Total Safety is looking for an Inside Sales Rep to add to their safety conscious team! The Inside Sales Rep communicates with customers and build quotes on products, write orders and communicate pertinent information
About Total Safety
Total Safety is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management. Our Core Values are People, Safety & Wellbeing, Accountability, Responsibility, Empowerment, Honesty, Transparency, and Integrity.
Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Role qualifications:
- High school graduate or GED equivalent and minimum of two (2) years of sales related experience
- Organizational skills
- Quick thinker
- Computer Savvy
- Mathematical skills
- Excellent telephone sales personality skills and clear communication
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to multi-task and shift priorities
- Ability to pass background and drug/ alcohol test
Position responsibilities:
- Answer phones for inbound and outbound account management
- Assist with administrative setup of quotes and support order processing as directed
- Build positive customer relationships
- Follow documented customer contract requirements and refer exceptions or questions to the appropriate team member
- Provide administrative support to sales and operations teams to help meet departmental goals
- Process order cancellations or changes and communicate updates to the appropriate internal departments
- Coordinate with customers and related departments within the company
- Provide basic product and service information, assist with pricing inquiries, and support preparation of sales documentation
- Perform other related duties as required
Essential skills and experience:
- Able to work in fast-paced, self-directed environment
- Strong customer service background
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent telephone sales skills
- Decision-making, problem resolution and creative thinking skills
- Ability to multi-task activities and shift priorities
Nonessential skills and experience:
- Inside sales experience
Reporting to this position: No direct reports
Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods of time; bend; use hands to finger, keyboard use, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. Speak on phone for long periods using voice and phone system. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to an environment of constant phone conversation.
About Total Safety:
Total Safety is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, comprehensive flare services, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management.
Total Safety operates from 176 locations in 20 countries to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide (W3).
Total Safety is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.
If you require special assistance or accommodation while seeking employment with Total Safety, please contact Human Resources at (713) 353-5152. (For telecommunications device for the hearing impaired – TTY, please contact 711).
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Skills Required
- High school diploma or GED
- Minimum of two (2) years of sales-related experience
- Organizational skills
- Quick thinker
- Computer savvy
- Mathematical skills
- Excellent telephone sales skills and clear communication
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to multi-task and shift priorities
- Ability to pass background and drug/alcohol test
- Strong customer service background
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Decision-making, problem resolution and creative thinking skills
- Inside sales experience
What We Do
Total Safety is the leading global provider of integrated industrial safety services, equipment and compliance solutions, providing safety equipment, technology and data that make a meaningful difference in the way businesses run. Based in Houston, Texas and operating from more than 200 locations in more than 20 countries, our nearly 4,000 employees help our customers increase employee health and safety, meet compliance and regulatory requirements, boost productivity and reduce downtime. Driven by our unwavering commitment to our mission …to ensure the safe Wellbeing of Workers Worldwide, we work across all sectors, including oil and gas, petrochemical and refining, utilities, manufacturing, construction and mining.
