Contact new or existing customers to determine their solar equipment needs, suggest systems or equipment, or estimate costs.
Sales Representative Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Sales Representative to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Telesales and Tender pricing;
- Achieve sales budgets on a consistent basis;
- Establish relationships internally with all departments that support sales;
- Ability to accurately plan/ manage customer and company inventory on a monthly basis;
- Cold call on prospective clients;
- Submission of planners and reports as requested by Sales Manager;
- Working as part of a wider sales team to achieve company objectives;
- Establish and progress relationships with manufacturer and distributor partners;
- Escalating serious issues and prioritizing these without any panic;
- Responding to all client queries via calls/text/emails;
- Present, promote and sell products to existing and prospective customers;
- Arranging for delivery of orders;
- Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships;
- Continuously improve through feedback;
- Dealing with shipping requests in a timely manner.
Requirements:
- Communication skills;
- Clear credit record, with no criminal record;
- Excellent computer skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Experience on SAP would be an advantage;
- Fluent in English (Afrikaans is advantageous);
- Must be able to build rapport and have strong customer service kills;
- Well presented and spoken;
- Male/Female;
- Competitive yet able to work in a team;
- Interpersonal skills;
- Strong product knowledge, client relation, and presentation skills;
- Must be a lateral thinker and solution provider;
- Generating leads;
- Preferred: Experience in the logistics industries;
- Most important is customer obsession;
- Experience in a position that deals directly with customers (front-line).