Account Representative

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Brainerd, MN, USA
In-Office
42K-47K Annually
Entry level
Other
The Role
Participate in a two-year sales training program while developing product knowledge, managing customer relationships, prospecting through cold calls, demonstrating products, planning territory activities, meeting sales quotas, and maintaining accurate sales activity records. The role requires travel between customer and company locations within an assigned geographic territory, use of a personal electronic device under the company’s BYOD policy, and compliance with required insurance coverage.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities

Account Representative (Hybrid)

As an Account Representative, you will enter a two-year training program to gain sales experience, product knowledge and further develop skills needed to become a sales representative.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Medical, dental, life, disability insurance, 401k and a deferred compensation plan
  • 1st year compensation plans range from $42,400-$47,400 with a salary and bonus structure
  • Mileage and cell phone reimbursement

Responsibilities

  • Relationship Management: Cultivate strong relationships with customers in a designated territory to understand their business needs and identify areas of opportunity. We are a people business at our core, treating both customers and associates with the same respect.
  • Cold Calling & Prospecting: Effectively cold call on potential customers in the territory to grow a book of business. We focus on being green and growing to continuously open new business.
  • Planning & Priority Setting: Efficiently plans week in advance to prioritize customer stops and territory growth. We plan our growth from the bottom to the top instead of a top-down approach.
  • Product Knowledge: Demonstrate our products to potential customers to show the value and quality of our products. We invest about 80% of our spend in American-made products.
  • Achieve Sales Goals: Meet or exceed sales quotas by following our company's proven sales programs and processes learned in our training workshops. We have a goal to double our sales as a company every five years.
  • Reporting: Maintain accurate records of daily sales activities by inputting information into our systems. We support our customers by reporting back to them our cost-savings ability when supporting and servicing them in the field.

Requirements

  • The ability to move to and from potential or actual customer and associates' locations and company meetings at locations within the assigned geographic area of responsibility while holding the required insurance coverage minimums
  • Use of personal electronic device that is in compliance with the company's Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy
  • The execution of an Employment Agreement and/or revised Employment Agreement exhibit(s), all of which were provided to the associate for review prior to execution

Kimball Midwest is a national distributor of maintenance, repair and operations products. For over 100 years, we have been family owned and operated offering over 55,000 products to our customers. We have grown from $1 million in sales in 1983 to more than $500 million today.

 

Kimball Midwest is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We participate in E-Verify. Participamos en E-Verify.

Skills Required

  • Ability to travel between potential or actual customer locations, associate locations, and company meetings within the assigned geographic area
  • Maintain the required minimum insurance coverage
  • Use a personal electronic device compliant with the company’s Bring Your Own Device policy
  • Execute the Employment Agreement and any revised Employment Agreement exhibits
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The Company
HQ: Sydney
15,897 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

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