Counter Sales (Plumbing Specialist)

   You will: 

• Accurately process Sales Orders and Bids generated through telephone sales transactions.

• Assist customers who pick up their order at our Profit Center.

• Find innovative ways to grow sales with existing customers and become their trusted advisor.

• Identify opportunities for value-added services and articulate our solutions.

• Investigate and resolve customer problems and address pricing deductions and material returns timely and in accordance with Company policy and procedure, following up to ensure resolution and customer satisfaction.

• Process Inside Sales returns and refund paperwork in accordance with Company policy and procedure.

• Communicate to the Profit Center Manager and Credit Manager any changes in a customer’s business that might cause a credit risk.

• Complete various daily, weekly and monthly reports.

• Support the Product Manager’s activities as needed.

• Successfully complete required safety and compliance training programs as assigned.

• Perform other reasonably related duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management as required.

About You: 

• Experience in customer service or inside sales

• Knowledge of products sold in the Profit Center preferred

Our ideal candidate will also: 

• Effectively use Microsoft Office software (Outlook, Word, Excel) to communicate via email, to maintain weekly sales plans, call reports, customer contact files, and to analyze customer data.

• Demonstrate outstanding customer service, telephone/verbal communication, and generous listening skills.

• Demonstrate product knowledge to answer customer questions and identify opportunities to upsell or cross sell.

• Build influential relationships and trust with customers and vendors through open and interactive communication.

• Be able to ask probing questions to understand customer needs, overcome objections by recommending profitable solutions, explain our value-added services, and ask for the order and close the sale.

• Be able to build positive working relationships and inspire teamwork with co-workers.

• Be able to learn and operate the computer related systems used to process orders.

• Be able to learn to operate warehouse material-handling equipment.

• Read, write, speak, and understand English.

• Be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.