Account Executive, B2B - Florida/Caribbean

Overview of the role

This Williams-Sonoma, Inc. Business to Business team is responsible for delivering significant sales growth in the B2B channel. Our team works to leverage professional contacts in hospitality, commercial and residential market segments, focusing on A&D firms, developers, owner/operators, purchasing firms, and end users to build (and manage) a diverse project pipeline with large volume incremental sales.  The team works to identify and prospect daily, bringing new clients to WSI and being Brand Ambassadors across all the WSI brands, including Pottery Barn, West Elm, Rejuvenation, Williams-Sonoma Home, and Mark & Graham.

As an Account Executive you will be responsible for driving meaningful sales growth across all WSI Brands.

This is a remote role. Candidates should be based in Florida, ideally Miami or Orlando. 

This role covers the following territory: Florida & Caribbean

**Bi-lingual/Spanish-speaking candidates are encouraged to apply.**

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and grow the B2B client base/sales pipeline. You will leverage and build relationships, facilitate project-based solutions and work with the cross-functional team to close large volume orders across all WSI Brands.
• Promote WSI products and services to prospective and existing Business to Business clients through a variety of outreach opportunities to include telephone contacts, office and site visits, in-store events, and tradeshows.
• Leverage existing relationships with top A&D firms, developers, owner/operators, purchasing firms, and end users to drive large volume sales and manage both existing and new project opportunities.
• Work closely with the territory teams and Sales Director, conducting continuous follow-up on outstanding quotes and identifying new opportunities to generate additional sales.
• Effectively represent WSI through outstanding product knowledge and outstanding service.  Partner with the care center support teams and corporate office partners as needed to ensure best-in-class service is being provided.
• Develop and execute strategic business plan/sales strategy for driving sales growth across all brands.
• Proactively seek opportunities for expansion in new industry verticals, including research + pipeline development (Senior Living, Cruise, Education, Government, Healthcare, etc.)
• Partner with cross-functional subject matter experts to deliver the WSI value proposition and effectively execute your sales strategy.
• Develop integrated solutions through collaboration and proactive communication.
• Maintain/track your business pipeline using SalesForce.
• Travel monthly throughout territory to engage current clients, and build new relationships (estimated 25%)

 

Criteria

• A minimum of 3 years of directly relevant sales experience, Contract Furniture/Hospitality industry preferred
• An established book of business in our target market segments
• A proven track record of driving meaningful sales growth
• Ability to travel 30-40% within their territory
• A passion for furniture and interior design
• Advanced product knowledge in at least two of the following categories: indoor contract grade furniture, outdoor contract grade furniture, residential furniture (indoor and outdoor), lighting, textiles, bath/plumbing, or flooring.
• The ability to build relationships – both with cross-functional internal partners and external clients
• The ability to effectively manage concurrent and competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent proactive, solution-oriented, problem-solving skills
• The ability to travel up to 35% of the time 
• Prior experience in business to business sales and/or retail preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a variety of internal and external customers/clients/business partners and build strong relationships
• Salesforce experience (strongly preferred)
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel

 

Our Mission Around Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We firmly believe that working in a culture focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion spurs innovation, creates healthy and high-performing teams, and delivers superior customer experiences. We will create and nurture a global company culture where we confidently bring our authentic selves to work every day: where the only criteria for advancement are the quality of our work, the contributions we make to our teams and the business, and our ability to lead; and where our individual differences—whatever they may be—are valued, explored and appreciated.

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