SALES REP III L48 LFS

Job Summary: Provides sales support to regional sales managers by assessing, growing, and developing new business accounts and improves profitable sales by performing the following duties:

Essential Functions

  1. Researches strategic market segments, generates leads, uses networking activities to establish new opportunities and generate sales.
  2. Develops and maintains relationships with purchasing contacts.
  3. Assesses customer needs, provides quotes, may perform selling presentations in conjunction with other sales team members.
  4. Analyzes and interprets records of present and past sales, trends and costs, estimated and realized revenue, and administrative obligations incurred.
  5. Works closely with other departments throughout the sales process to successively acquire new business opportunities.
  6. Estimates date of delivery to customer, based on knowledge of production and delivery schedules. Investigates and resolves customer problems with deliveries.

Additional Responsibilities

  1. Performs other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.

Organizational Core Competencies:

Customer Focus:  Builds customer confidence by ensuring expectations and commitments are met.    Establishes and maintains effective and positive relationship with internal and external customers.   Acts with customers in mind and values the importance of providing high-quality customer service.

Integrity & Trust: Sets an example by consistently modeling high standards of honesty and integrity.  Is widely trusted and is seen as a direct, truthful individual who presents information in an appropriate and helpful manner.  Maintains a reputation for honesty, confidentiality, reliability and fairness.  Is willing to admit mistakes and doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.

Collaboration:  Collaborates positively to achieve team and company objectives.  Works effectively within a diverse environment and builds strong relationships that helps and supports fellow employees in contributing to the overall success of the company.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or one to two years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Valid Driver’s License

Experience:

Special Training/Skills:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of email, spreadsheet software, and word processing software. Knowledge of commercial fishing industry and products a plus.

Mental Activities: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to read, speak, write and understand English, and must regularly use customer service skills.  The employee will frequently use interpersonal and teamwork skills.  The employee must occasionally use decision making skills, creativity, discretion, training and supervision skills; perform problem analysis, and exercise independent judgment.

LFS Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Affirmative Action-Minority, Female, Disability, and Veteran.

Background check and drug screen required upon job offer.