Hybrid Account Representative: Sales Trainee for Growth

Kimball Midwest; Gadsden (AL); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k

Deferred compensation

Mileage reimbursement

Cell phone reimbursement

Job summary

Kimball Midwest is seeking an Account Representative to join a two-year training program to gain sales experience, product knowledge, and develop skills to become a sales representative.

Kimball Midwest, a national distributor of maintenance, repair and operations products, offers a path to grow within a people-focused organization, with broad product lines and a commitment to servicing customers in the field.

Responsibilities

• Relationship Management: Cultivate strong relationships with customers in a designated territory to understand their business needs and identify areas of opportunity. We are a people business at our core, treating both customers and associates with the same respect.
• Cold Calling & Prospecting: Effectively cold call on potential customers in the territory to grow a book of business. We focus on being green and growing to continuously open new business.
• Planning & Priority Setting: Efficiently plans week in advance to prioritize customer stops and territory growth. We plan our growth from the bottom to the top instead of a top-down approach.
• Product Knowledge: Demonstrate our products to potential customers to show the value and quality of our products. We invest about 80% of our spend in American-made products.
• Achieve Sales Goals: Meet or exceed sales quotas by following our company's proven sales programs and processes learned in our training workshops. We have a goal to double our sales as a company every five years.
• Reporting: Maintain accurate records of daily sales activities by inputting information into our systems. We support our customers by reporting back to them our cost-savings ability when supporting and servicing them in the field.

Job description

Kimball Midwest is seeking an Account Representative to join a two-year training program to gain sales experience, product knowledge, and develop skills to become a sales representative.

Kimball Midwest, a national distributor of maintenance, repair and operations products, offers a path to grow within a people-focused organization, with broad product lines and a commitment to servicing customers in the field.