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Responsibilities

  • Develops and maintains strong client relationships with distributor accounts while meeting position objectives.
  • Ensures Parker products are specified to maintain and increase revenue by prioritizing the opportunities on an account-by-account basis to obtain optimum sales and margin results.
  • Develops and maintains comprehensive technical knowledge of group/divisional products, applications, features, advantages and benefits.
  • Keeps current with internal and external training and development.
  • Obtains specifications and approvals at engineering firms, major accounts and/or distributors assigned to develop increased sales opportunities and margins.
  • Develops and maintains comprehensive knowledge of competitive products and their activity in the marketplace and provide reports on a regular and/or monthly basis.
  • Keeps management aware of changes that would affect the distribution of Parker products.
  • Participates in the development and implementation of appropriate response strategies.
  • Assists the divisions in planning strategy to provide the products and service required for their assigned accounts.
  • Actively supports cross division and other group products with proper referral.
  • Provides product training at the distributor and customer levels.
  • Motivates and provides sales direction to the distributors.
  • Assists in the conversion of competitive accounts to Parker.

Requirements

  • College degree (technical discipline may be required for some groups) with a minimum of 3 years' experience in direct sales and/or distributor sales of industrial technical products.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both oral and written.
  • PC skills a must.
  • Must be able to travel overnight up to 25% or as required.
  • Proper product and system certification preferred.

Nice-to-haves

  • CRM experience a plus
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