Location: Fort Lee, NJ
Employment Type: Full-time, Exempt
Work Style: Hybrid / Business Travel Required
Base Salary: Approximately $75,000 + Bonus
Visa Sponsorship: Not Available
Department
- Metal Materials – Non-Ferrous
Position Summary
- Perform sales and purchasing activities for non-ferrous metals.
- Handle import sales activities for aviation-related materials.
- Work with non-ferrous materials including precious metal scrap, aluminum scrap, copper scrap, and other related products.
Sourcing
Essential Job Functions:
- Research and identify new suppliers.
- Develop and propose new sourcing strategies to internal Metal Teams.
- Communicate and negotiate with suppliers regarding pricing and contract terms.
- Check product quality and condition by reviewing samples or visiting suppliers.
Business Development / Sales
- Maintain relationships with existing and prospective customers.
- Conduct sales promotions to existing and prospective customers.
- Negotiate product sales with customers and prospective customers.
- Develop sales contracts.
- Communicate with Sales Assistants regarding executed sales activities.
- Communicate with customers and other related parties to resolve product sales issues as needed.
- Collect accounts receivable.
- Manage customer credit lines.
Marketing / Sales Support
- Conduct market research, including competitor and supplier information.
- Review and analyze information from end users to understand price ranges, needs, and specification requirements.
- Plan and attend trade shows.
- Assist Sales Assistants and other team members with sales and marketing activities as needed.
- Review and approve documents, including contracts prepared by Sales Assistants.
- Submit monthly or weekly sales reports to the supervisor.
- Perform quantitative analysis, including price-term simulations.
Other Responsibilities
- Continuously seek improvements and more efficient and cost-effective work processes.
- Perform special projects and other miscellaneous duties as assigned by management.
- Maintain high ethical standards in the workplace.
- Report irregular issues and problems to management and assist in resolving them.
- Maintain effective communication with internal staff and external contacts.
- Comply with all company policies and procedures.
- Maintain a clean and safe working area.
- Submit expense reports accurately and in a timely manner.
Qualifications / Skills
- Industry experience is not required.
- Approximately 3 years of professional work experience preferred.
- Strong communication skills, including reading, writing, and speaking.
- Strong negotiation, sales, marketing, planning, and organizational skills.
- Problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Dependable, flexible, and adaptable.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and high standards of business ethics and compliance.
Travel
- Frequent domestic and international travel is required.