Remote Sales Manager : 320632

Full time perm placement opportunity with our customer in the Industrial Piping industry. Comprehensive benefits package with year end bonus of 20%

The employee will be working “on-road” 75% -85% business travel, heavy at times. However, it will require some business travel to the various pipe plants, thus exposing the employee to Foundry operations. The employee will be exposed (very briefly) to the following working conditions: Extreme Heat & Cold, Noise, Vibration, Oils, and Atmospheric Conditions such as Dust, Fumes, and Metallic Particles..

Marketing, specification, and sale of pressure pipe and other pipe related products within a defined sales territory.

Essential Functions:
Implements the marketing strategy for pressure pipe, fittings and establishes new accounts, negotiates new contracts, sells and services established accounts, customers and end users.

Builds and maintains internal and external customer relationships, including but not limited to direct customers, end users, design engineers and firms, municipal engineers, specifiers, etc.

Comprehends, masters, and deploys industry knowledge, product knowledge and expertise (both USP and competitors) and continues to educate and promote the industry, company, and products.

Continues, expands and fine tunes personal knowledge, experience, expertise of marketing, products, selling tools and techniques.

Solves problems involving customer relations, complaints, data analysis of competitive products and competitors, marketing strategy, bidding, pricing and distribution channels.

Prepares and delivers demonstrations and presentations, and converts competitive product specifications to USP only.

Manages and controls fiscal sales office expenses within budget guidelines and parameters.

Utilizes the Market Manager Program and specification program to ensure complete, accurate, and timely information and actions on the Sales Office markets, projects, follow-up, etc.

Performs other duties as assigned by the Regional Sales Manager including but not limited to competitive product research, field site investigations and installations, sales reports, and target account reports and action plans.