Application Sales Specialist

Adecco Permanent Recruitment; Danbury (CT); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) with Company Match

Bonus and commission opportunity

Training and development

Job summary

Adecco Permanent Recruitment is actively searching for a Sales Application Specialist for a well-established, family-owned industrial manufacturing company based in Danbury, CT. This role blends customer interaction, quoting, estimating, sales support, and product learning, with long-term opportunities to grow into more complex applications work or leadership.

Open to candidates from varied B2B sales backgrounds; training will cover technical and product knowledge.

Qualifications

• B2B sales or customer-facing experience.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Self-motivated with desire to learn and grow.
• Willingness to learn technical product lines.
• Detail-oriented and organized.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Handle incoming calls, emails, and sales opportunities.
• Identify customer needs and suitable parts or solutions.
• Prepare pricing, quotations, estimates, and proposals.
• Support parts inquiries and develop knowledge for complex applications.
• Coordinate vendor pricing when needed for quotes.
• Communicate pricing and proposal details to customers and reps.
• Review requirements and technical information to support quotes.
• Qualify opportunities and route to internal teams.
• Identify replacement parts and additional products for customers.
• Process initial purchase orders before handing to Order Entry or PM.
• Collaborate with sales leadership to grow product knowledge.

Skills

B2B sales

Inside sales

Account management

Customer service

Business development

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Job description

Adecco Permanent Recruitment is actively searching for a Sales Application Specialist for a well-established, family-owned industrial manufacturing company based in Danbury, CT.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an ambitious, customer-focused professional who wants to build a career within a growing manufacturing organization. The position combines customer interaction, quoting, estimating, sales support, and product learning.

Open to candidates from a variety of B2B sales and customer-facing backgrounds and is prepared to train the right person on the technical and product side of the business. The company is experiencing significant growth, and this role offers long-term opportunities to develop into more complex applications work, outside sales, sales leadership, or other areas within the organization.

Onsite Position – Danbury, CT. Typical hours are 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM, with potential flexibility for an 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Handle incoming customer calls, emails, and sales opportunities.
• Work directly with customers to understand their needs and identify appropriate parts, products, or solutions.
• Prepare pricing, quotations, estimates, and formal written proposals.
• Support straightforward parts and catalog requests while developing the knowledge to handle more complex applications over time.
• Obtain and coordinate vendor pricing when necessary to support customer quotations.
• Communicate pricing, product information, and proposal details directly to customers and sales representatives.
• Review customer requirements, specifications, and technical information as needed to support quotations and proposals.
• Help qualify incoming opportunities and route requests to the appropriate internal team when necessary.
• Identify opportunities to provide replacement parts, additional products, and proactive customer support.
• Complete the initial processing of incoming purchase orders before handing orders to Order Entry, Project Management, or other internal teams.
• Work closely with sales leadership and internal teams while developing knowledge of the company’s products, customers, and applications.

Qualifications:

• B2B sales, inside sales, account management, customer service, business development, or other customer-facing experience.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to work directly with customers and internal teams.
• Self-motivated personality with a strong desire to learn, grow, and take on additional responsibility.
• Natural curiosity and willingness to learn a technical product line and understand customer applications.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage customer requests, quotations, proposals, and follow-up in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable working collaboratively in a fully onsite environment.
• Ability to learn new software platforms and internal systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Bachelor's degree preferred but not required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within B2B sales, industrial sales, manufacturing, equipment sales, parts sales, or a similar customer-facing environment.
• Experience working within a structured sales organization or formal sales training environment.
• Applications engineering, estimating, technical sales, or industrial distribution experience.
• Familiarity with mechanical or electrical products, technical drawings, CAD, HVAC, burners, boilers, or controls.
• Engineering or other technical education.

Compensation:

Discretionary performance bonus

Additional commission opportunity on qualifying parts sales

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• 401(k) with Company Match.
• Bonus and commission opportunity.
• Training and development on the company’s products, applications, and internal processes.
• Significant long-term growth opportunity within a rapidly expanding manufacturing organization.
• Opportunity to develop into more complex applications work, outside sales, sales leadership, or other areas of the organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers