What are the responsibilities and job description for the Truck Buyer position at Ohio Truck Sales?
Ohio Truck Sales is looking to add an entrepreneurial and extremely self-motivated Truck Buyer to its Purchasing Team! Come join the nation’s largest supplier of long hood trucks, here in Sandusky, Ohio! Founded in 2010, OTS is a semi-truck dealership that buys, reconditions and sells across the nation.
Are you self-motivated and thrive in a fast-paced environment? Are you a dealmaker that loves building relationships? Do you like to be in control of your own income that’s not capped nor limited? As a Truck Buyer, your opportunity is limitless as you are coordinating truck purchases, big and small, across the country. Your success will hinge on your ability to build rapport with small, mid, and large size trucking fleets, while being first in line to purchase their equipment. This is a hands-on and performance-based role. Come join the OTS Team today
The Truck Buyer is responsible for sourcing high-quality trucks for the dealership by networking and negotiating with trucking companies and owner-operators looking to sell their units, as well as managing potential dealership truck trade-ins. This role requires strong negotiation skills, the ability to build relationships, and effective communication to secure the best trucks for the dealership.
Key Responsibilities / Essential Job Functions
Are you self-motivated and thrive in a fast-paced environment? Are you a dealmaker that loves building relationships? Do you like to be in control of your own income that’s not capped nor limited? As a Truck Buyer, your opportunity is limitless as you are coordinating truck purchases, big and small, across the country. Your success will hinge on your ability to build rapport with small, mid, and large size trucking fleets, while being first in line to purchase their equipment. This is a hands-on and performance-based role. Come join the OTS Team today
The Truck Buyer is responsible for sourcing high-quality trucks for the dealership by networking and negotiating with trucking companies and owner-operators looking to sell their units, as well as managing potential dealership truck trade-ins. This role requires strong negotiation skills, the ability to build relationships, and effective communication to secure the best trucks for the dealership.
Key Responsibilities / Essential Job Functions
- High volume of daily outbound calls to owner-operators, small to large trucking companies nationwide who are looking to sell their equipment.
- Build and nurture strong relationships with key contacts within trucking companies, educating them on our seamless truck purchasing process and leaving a lasting impression to encourage them to choose our company to purchase their equipment.
- Train and gain product knowledge to help you better close deals.
- Assess the overall condition of trucks and accurately estimate refurbishment costs.
- Analyzing truck specs to produce projected market value
- Achieve and exceed monthly Purchasing/Sales goals through superior relationship building and company marketing
- Evaluate trade-ins offered to the dealership by potential customers.
- Utilize advanced PC software, business applications, phone conferencing, and email daily.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
- Minimum education: High School graduation or equivalent
- Prior experience in some sort of purchasing or sales
- Analytical Skills: You will be working with multiple sellers to determine the best deals for our company and will have to evaluate the many pros and cons of each, based on price, quality, speed of delivery, and other factors
- Decision-Making Skills: You will need to use the information you have gathered to make decisions on behalf of our company
- Math Skills: Basic math skills will be needed to analyze prices and project total refurbish costing at the dealership
- Negotiation Skills: You will be working with individuals selling their trucks to create the best deals. These skills will help you create those deals.
- Physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential function of the job.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time
- Ability to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and printer.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to per
