Inside Sales

EXPERIENCE IN THE HOSE INDUSTRY HIGHLY PREFERRED

Starting Salary: $50,000-$65,000 per year, based on experience, with additional bonus opportunities

Summary of Position:

Responsible for marketing, promoting, and profitably selling MWH products and services to existing and potential customers. Enhance customer satisfaction and meet sales and profitability goals.
 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop business strategies to raise customer pool, expand store traffic, and optimize profitability
• Initiate and maintain business relationships with customers primarily in the oil field at rig locations and with local field office personnel
• Meet sales goals by training, motivating, mentoring and providing feedback to staff
• Ensure high levels of customer satisfaction through excellent service
• Sell to prospective customers using either pre-established leads or leads self-sourced by incumbents
• Complete store administration and ensure compliance with policies and procedures
• Sell, service, and promote Midwest Hose product line to external customers
• Maintain outstanding store condition and visual merchandising standards
• Propose innovative ideas to increase market share
• Maintain issues that arise from staff or customers
• Provide on-the-ground support for sales
• Meet with customers to discuss their evolving needs and to assess the quality of our company’s relationship with them
• Develop and implement new sales initiatives
• Provide report of sales data to superiors
• Maintain professionalism in the work place
• Perform any other assigned proprietary duties

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within sales and management
• Experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals to perform a variety of tasks
• Proficiency in assessing, profiling and analyzing merchants' needs and proposing customized proposals
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Critical thinking and reasoning to provide customer support and satisfaction
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Solid computer skills such as typing and navigation through various computer programs including MS Outlook, Excel, and Windows
• Must be able to type at least 50 WPM
• Compassionate and patient customer service skills
• High attention to detail
• Ability to retain product knowledge
• Commitment to work additional hours as needed to complete orders received daily
• Energetic, outgoing, and positive attitude
• Good organization skills
• Reliable and dependable
• Team-player
• Ability to prioritize and manage time

Education and Experience:

• High School diploma or GED (required)
• Some college experience (preferred but not required)
• Prior hose industry related sales experience (highly preferred but not required)
• Prior industrial hose industry experience (highly preferred)

About Us:

Midwest Hose is one of the largest hose and fitting wholesale distributors in North America. Since opening our doors in 1983, we’ve steadily grown and continue to build our loyal