Sherwin-Williams
Dedicated Energy Sales Representative, Protective & Marine
Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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About the role
- Additional Information: This position is a field position and will be expected to travel at least 30% of the time, in the Baton Rouge Louisiana Territory.
- Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised.
Responsibilities
- Develop weekly selling plan and conduct sales calls accordingly.
- Conduct product demos to support the selling process.
- Identify sources of sales leads and follow through on leads provided by store/facility personnel as appropriate.
- Manage customer complaints within lines of authority and manage process to resolution.
- Build relationships with contracts, asset owners, engineers and stakeholders.
- Drive profitable growth and market share.
Requirements
- Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
- Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1,etc.)
- Must have a valid, unrestricted drivers license.
- Must have a high school diploma or GED.
- Must have one (1) year of experience in business-to-business sales.
- Must be willing to travel as required for this position.
Nice to have
- Have a bachelors degree or higher in business
- Have three (3) years of experience in business-to-business sales in the Energy/Oil & Gas Industry
- Have AMPP, NACE, SSPC, or related certifications.
- Have knowledge and proficiency of multiple corrosion prevention solutions
- Have experience as a Commercial Branch Manager or Sales Rep with proven successful sales performance in a large territory
- or comparable non-SW industry Sales Rep experience.
Skills
- Knowledge of Protective & Marine and Energy/Oil & Gas coatings.
- Strong understanding of surface preparation and coatings applications.
- Knowledge of sales excellence methodologies and time management.
- Proven success in outside sales and business development.
- Strong customer service, communication, and leadership skills.
- Strong working knowledge of concrete surface preparation and application of Energy/ Oil and Gas coatings.
- Knowledge of and capable of using sales excellence methods in sales calls and time management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required to effectively communicate and influence specifiers and asset owners.
Company info
- Prospecting new business and making sales calls to existing accounts for the purpose of selling to customers in the Energy/ Oil and Gas Protective & Marine focus market.
- Develop a strategy to grow business with customers and identify items or product categories that require specific attention in support of this strategy.
- Support customers' application requirements.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future (e.g., OPT, CPT, H1B, EB-1,etc.)
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