Sales Executive West Monroe, LA

Buckman; West Monroe (LA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Buckman is seeking a Sales Executive to manage an assigned US territory, focusing on customer satisfaction and revenue growth. You will develop and implement sales strategies, build strong relationships, and deliver regular forecasts to inform leadership decisions.

In this role you will address inquiries, resolve issues promptly, and explore savings projects and digital solutions to reduce costs for customers while expanding applications across accounts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 4–6 years of job-related experience.
• Experience with water clarification processes.
• Strong data analytics capabilities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to build partnerships and drive accountability.

Responsibilities

• Manage the relationship with the customer to ensure satisfaction.
• Develop and implement sales strategies to increase revenue.
• Prepare regular sales reports and forecasts to track performance.
• Respond promptly to inquiries and resolve customer concerns.
• Propose savings projects and digital solutions to lower costs.
• Support account growth by expanding applications and volumes.

Skills

Water Clarification

Data analytics

Communication skills

Partnerships

Account management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

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 bringing 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 customer 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 keep the customer happy.

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

Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Job Related Experience: 4-6 years
• Water Clarification
• Metrics/data analytics
• Communication training
• Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
• Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• 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.