Athletics and Recreation Sales Representative - South Central US (Texas)

FROM WAFFLE IRONS TO THE WORLD’S WEIGHTLIFTING LEADER

Eleiko’s story, 60 years in the making, is filled with bold ideas and ambitious goals. Rooted in a passion for strength, we took a bold leap from making waffle irons to creating the world’s finest barbells and helped shape the world of weightlifting.

With a focus on innovation and a commitment to quality and performance, Eleiko works tirelessly to make people stronger. But Eleiko is more than just a weightlifting company: for over 40 years we supply Professional and Collegiate Sports and Recreation with our wide range of free weights and strength training equipment.

We are now looking for a Sales Representative to continue our expansion in the US. You should be based in Texas, preferably in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.

What you bring to us:

As a Sales Representative for Athletics and Recreation you will be involved in the following activities:

• Be active in the field, visit customers and help them to become (more) successful
• Open new accounts.
• Consult and work out the best solution based on the customer’s needs.
• Develop relationships with top performing programs within college/university athletics and recreation by proactive outreach.
• Conduct online account research and account mapping for select target accounts.
• Use social media to share customer success and obtain market information.
• Represent ELEIKO at trade shows and at performance network events.
• Create and enlarge your network.

What do we expect from you:

• You are passionate about strength training in general and (weight)lifting in specific.
• You are hungry for developing yourself and your customers’ business.
• Represent Eleiko by displaying and living our core values of Performance, Learning and Kindness in all you do – externally and internally for all people you interact with.
• Generate Revenue.
• Sell all available Eleiko products – creating Eleiko experiences within collegiate, professional sport, and performance facilities and be a partner that will make them successful.
• Increase the Customer volume.

• Maintain a consistent pipeline of quotes with close rate sufficient to reach sales goals.
• Grow business from existing customers in the region by making repeat customers.
• Maintain and improve on our Customer NPS score.

Who Are You?

• You are probably already working in the training industry – maybe as a personal trainer, strength coach, recreation professional or as a sales representative.
• You have 3-5 years minimum B2B sales development experience, preferably in university or high schools athletics and recreation
• You are an expert in strength training, and you are passionate about strength equipment.
• You are hungry for growth.
• Proactive, professional, and result driven team-player.
• Enthusiastic and persistent.
• Passionate about sports (any kind of sport).
• You Possess a fundamental understanding of human movement in sport (anatomy, physiology) and various strength and conditioning practices currently employed in the field.
• You ideally live in the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas area

What we offer?

• A challenging full-time position and great potential for you to grow and develop yourself and your sales career.
• Great freedom and autonomy in your work.
• Competitive compensation and great benefits.
• A great team of dedicated professionals in Austin, Texas, as our US Head Office, Sweden, as our Eleiko HQ, and around the world.
• A chance to represent one of the strongest brands in the industry.

Role

Sales

Locations

Texas, USA

Remote status

Hybrid Remote