Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Avient Corporation is hiring a Sales Representative to sell Business Unit solutions to customers within an assigned geography or market. The role focuses on developing and retaining accounts, meeting sales and margin objectives, and managing sales plans and forecasts autonomously.
Responsibilities
- Profitable revenue growth, including robust new business development
- Achieve stated gross margin targets as a percentage of sales
- Approach the sales process with a high degree of professionalism and effectiveness by successful utilization of customer centric selling skills and tools, such as use of scorecards, business reviews, EVE tools, high/wide/deep, 5 warning signs, prospecting & new account calls, development of a robust sales funnel, collecting ARs, avoidance of bad debts, cross selling, and effective CRM system management
- Establish, track and close new business targets consistent with long-term growth objectives
- Implement marketing programs and provide feedback on resource needs and emerging opportunities
- Establish account development plans and network resources up, down and across both the customer’s organization and Avient
- Develop, execute and manage sales plans, sales budgets, and expense budgets
- As an individual and sales team member, contributes to the company's planning of both long- and short-term business objectives. This will include periodic and annual sales forecasts, as well as the setting of sales volume goals
- Prospecting and cold calling
- Deliver the planned results (AOP)
- Exercises discretion and judgment with respect to specific selling activities. These include, but are not limited to, solutions including appropriate product grades to be offered for specific applications and markets; appropriate use of standard product grades versus a custom compounded product and; competitive pricing of products
- Work both directly and cooperatively with channel partners to close business based on customer's purchasing requirements
- Maintains current accounts as well as develops new accounts. This includes independent assessment of a customer's needs and the presence of competitive pressures
- May be required to serve as a primary company representative at trade shows, conferences and in other promotional settings
- Create and maintain CRM data and sales statistics as required
- May work with Technical and Customer Service team to ensure customer requirements and satisfaction is met
Skills
- Bachelors Degree or equiv exp
- Administration - Professional Experience | 3 Years
- Sales & Customer Service - Strategic Selling Discipline | 3 Years
- Sales & Customer Service - Commercial | 3 Years
- Sales & Customer Service - Tactical Sales Techniques | 3 Years
- Sales & Customer Service - Cold Calling | 3 Years
- Cross Functional - Process Improvement | 1 Year
- Sales & Customer Service - Sales | 3 Years
Benefits
- Remote work
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