Job Details
Job Location
GPRS Corporate - Maumee, OH
Remote Type
Fully Remote
Description
Job Summary:
The GPRS Market Segment Leader helps to create and drive the game plan for their segment within GPRS through industry expertise, key account management, and large project sales. Key initiatives are accomplished by partnering with the operations team, local sales team, and the project coordinator team and working collaboratively to create great customer outcomes.
Candidate must be located with a 50 mile radius of either Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Charlotte or Atlanta.
Job Goals:
- Achieve or exceed vertical order/revenue goals.
- Develop, represent, and uphold the GPRS brand within the vertical
- Maintain and be able to communicate up-to-date knowledge of market trends (technology, pricing, risk, etc.)
Job Responsibilities:
- Originates and closes financial transactions with new, existing, and former customers within an assigned target market to develop new business and retain and penetrate existing business
- Develops specialized knowledge of latest commercial developments in area of responsibility
- Contributes towards strategy and policy development with communication skills to influence others
- Ensures delivery within area of responsibility
- Develops in-depth knowledge of best practices understanding how specified vertical integrates with others
- Maintains working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
- Use good judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems within projects, product lines, markets, sales processes, campaigns, or customers. Take a new perspective on existing solutions. Use technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations. Use multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements.
- Develop persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field, explain difficult or sensitive information; work to build consensus.
- Manage deal process, including opportunity identification, strategy creation, proposal development, deal negotiation, order closure and OTR (order to remittance) hand-off
- Maintain and communicate up-to-date knowledge of market trends (technology, pricing, risk, etc.), customer requirements, competitor actions and customer base
- Review and manage sales process for all forecasted projects within segment
- Provide timely, accurate and complete forecasts of orders and margin
- Assist in customer issue resolution
- Assist local business development team members to develop, expand, and manage customer relationships to enhance segment sales
- Present at conferences and industry events
Qualifications
Qualifications/Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or technical discipline from an accredited college or university (OR High School Diploma / GED with a minimum of 8 years of experience in the specified vertical industry and in marketing, sales, project management or customer service within the specified vertical industry)
- Minimum of 5 years of Business-to-Business sales experience. History of successful selling into the specified vertical.
- Comfortable working on small to large construction sites
- Ability and willingness to work flexible / long hours as necessary
- Ability and willingness to travel to determined customer base
- History of demonstrated success achieving Op Plan targets in a commercial function
- Proven sales record and/or aptitude to succeed in a technical and relationship driven busines
- Willingness to work independently (after proper training) and be a self-starter
- Ability to effectively manage time and budget / expense parameters
- Ability to manage and influence in a matrix environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Integrative team working style.
- Demonstrated computer skills (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Adaptable and flexible to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity, and change
- Must be located with a 50 mile radius of either Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, Charlotte or Atlanta.
Compensation:
This position is compensated on a salaried exempt basis and includes a full benefits package as per our current full time team member offerings.
What We Do
GPRS envisions a tomorrow with the capability of 100% subsurface damage prevention. We will pursue all avenues of technology, training and methodology to realize this goal of safety for our clients. Our 99.8%+ accuracy rating on over 250,000 projects leads the industry. When our newest offering of 3D Laser Scanning is combined with Utility Locating, Ground Penetrating Radar, Video Pipe Inspection, Leak Detection and Concrete Scanning - you receive the most comprehensive subsurface solutions available.
We exist to provide the best opportunities and development for team members while delivering a sensational experience to our customers, preventing them from experiencing the problems associated with unknown subsurface elements.
GPRS is the nation’s largest company specializing in the detection of underground utilities, CCTV Pipe Inspections and the scanning of concrete structures. GPRS has an extensive nationwide network of highly trained and experienced technicians in every major U.S. market.
Utilizing GPR reduces risk and cost, promotes a safe work environment, and provides non-destructive testing by locating materials such as concrete, plastic, metal, steel, rock, soil, ice, and pavement. Our client base includes hospitals, universities, surveyors, engineers, homeowners, contractors, environmentalists, and excavators.
