Graduate Technical Sales Representative – Southeast US

Apex International - North America; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vehicle allowance

Employer-paid health insurance

401(k) with company match

Dental and vision insurance

Short-term disability insurance

Paid Time Off

Comprehensive training and development

Job summary

Apex North America is seeking a Graduate Technical Sales Representative to grow our business across the eight-state Southeast United States. This field-based role suits a recent engineering graduate with a technical mindset and an outgoing personality, ready to travel and build relationships.

You will translate customer needs into technical solutions, manage multiple projects, and collaborate with our technical, production, and service teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to learn complex products.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to build relationships across levels of an organization.
• Willingness to travel extensively across Southeast territory.
• Valid driver's license and independent work capability.

Responsibilities

• Develop new business and expand customer relationships across the eight-state Southeast territory.
• Conduct regular customer visits, technical discussions, presentations, and site assessments.
• Translate customer requirements and production challenges into technical solutions.
• Manage multiple customers, projects, quotations, trials, and follow-up activities.
• Build and maintain a strong sales pipeline.
• Maintain accurate forecasting information within Salesforce.
• Collaborate with technical, production, customer service, and management teams.
• Represent Apex at meetings, events and conferences.

Skills

Technical aptitude

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Relationship building

Problem-solving

Organization & time-management

Proactive & self-motivated

Customer facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related technical discipline

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Build a Career in Technical Sales with a Global Manufacturing Company!

Apex North America is seeking a Graduate Technical Sales Representative to develop and grow our business across an eight-state territory in the Southeast United States.

This is an excellent opportunity for a recent engineering graduate or early-career professional who combines strong technical ability with a confident, outgoing personality and a genuine enthusiasm for building relationships and developing new business. The successful candidate will be commercially ambitious, highly organized, and comfortable working independently across a large geographical territory.

This is a field-based, high-travel position. The successful candidate should be comfortable spending significant time on the road visiting customers, developing new business, supporting technical projects, and representing Apex throughout the Southeast.

What You'll Do

• Develop new business and expand existing customer relationships across the eight-state Southeast territory.
• Conduct regular customer visits, technical discussions, presentations, and site assessments.
• Translate customer requirements and production challenges into appropriate technical solutions.
• Manage multiple customers, projects, quotations, trials, and follow-up activities simultaneously.
• Build and maintain a strong, well-qualified sales pipeline.
• Maintain accurate customer, opportunity, activity, and forecasting information within Salesforce.
• Work closely with Apex’s technical, production, customer service, and management teams.
• Represent Apex professionally at customer meetings, industry events, exhibitions, and technical conferences.
• Plan travel and territory activity effectively to maximize customer contact and commercial results.
• Take ownership of the territory and deliver against agreed sales and growth targets.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A bachelor's degree in engineering or another closely related technical discipline.
• Strong technical aptitude and an interest in learning complex products and manufacturing processes.
• A confident, engaging, and energetic personality suited to a customer-facing role.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• The ability to build relationships with people at all levels of an organization.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to understand technical information and communicate its value to customers.
• Excellent organization and time-management skills.
• A proactive, resilient, and self-motivated approach.
• The ability to work independently while remaining accountable to the broader commercial team.
• A valid driver's license and a strong willingness to travel extensively throughout the assigned territory.
• Flexibility to stay overnight away from home regularly when customer schedules and business opportunities require it.

Previous sales experience is preferred but not required. We are equally interested in candidates who demonstrate strong technical ability, communication skills, commercial potential, and the personality to succeed in a customer-facing environment.

What Success Looks Like

Success in this position means more than responding to existing customer inquiries. You will be expected to develop your territory, open new doors, create opportunities, manage projects professionally, and become a trusted technical and commercial partner to Apex customers across the Southeast.

For the right person, this position offers the opportunity to build a rewarding career within a global, technically driven organization and to develop into a high-performing sales professional with significant future growth potential.

You don't need to be an anilox expert on day one. Apex will provide training and development in anilox technology, flexographic printing processes, product applications, technical problem-solving, and sales. You will work closely with our technical, production, customer service, and commercial teams to develop the knowledge and skills needed to succeed.

This position offers the opportunity to build a long-term career within a global, technically driven manufacturing organization while developing into a highly skilled technical sales professional.

Apex offers a competitive compensation package designed to reward performance and support long-term career growth.

• Competitive base salary with performance-based commission opportunity
• Vehicle allowance and reimbursement for business-related travel expenses
• Employer-paid health insurance, including HRA deductible reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Dental and vision insurance
• Company-paid short-term disability insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) plan
• Comprehensive training and professional development