Business Sales Representative – Territory Accounts
AT&T · Bakersfield, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteOTHR$93k–$118k/yrFull-time
About the role
Join our team as a Business Sales Representative – Territory Accounts and be eligible for a $5,500 bonus. This is an acquisition sales role designed for a motivated outside seller who can handle various prospecting strategies like cold calling and walking into businesses to set appointments.
Responsibilities
- Balance field and office collaboration: Conduct customer meetings and collaborate with the team from the assigned office location.
- Possess a defined local geography and focus on creating new business with small and mid-sized companies.
- Prospect for new logos: Identify and pursue new business through provided customer prospect lists, cold calling, work referrals, networking, and local market research.
- Set appointments and create a pipeline: Build consistent customer outreach, qualify prospects, schedule meetings, and advance opportunities through the sales process.
- Own your territory: Manage a defined geographic territory, prioritize target accounts, understand local business needs, and execute a market plan.
- Sell a broad business portfolio: Position AT&T solutions across wireless, fiber, internet, voice, software defined networking, and cybersecurity.
- Serve multiple customer segments: Engage small and mid-sized businesses across vertical industries such as retail, professional services, healthcare, construction, logistics, hospitality, and local multi-site operators.
- Manage the full sales cycle: Move opportunities from prospecting and discovery through proposal, negotiation, close, implementation handoff, and follow-up.
- Maintain disciplined CRM activity: Record calls, visits, appointments, opportunities, next steps, and forecast updates accurately and consistently.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of quota carrying outside acquisition sales experience.
- Demonstrated success acquiring new business through prospecting, cold calling, referrals, appointment setting, and disciplined follow-up.
- Comfort spending significant time in the field visiting businesses, initiating conversations, and building relationships with owners, operators, and decision-makers.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to uncover customer needs and connect them to AT&T's product and solution portfolio.
- Confidence handling objections, negotiating, asking for the sale, and advancing opportunities toward close.
- A self-disciplined work style and the ability to manage daily activity, Salesforce updates, pipeline health, and quota expectations.
- Ability to collaborate with the team from the assigned office location, if available, when not acquiring new business or conducting customer visits in the field.
Qualifications
- Valid driver’s license, satisfactory driving record, current auto insurance, and reliable transportation to support field-based selling.
Skills
- Quota carrying outside acquisition sales experience.
- Cold calling and appointment setting skills.
- Customer relationship management.
- Product knowledge and solution selling.
- Business acumen and need identification.
- Objection handling and negotiation skills.
- Self-discipline and time management.
- Field and office collaboration.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
- Paid Time Off and Holidays.
- Paid Parental Leave.
- Paid Caregiver Leave.
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term).
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance.
- Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal.
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
- Extensive employee wellness programs.
- Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available), and AT&T phone.
Pay
The salary range for this role is $48,300.00 - $72,500.00, with earnings potentially ranging from $93,300 to $117,500 based on performance and quota attainment.
Schedule
This role requires a weekly commitment of 40 hours and operates on a regular schedule.