Sales Representative

Sales Representative

The General Industrial Division Sales Representative focuses on driving sales growth within a defined territory by achieving or exceeding sales targets, increasing gallon growth, and expanding opportunity account sales. Responsibilities include achieving or exceeding sales budget, increasing gallon growth and growing opportunity account sales, collecting reliable customer/territory information and estimating individual customer potential, conducting competitive product testing and comparisons to identify current competitors' strengths and weaknesses and S-W's competitive advantage, developing a strategy to sell target customers and identifying items or product categories that require specific attention in support of this strategy, conducting product demos to support the selling process, accessing product/technical information to support customers' application requirements, identifying sources of sales leads and following through on leads provided by store/facility personnel as appropriate, understanding servicing store/facility's strengths and weaknesses and communicating effectively with staff members to ensure that commitments made are within the store's capabilities. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

Minimum Requirements: Basic Qualifications: Must be at least 18 years of age. Must have a valid unrestricted driver's license. Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status. Must have a high school diploma or equivalent. Minimum Qualifications 1+ years business to business sales experience. Ability to travel (overnight) as needed Preferred Qualifications: Ability to identify specific General Industrial coating technologies Sherwin-Williams is proud to be an Affirmative Action, Equal Employment Opportunity, Inclusion and Diversity Supportive Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or by contract. VEVRAA Federal Contractor requesting priority referral of protected veterans.