Territory Sales - Kentucky

SUMMARY : Lead salesperson for Kentucky / Tennessee . Selling production area fire protection (detection and extinguishment) equipment solutions to business and industrial establishments.  Manages and expands business relationships with targeted prospects.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Conduct sales calls to customers offices or manufacturing plants.
• Makes outbound lead follows-up calls to potential and existing customers by telephone and e-mail to qualify leads and sell products and services.
• Handles inbound sales lead calls to convert calls into sales.
• Develops customer relations including but not limited to sales leads, cold calling, qualifying leads, developing leads, and customer service.
• Meet or exceed territory sales goals.
• Maintains and develops client relations for new and larger established existing customers, assuring all existing customers are contacted regularly to ensure customer satisfaction and develop need-based marketing relations.
• Overcomes technical and business objections of prospective customers.
• Provides product demos to qualified customers on request.
• Emphasizes salable features, quotes prices and credit terms, and prepares sales orders for orders obtained.
• Estimates date of delivery to customer, based on knowledge of own firm's production and delivery schedules.
• Coordinates customer training.
• Builds and maintains customers’ relationships.
• Prepares reports of business transactions.
• Enters new customer data and other sales data for current customers into computer database.
• Attends conventions, conferences, and trade shows as needed.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
• Overnight travel up to 50%.

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