Description

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Respond to incoming customer inquiries, develop accounts, and generate quotes using the company database.
• Maximize gross margin sales through careful analysis during the quote process.
• Identify and act on opportunities to increase market share by growing sales.
• Provide product prices, delivery specifications, payment terms, and offer substitute products.
• Assist outside sales and/or branch management in processing priority transactions.
• Work to understand customers business, determine customers’ requirements, and manage customer expectations to recommend specific products and solutions.
• Make value-added recommendations to increase sales.
• Enter and maintain purchase orders, customer orders, procurement matching, and trade discounts.
• Establish and maintains customer relationships and communicate with customers and co-workers to provide technical information.
• Participate in meetings and training opportunities to enhance and maintain personal and product knowledge.
• Monitor expected ship dates to ensure timely delivery and expedite.
• Provide prompt responses to internal and external customers, vendors, and branches.

Requirements

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) 
• Minimum 5-7 years’ experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and promote ideas and transfer detailed knowledge to others.
• Previous valve sales experience selling value-added long-standing products/services.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills,
• Professional image
• Strong organizational and time management skills; able to work with minimal supervision.

Working Conditions:

The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.

Physical Requirements:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Benefits: KF Valves LLC offers competitive compensation based on qualifications, a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401k benefits. Paid holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO) is also offered.