Sales Representative

Our Industry with their world-wide subsidiaries is an international leader in manufacturing and machining of engineering plastics.

This is an exciting and rewarding opportunity available for a Bilingual Inside Sales Representative - Industrial Products to join our dynamic team. This is a full-time, permanent position located in our Orangeville, ON office.

Summary:
The Bilingual Inside Sales Representative - Industrial Products position is the first line of customer contact / inside sales to existing and potential customers and provides product marketing, price maintenance, inventory monitoring, business development and order entry. This position liaises and interfaces with customers, distributors, outside sales team, scheduling, the lab, distribution and accounts receivable departments.

Job Duties include but not limited to:

- Increase Sales through service, strategic quoting, and quote follow up
- Maximize gross margins through balanced approach of optimizing price and sales growth
- Build strong relationships internally, with our supplier partners and of course, our customers.
- Provides prices and delivery directly to customers. - Preparation of all required quotes to various customers and maintains a current database
- Works a quote and follow up procedure, is the point of contact decision maker
- Ensure daily orders are entered accurately with all required information
- Provide daily assistance to Territory Managers and Canadian Regional Manager
- Respond to incoming calls & faxes within 4 hours
- Respond to inquiries including inventory availability, delivery dates, pricing, technical info, etc.
- Provide excellent customer service in a professional and friendly manner
- Provides input on distributor relations and activities
- New customer and part number setups as required
- Complete all required RA forms for customer complaints and initiate complaint investigation
- Liaison between production and sales
- Provide back up for other Inside Sales Rep as required
- Assist with Canadian physical inventory counts, special projects
- Represent Engineering Plastics at Trade Shows as required
- Enter Purchase Orders for inter-company NC orders
- Continuous learning about our products, our customers and our industry
- Special projects as assigned - market studies, potential future product specific projects
- Assist manufacturing in product inspection and determining if products meet customer requirements and specifications
- Prospecting for end-user (OEM) business on a project basis for industrial products and once opportunity is identified strategically “pull through” qualified leads to established distribution partners

**Requirements**:

- 1-3 years inside sales/customer service, preferably in a plastic or manufacturing related environment
- Bilingual (English / French) both written and verbal required
- Product knowledge or industry experience is considered an asset
- Ability to think and act independently within a fast-paced multi-task driven environment
- Computer literacy, working with Microsoft NAV, Word, Excel, Outlook
- Strong mathematical and analytical skills
- Good organizational skills required to meet customer deadlines and internal quote follow up procedures
- Goal Driven with ability to work towards targets
- Great customer relationship skills
- Highly motivated and energetic team player
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be a team player through positive relationships, cross-training and being able to back-up other team members as needed, independently motivated
- Ability and willingness to learn
- Above average time management skills, and work effectively with other members of sales
- Positive attitude

**Salary**: $47,000 - $52,000/year

Shifts: 8 hour days, Monday - Friday (manager hasn’t decided if it is going to be 8:00am - 4:00pm, 8:30am - 4:30pm or 9:00am - 5:00pm)

**Salary**: $47,000.00-$52,000.00 per year

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay
- Overtime pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Orangeville, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- sales: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location