Commercial Sales Consultant I

Key Responsibilities

• Utilizes effective sales techniques, including networking and “cold calling” to develop new accounts for commercial maintenance, service, retrofit and replacement business.
• Actively manages and maintains relationships with strategic commercial customers and supports the ongoing relationships with these customers.
• Ensures that the customer receives consistent service delivery in all locations.
• Utilizes the assessment tool and other relevant systems and information to prepare the proposal for the commercial customer.
• Explains technical information to the customer in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Presents bid to customer and explains credit terms and cost factors, emphasizing quality, performance and service.
• Congrates with owners of existing buildings and inspects premises to determine installation or service requirements.
• Coordinates transition from new commercial installation customer to ongoing maintenance/service customer by meeting with owner and preparing proposals to meet their ongoing HVAC needs at project completion.
• Contacts owners periodically to advise of progress of work and resolve any service problems.
• Contacts property owners and construction agents of prospective customers to obtain information on building specifications and submits information to commercial sales/estimating department.
• Lead generation for prospective customers for use as sales leads based upon information from newspapers, business directories, industry ads, trade shows, Internet web sites and other sources.
• Develops and maintains relationships with purchasing contacts.

Qualifications

• The qualified candidate must have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Proven sales experience with emphasis on business-to business selling, cold-calling and generating sales from networking and lead generation.
• Knowledge of commercial service sales concepts, practices and procedures.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong relationship-management ability.
• Ability to build long-term relationships with customers.
• Ability to work cooperatively with technical, administrative and support staff.
• Ability to work with Microsoft Office, contact management software and databases.
• Good organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Knowledge of the commercial HVAC industry preferred.
• Self-starter with a desire to learn and to grow the business.
• The ability to work occasional overtime and weekend hours as required.

Minimum Experience

0-2 years

Years Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree