What are the responsibilities and job description for the Territory Sales Representative - Contemporary Concepts position at Christian Career Center?
Contemporary Concepts
Now Hiring: Territory Sales Representative
Reports To: Regional Sales Manager Travel: 3–4 nights per week within your assigned territory
About The Role
Contemporary Concepts is a Christian organization that partners with funeral homes and local businesses to provide memorial bereavement volumes that comfort grieving families and strengthen community support. As a Territory Sales Representative, one will manage and grow one's own protected, small-town-centric territory — renewing existing sponsors and securing new business sponsorships through in-person, relationship-focused outside sales. Sponsorship contracts run two years, during which time families in your community receive the bereavement volume on behalf of local sponsors.
What Territory Sales Representative Do
Now Hiring: Territory Sales Representative
Reports To: Regional Sales Manager Travel: 3–4 nights per week within your assigned territory
About The Role
Contemporary Concepts is a Christian organization that partners with funeral homes and local businesses to provide memorial bereavement volumes that comfort grieving families and strengthen community support. As a Territory Sales Representative, one will manage and grow one's own protected, small-town-centric territory — renewing existing sponsors and securing new business sponsorships through in-person, relationship-focused outside sales. Sponsorship contracts run two years, during which time families in your community receive the bereavement volume on behalf of local sponsors.
What Territory Sales Representative Do
- Manage and grow a protected, small-town-centric territory through consistent field activity
- Conduct 50–60 in-person sales calls weekly on funeral homes and potential business sponsors
- Generate leads and warm referrals through fact-finding, strategic daily planning, and an organized pipeline
- Close 6–8 new sales per week when actively working a town
- Renew existing sponsor partnerships on a two-year cycle
- Submit contracts and weekly paperwork to the home office
- Collaborate with your Regional Sales Manager and partner with fellow reps for peer learning
- Represent Contemporary Concepts with professionalism, integrity, and alignment to its Christian mission
- 1 year of successful outside B2B sales experience preferred, but not required
- Proven resilience in face-to-face sales — comfortable overcoming objections and handling rejection
- Strong organizational and self-management skills; able to work autonomously
- Valid driver's license and personal automobile with adequate insurance
- Willingness and ability to travel 3–4 nights per week
- Alignment with Contemporary Concepts' Christian mission and values
- B2B advertising sales, fundraising, Chamber of Commerce, real estate, hospice, funeral industry, or human services experience
- Experience working in small towns or rural markets
- Strong people-connection skills and comfort initiating conversations with new contacts
- 3 week structured training program with field mentorship and ride-alongs
- Ongoing coaching from your Regional Sales Manager and veteran reps
- Opportunities for territory expansion and long-term leadership roles as we grow