(Senior) Sales Representative

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Job Description

Are you ready to make a significant impact on a dynamic and growing company? We are seeking a talented (Senior) Sales Representative who is responsible for growing our market share within Industrial Wood by identifying and selling to prospective customers.

This exciting role is ideal for a sales professional from within industrial coatings, ideally with technical knowledge.

The position will be covering the Southeast and East side of England. The head office for Industrial Wood is Knottingley and there is opportunity to travel to Knottingley for sales meetings.

Responsibilities

• Travel to existing customers, handle daily business and provide technical service and consultancy to them
• Search for and create new business opportunities in accordance business needs, possibilities and capacity
• Conduct competitive product testing and comparisons to S-W and identify current competitors' strengths and weaknesses and S-W's competitive advantage
• Develop a strategy to sell target customers and identify items or product categories that require specific attention in support of this strategy
• Identify products and quantities that must be carried in inventory to support customer needs and communicate this to servicing facility
• Ensure customer quality and service expectations are consistently met; eliminate or reduce customer complaints
• Achieve or exceed sales and profit budget
• Increase liter growth
• Grow opportunity account sales

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in technical industrial coatings
• Proven sales experience and account management
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to interface effectively with sales, technical and manufacturing management
• Experience with Sales Force

Travel Requirements (time spent away from home or other typical office location): 75%

Our offer...

• Work life balance - hybrid and flexible working schedule
• Competitive compensation program and sales incentive bonus
• Career growth opportunities in a truly international environment
• Innovation leaders in the protective coatings industry
• Sherwin Academy offers continuous training programs for all seniority levels
• Attractive wellbeing, mental health, women & inclusion and ID&E programs

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About Us

Here, we believe there's not one path to success, we believe in careers that grow with you. Whoever you are or wherever you come from in the world, there's a place for you at Sherwin-Williams. We provide you with the opportunity to explore your curiosity and drive us forward. We'll give you the space to share your strengths and we want you to show us what you can do. You can innovate, grow and discover in a place where you can thrive!

Eligibility to Work

You will need to provide proof of right to work. It is a condition of any offer of employment we make to you that you have the permission to work in the country for the role for which you are applying for.

Equal Opportunity Employer

An equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, colour, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, disability, age pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or any other protected characteristic prohibited by law.

Please be aware, Sherwin-Williams recruiting team members will never request a candidate to provide a payment, ask for financial information, or sensitive personal information like national identification numbers, date of birth, or bank account numbers during the application process.