing, quotes, and coordinating with internal staff to ensure project success.

The role emphasizes customer relationship building, market development, and product knowledge to deliver value across pre-construction to

Qualifications

• High School or GED equivalent.
• Experience in a related field (Sales, Aggregate Production or Concrete) preferred but not required.
• Good communication skills including verbal and written.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities with short deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Make direct calls on customers and assist with service pricing, order taking, and product training.
• Market products and services to new accounts to solicit new business.
• Handle inside and outside sales and follow up on leads with project information.
• Develop product knowledge through trade shows, customer questions, and quality issues.
• Prepare quotes/bids for projects using company pricing worksheets and coordinate with internal staff.

Skills

Sales calls

Account development

Inside/outside sales

Product knowledge

Quotes and bids

Customer satisfaction

Meetings coordination

Industry awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Marketing

Job description

• Pay or shift range: $100,000 USD to $125,000 USD

Description

At Knife River, we take care of our team because we know it’s our people who make us successful. We are one of the 10 largest construction materials producers/contractors in the Country. Our goal is to build strong teams that, in turn, build strong communities. We are also a publicly traded company on the NYSE with the ticker symbol KNF and part of the S&P MidCap 400 index.

Knife River has an opening for an Aggregate Sales position in our Northern Idaho area. This position will establish good relationships with current customers, contact potential customers, create lasting customer relationships in order to obtain maximum volumes and profitability from concrete and aggregate sales.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Make direct calls on customers. Assist customers regarding service pricing, order taking, merchandising and product training as needed.
• Market products and services to new accounts such as contractors, sub-contractors, government agencies, supply houses, developers, to solicit new business.
• Handles inside and outside sales of products. Follow through on potential sales leads including obtaining necessary information such as job specifications and take off of projects.
• Develop product knowledge through value added sales, trade shows, customer questions, and product quality resolution. Ability to identify best product for customer needs and advise.
• Prepare quotes/bids for projects using appropriate worksheets that provide company unit prices. Discuss costs and schedule with operating divisions as well as providing project opportunities and challenges and other project information advice to appropriate internal staff.
• Follow through on customer satisfaction on jobs awarded. Monitor product quality during delivery and installation.
• May need to deliver aggregate samples to project owner engineer when required.
• Facilitate pre-construction, construction and post-construction meetings with appropriate internal staff as demanded by the complexity of projects awarded.
• Immediately report concerns regarding billing, credit, deliver and quality of product to appropriate internal departments and coordinate meetings with other departments, as needed, to address customer concerns.
• Attends seminars to develop product knowledge.
• Reads trade journals, newspapers, and other publications to be informed of new developments in the construction industry, government or the community.
• Pick up payments from customers as necessary to prevent COD status or late charges.
• Assists billing clerk.
• Always work safely and take action to prevent any and all unsafe actions, processes, and behaviors.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School or GED equivalent.
• Experience in a related field (Sales, Aggregate Production or Concrete) preferred but not required.
• Good communication skills including verbal and written.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities with short deadlines.

Successful candidates to be subjected to a pre-employment drug screening and background check.

Full comprehensive benefits plan available after 60 days to include, medical, dental, vision, life and 401(k) with company match.

Qualifications

Education

Preferred

Bachelors or better in Business Administration or related field.

Bachelors or better in Engineering or related field.

Bachelors or better in Marketing or related field.

Experience

Required

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