It is an exciting time to build your career at Tricon! Certified as a Great Place to Work®, Tricon has been built on a foundation of perseverance, collaboration, and entrepreneurial thinking, powered by some of the industry’s top talent. Our culture values independence and accountability, where we empower our employees to make an impact.
With 30 years in business, Tricon has become a global leader in the trading and distribution of petrochemicals, polymers, and raw materials. Today, we are one of the largest privately held companies in Houston, the world’s second-largest chemical distributor according to ICIS, and ranked #35 on Forbes’ list of Top Private Companies in America. We conduct business in over 120 countries, supported by a truly multinational workforce of 1,000 employees across 40 countries.
Our team delivers value to customers and partners through deep market expertise and integrated capabilities including logistics, risk management, financing, and market intelligence. Guided by our purpose to efficiently and sustainably connect the world with essential goods, Tricon plays a critical role in enabling global commerce while helping suppliers and customers focus on what they do best.
At Tricon, you’ll join a global organization where scale meets agility, and where your ideas, ownership, and ambition can help shape the future of international trade.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Managing ex-tank sales
- Coordinating closely with the local operations team
- Supporting commercial activities and customer engagement for the Styrene portfolio
- Generate sales, achieve targets and payment collections within timeline.
- Manage, retain and grow sales, increase market share with existing customers.
- Develop and manage customer relationship to drive revenue growth.
- Identify new markets and business opportunities.
- Negotiate the terms of contract and close sales deals.
- Gather market intelligence and provide feedback on buying/price trends.
- Forecasting, preparing budget and achieving targets as per budget.
- Responsible for managing regular order flow as per budget.
- Maintains relationships with clients by providing support, information and guidance,
- Extensive visit to existing and potential customers on regular basis to generate new
business.
- Identifies product improvements by remaining current on industry trends, market activities.
- Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information.
- Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
- Maintains technical knowledge by attending workshops, establishing personal networks.
- Contributes to team efforts by accomplishing related results as needed.
Qualifications/Skills:
- Proven ability and business domain expertise is a must.
- Proactive and able to negotiate and close deals independently
- Grow business with strong client relationship skill
- Strong communication skills, excellent presentation skills
- Team player - Encourages collaboration and works cohesively with all teams.
- Willing to extensively travel to cover geography of assigned territory
Education/Experience:
- At least Minimum 5 years of sales experience
- Experience in ex-tank and/or bulk liquid chemical sales
- Strong commercial acumen and customer-facing experience
- Industry experience within chemicals, petrochemicals, or related sectors
- Product knowledge of Styrene would be a significant advantage and will be given additional weight during the selection process
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of sales experience
- Experience in ex-tank and/or bulk liquid chemical sales
- Proven ability and business domain expertise
- Strong commercial acumen and customer-facing experience
- Proactive and able to negotiate and close deals independently
- Ability to grow business with strong client relationship skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Team player who collaborates with operations and other teams
- Willingness to travel extensively to cover assigned territory
- Industry experience within chemicals, petrochemicals, or related sectors
- Product knowledge of Styrene
What We Do
Tricon Energy is a global leader in the trade and distribution of industrial chemicals, fuels, plastic intermediates, and fertilizers. Founded in 1996, the company's mission is to sustainably and efficiently connect the world with essential goods by providing superior logistics, risk management, financing, and market intelligence services to its clients and suppliers worldwide.
