Sales Executive

Buckman; United States; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Buckman in Somerset, ME is seeking an Associate Sales Executive to manage the assigned territory, build strong relationships with customers, and drive revenue through strategic sales initiatives.

You will prepare regular sales reports and forecasts, respond promptly to inquiries, and contribute to continuous improvement by proposing savings projects and new applications. Travel up to 60% is expected, with a focus on delivering exceptional service.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 1 year or less job-related experience preferred.
• Strong communication and training abilities.
• Experience with metrics and data analytics is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage the assigned territory and maintain customer relationships.
• Develop and implement sales strategies to increase revenue.
• Prepare regular sales reports and forecasts to track performance.
• Provide exceptional customer service and promptly respond to inquiries.

Skills

Territory management

Customer relationship management

Data analytics

Sales forecasting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Associate Sales Executive

Buckman–Somerset, ME

Location: Somerset, ME

Language:English

Travel: Up to 60%

Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment.

Position Summary

The Sales Executive position is responsible for managing assigned territory. Key responsibilities include overseeing and maintaining the relationship with the account to ensure customer satisfaction and address any issues that arise. The role involves developing and implementing sales strategies to increase revenue, preparing regular sales reports and forecasts to track performance, and informing strategic decisions. Providing exceptional customer service by responding promptly to inquiries and resolving any concerns is also a crucial part of the job.

Key Outcomes/Responsibilities

Customer Satisfaction: Managing the relationship with the customer in a manner that makes Buckman attractive and prevents attrition.

Actions: Business reviews, service reports (customer requested subjects and frequency), customer entertainment (lunch, dinner, teams building exercises), providing savings projects, responding to service calls as needed, data mining for issues as requested

Continuous improvement: Associate Sales Executives should bring savings projects to the customer to help improve their process (>10% of sales each year).

Actions: proposing chemical and/or digital solutions to lower customers costs, identifying process changes and assisting customers with implementation, optimizing applications or process variables/controls

Account Growth: Associate Sales Executive should reach annual sales targets by increasing volumes or obtaining new applications

Actions: commercialing new applications, increasing volumes of existing applications to improve customer performance, working with sales manager to identify target applications

Reporting/Service: Servicing the account in a manner that keeps the customer happy.

Actions: writing service reports, application testing and monitoring, business review with customers, process and application troubleshooting, responding to service calls, maintaining equipment

Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Job Related Experience: 1 year or less
• Talent development
• Facilitation/training skills
• Metrics/data analytics
• Communication training

Competencies

• Drives Engagement - Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
• Ensures Accountability - Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Develops Talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals

We appreciate the interest of recruitment partners, but we are not engaging external agencies for this role.

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