Field Sales Job Description
Field Sales Duties & Responsibilities
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Field Sales Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Field Sales
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Education for Field Sales
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Employers hiring for the field sales job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Marketing, Education, Engineering, Business/Administration, Technical, Communication, Management, English, Science
Skills for Field Sales
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Desired experience for field sales includes:
Field Sales Examples
Field Sales Job Description
- Developing a strong understanding of the specific needs of the schools within your territory
- Conducting professional presentations within the territory
- Establishing good working relationships with educators including both current and potential customers
- Utilizing telephone and email to conduct a significant amount of business, reserving travel for key situations and presentations
- Utilizing Salesforce.com to build an effective territory database for analysis and planning
- Participating in two annual sales meetings
- Focuses on large and/or complex customers within a designated geographic area
- Involved in rig inspections and assists in organizing inspections if necessary
- Return misplaced items to correct locations
- Creative, goal oriented, ambitious, competitive
- Work locations will be dependent upon conditions of the aligned customer locations
- 5-8 years prior territory sales experience in a high tech, indirect and direct sales, and procurement environment with a record of driving customer adoption of technology
- Experience managing a budget and financial acumen
- BA/ BS degree from a 4 year accredited University or equivalent
- Must be self-motivated and have 2 -3 years previous sales experience (experience in publishing is a strong plus)
Field Sales Job Description
- Prepare and recommend selling expense budget and operates within the process and approved budgets
- Prepare and submit accurate fiscal period and six month rolling forecasts for all products, for all assigned accounts
- Monitor inventory levels of all products against forecast in order to recommend modifications to product purchases from factory and or local kit production
- Provide input to S&OP meetings (discuss accuracy of the forecasts, slow moving and obsolete stock and identify crisis areas)
- Advise distributors on adequate stock holding
- Assist with sales forecasts on a monthly basis internally and with distributor network
- Clearing of excess stock via active sales calls
- Sound knowledge of digital and graphics vinyl portfolio
- In depth knowledge of specifying relevant material in applications
- The successful Field Sales Associate will have 4 years' financial services sales experience, preferably with sales experience within Protection/Insurances, Investment Advice & Pensions
- Maintain an expert product knowledge base including education, consumer education, and factors influencing the market environment
- Focused, strategic, and have a desire to make an impact
- Basic knowledge of tubular equipment
- Ability to build and maintain positive customer relationships, both internal and external
- Ability to drive long distances in all types of weather
Field Sales Job Description
- Actively represent Pella at company sponsored events, professional group’s invitations to discuss and/or present Pella products, trade association meetings and/or builder home shows
- Maintaining exceptional level of expertise of products/services relating to Pella’s customers
- Engaging customers in consultative sales interaction, recommending the products and total solution that satisfy the needs of the customer
- Capable working autonomously from a home office with access to a supportive network of colleagues within the team
- Conduct preliminary evaluation of service requests from customers
- Direct, manage and encourage sales team to meet and exceed revenue and profit expectations of OIMA
- Establish and maintain high level business relationships with major customers within areas of responsibility
- Budget and authorize promotional and other expenditures for direct reports
- Plan and conduct periodic conferences and sales meetings to educate, train and stimulate the field sales team to meet exceed revenue targets
- Attend trade shows and assists in coordinating national sales manager meetings
- Responsible for all monthly reporting requirements for the Field Sales Team
- Update SFA with address changes, contact details
- Run ad-hoc reports
- Operate in a complex, rapidly changing environment
- Proven ability to identify new markets and business opportunities
- Hands-on individual who possesses the best combination of strategic thinking and creative concepts to drive growth
Field Sales Job Description
- Engage with colleagues to fully utilise marketing tools, sales materials and product knowledge
- Collect, capture, analyse, use and report data (market challenges, industry opportunities, competitor activity ) in an accurate and effective manner – using it to identify customer needs, develop sales opportunities and add to business growth
- Responsible for demonstrating flexibility and commitment to service with new clients – providing a consistent, positive and effective sales experience in a manner that reflects AIBMS’s values
- Know your territory - you are our expert in our AREA area
- Live within the AREA patch
- The right to work in the UK, be over 21 years old and a full, clean driving license and proof of driving experience of at least 1 year (mandatory)
- Prepare Sales presentations
- Maintain and update daily backorder reports and track orders
- Run weekly POS reports across National accounts
- Update and run various reports by account
- Develop long-term professional relationships with academics and campus text buyers
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of the job including but not limited to the ability to walk and/or travel door-to-door for considerable distances in all types of weather conditions
- Ambitious, results-oriented and target-driven mentality
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of the job including but not limited to the ability to walk and/or travel for considerable distances in all types of weather conditions
- Requires strong oral and written communication skills, interpersonal and team building capabilities with internal functional groups with external partners
- Bachelor’s degree in EE Engineering, or equivalent strongly recommended
Field Sales Job Description
- Develop, maintain, and coordinate strategies and forecasts for sales volume, product mix, selling price, and market penetration by keeping current with supply and demand, changing trends, economic indicators, and competitors
- Lead and coach the regional segment sales force in developing the tactical and execution plan aim at growing business in focus on
- Account (Assigned account) and potential applications for the demand creation
- Collaborate with Distribution Account Manager for regional channel alignment and focus customer development and advocate to grow the entire region business
- Support fulfillment upon the managing &working with channel partner
- Develop the internal team and the channel dedicated IDT team
- Performs routine visits with our clients and must be able to handle any disputes or problems that may arise
- Shares market and competitor information with all applicable channels within the organization
- Engaging in and establishing relationships with customer leadership, including key technology and buying influencers
- Generating territory sales plan, including owning and mapping of account base opportunity funnel and forecast for sales growth in the target account base
- Must be able to travel (percent depends on territory)
- High initiative and ability to drive results through others is preferred
- Knowledge and understanding of sales channels, budget and promotional planning, sales data collection and analysis, forecasting and product distribution is necessary
- Ability to effectively work across functions and levels is essential
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and persuasive presentation skills are necessary
- Computer skills must include proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, Lotus Notes and peripheral connectivity