Commercial Outside Sales Representative - Houston, TX

BrandSafway; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 71,400 - 107,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

401k plan

Job summary

BrandSafway in Houston, TX is seeking a Commercial Outside Sales Representative. This full-time position focuses on prospecting bid opportunities and building relationships with contractors, developers, and government agencies to win work.

The role requires experience in scaffold and work access sales, cost estimating, and Salesforce in a construction setting, plus solid Excel skills and hands-on scaffold experience. This is a permanent, on-site role in Houston.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in scaffold and work access sales, including labor contracts.
• Prior experience cost estimating scaffold and work access projects.
• Prior Salesforce experience in construction context.
• Prior construction industry experience.
• Intermediate or better MS Excel skills.
• Direct hands-on experience as a scaffold builder or foreman.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Civil Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Construction Management or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Take charge of prospecting for bid opportunities in the sales territory.
• Develop relationships with general contractors, subcontractors, developers, mechanical contractors, manufacturing facilities, architects, and government agencies that produce opportunities to bid for and win work.
• Use Salesforce to identify opportunities to bid for upcoming work and document ongoing efforts to bid and win work; review leads from Construct Connect and tag them in Salesforce as appropriate.
• Communicate to customers how our products meet their needs and potential future needs.
• Visit job sites to gather information for price quotes.
• Assemble equipment, material lists, estimate man hours, and determine freight for delivery; create price quotes in SafQuote.
• Work with contracts to usher new contracts
• Work with project controls to ensure rapid and accurate billing and changes captured promptly
• Be on hand at job sites as new jobs begin to direct construction crews
• Work with prequalification team to get BrandSafway prequalified with new customers
• Assess bid opportunities for upsell of BrandSafway products
• Report activity weekly to regional and branch sales managers.

Skills

Scaffold sales

Cost estimation

Salesforce

Industry experience

Excel

Scaffold foreman

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Job description

Commercial Outside Sales Representative - Houston, TX BrandSafway

Address 7402 Eastex Fwy, Houston, TX, 77093, US

Compensation $71,400.00 - $107,200.00/year

Schedule Full time

Job Type Permanent

Highlights

• Prior experience in scaffold and work access sales
• Prior experience cost estimating scaffold and work access projects
• Prior experience with Salesforce in a construction configuration

Description

At BrandSafway, we know our employees are our greatest asset, which is why we give them the tools, training, and resources to be successful. Come join our growing team!

Responsibilities:

• Take charge of prospecting for bid opportunities in the sales territory.
• Develop relationships with general contractors, subcontractors, developers, mechanical contractors, manufacturing facilities, architects, and government agencies that produce opportunities to bid for and win work.
• Use Salesforce software to identify opportunities to bid for upcoming work; use Salesforce software to accurately document ongoing efforts to bid and win work. Review and qualify leads coming in from Construct Connect and tag them into Salesforce as appropriate.
• Communicate to customers and potential customers how our products can meet their specified needs – and how our products can meet foreseeable needs the customer may not yet have identified.
• Visit job sites to gather information necessary to prepare price quotes.
• Working with the sales managers and the construction managers, assemble equipment & material lists, estimate man hours, identify drug testing and orientation requirements, and determine freight requirements for delivery/return; and assemble that information in SafQuote to create price quotes for submittal to customers.
• Working with the branch contracts manager, usher new contracts through the BrandSafway contracting process.
• Working with the project controls team, ensure billing is rapid and accurate and that change orders for extra work are captured promptly for billing.
• Be on hand at job sites as new jobs get underway so that construction crews have clear direction.
• Working with the BrandSafway prequalification team, get BrandSafway prequalified with new customers and get us on bidder lists for upcoming work.
• Assess bid opportunities for “upsell” potential for the full range of BrandSafway access products — Quikdeck, HAKI, mast climbers, construction elevators, sidewalk protection, trash chutes, loading docks, shoring, etc.
• Report activity weekly to the regional and branch sales managers.

Qualifications:

• Prior experience in scaffold and work access sales, particularly contracts involving labor.
• Prior experience cost estimating scaffold and work access projects.
• Prior experience with Salesforce in a construction configuration.
• Prior construction industry experience.
• Intermediate or better capability with Microsoft Excel.
• Direct hands-on experience as a scaffold builder or foreman.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Civil Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Construction Management or a related field preferred.

BrandSafway offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance along with a generous 401k plan.

About Us: BrandSafway is a leading global provider of access, specialized services, and forming and shoring solutions to the industrial, commercial and infrastructure markets. Through a network of ~340 strategic locations across 25 countries and ~40,000 employees, BrandSafway delivers a full range of industrial service solutions. BrandSafway supports maintenance and refurbishment projects as well as new construction and expansion plans with unmatched service from expert local labor and management. Today’s BrandSafway is At Work For You® — leveraging innovation and economies of scale to increase safety and productivity, while remaining nimble and responsive.

BrandSafway, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, special disabled or veteran status.

Notice to all potential job candidates:

Please be advised that BrandSafway will never require or ask for any fee from you in exchange for being considered, hired, promoted, transferred or having ongoing employment with us. It is a violation of our Code of Conduct if any employee requests any money or fee from you in exchange for tentatively special treatment or consideration. If anyone, regardless of whether an existing employee, or anyone else, requests payment of any fee in exchange for being hired into our company, you may confidentially contact our HR Compliance department at [e-mail] and provide the name of the individual and any other documentation or proof of such an act.

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