Consultative Sales Representative
Engineering Innovation · Lafayette, IN · 11 mo ago
On-siteBusiness DevelopmentFull-time
Position Responsibilities
- Proactively make phone calls to engage with new prospective clients.
- Attend trade shows and association events to network and discuss client operations and needs.
- Travel to customer sites to evaluate needs, provide consultation, and identify areas of potential improvement in their operations.
- Promptly engage in ongoing discussions with clients to understand their needs and develop customized solutions.
- Document prospective client processes and improvement areas, presenting these to internal teams for collaborative solution development.
- Collaborate with teams to determine solutions, costs, and timelines, creating project proposals.
- Define, justify, document, and present proposed methodologies for potential solutions that demonstrate improved workflow and return on investment (ROI).
- Prepare weekly reports detailing follow-up activity, presentations, and new opportunities.
Qualifications
- Strong professional values including customer-centric focus, teamwork, and accountability.
- Ability to reach out to new prospective clients to engage in discussions of their operations and needs.
- Ability to represent the company well at networking events.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, sometimes ambiguous environment.
- Ability to identify weaknesses in business processes and define new processes where needed.
- Excellent autonomous problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with the postal/package processing industry is a plus, but not required.
- A background in warehouse automation, hardware, software, and business process is a plus, but not required.
- Experience in project management is a plus, but not required.
- Experience in product customization and solution-focused design is a plus, but not required.