
Sales Director
Arcadia Cold
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Elwood • Illinois • United States
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About the role
- Initiate contact with potential customers to generate and qualify leads
- Promote the companys products and services and identify sales opportunities
- Work with Management, Sales & Marketing, Business Development Representatives, and facility General Managers to develop targeted action plans to generate new sales leads and prospects
- Develop local and regional relationships with customers and related parties, demonstrating exceptional customer focus
- Partner with operations and other sales members to fully understand Arcadias value propositions and effectively sell the entire suite of services across the Companys network
- Actively update and work within the Companys CRM tool (Salesforce.com)
- Create and deliver professional and effective presentations and request for proposal responses
- Collaborate with Aradias Solutions Implementation team to successfully onboard new customer accounts
- Manage individual budget and control expenses to ensure compliance with targets and guidelines
Requirements
- Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 5+ years of supply chain / distribution/warehousing/transportation sales experience
- Heavy experience in sales, new company prospecting, qualification, lead generation, selling, and closing new business (vs. Account Management)
- Experience in temperature-controlled warehousing or related industry preferred
- Knowledge of transportation/freight consolidation programs a bonus
- Responsive, collaborative problem solving and action action-oriented mindset
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivated, structured, disciplined, adaptable, and a positive attitude
- Hands on experience using a CRM (i.e. Salesforce.com).
- Ability to travel up to 75%
Benefits
- Equal opportunity employer
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
saleslead generationprospectingclosing new businesstemperature-controlled warehousingtransportationfreight consolidation
Soft skills
customer focuscollaborative problem solvingaction-oriented mindsetverbal communicationwritten communicationinterpersonal skillspresentation skillsorganizational skillsself-motivatedadaptable
Certifications
Bachelor's degree