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QE
Quality Equipment
Sales Representative
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What they do
A Sales Representative works as a sales associate in a variety of retail settings or businesses. Provides information to customers and sells merchandise or products. Provides analysis of sales activity to businesses and advises on ways to increase sales.
$71,546 / year median in North Carolina
+0% projected growth
Job Description
We are a John Deere dealer with 35 locations serving a diverse group of agricultural, commercial, and residential customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. At Quality Equipment, we pride ourselves on our commitment to our customers, our employees, and our community. Our employees and management stay close to our customers and strive to serve them quickly and in ways that make sense in each local area. Our work culture is ethical, entrepreneurial, and hard working. We work with excellent people every day - our customers and our co-workers. Our work is challenging and offers a great deal of variety in the tasks we do. At Quality Equipment, we strive to be the premier John Deere dealer in our region by serving our customers with commitment and integrity. We offer the opportunity for stable, rewarding, and challenging work with a large and growing company which still maintains the feel of a small business. At Quality Equipment, there are opportunities to grow and advance in your career. We are currently looking for a Sales Representative to join us in our Pittsboro store.
BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Represents the Company for the sale of machinery to customers within local geographic sales area.
- Must keep current on product knowledge, features, and benefits of all equipment that are sold by Quality Equipment, LLC. This involves a wide range of products including riding lawn mowers, commercial mowing equipment, utility vehicles, utility tractors, row-crop tractors, agricultural implements, and Compact Construction Equipment.
- Keeps abreast of competitive activity and competitive products. Keeps abreast of trends in our customer's business that will affect the products these customers will buy today and into the future.
- Prospects for new customers in local geographic area in different customer segments (ex., commercial mowing, governmental, agricultural).
- Maintains Company assets and other equipment (ex., vehicle, phone, computer) as assigned.
- Conducts product demonstrations at customer's job site or farm.
- Maintains in good, usable, and current condition (electronic and/or paper as directed) all manuals, price lists, and other documents given the individual by the Company.
- Has a good knowledge of used equipment values and be able to evaluate properly for trading purposes.
- After completing a sale, follow ups with customer to make sure he/she is satisfied with the item and service provided by the dealership.
- Works closely with the store sales team and supervisor to manage the work schedule and maintain full store coverage. Participates in Saturday work schedule rotation when seasonal hours dictate.
- Understands, supports, and promotes products and services from all departments of Quality Equipment (parts, service and IS).
- Account Manager for key customer accounts.
EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
- Good understanding of local conditions with a knowledge of sale and resale values of machinery.
- Must be a self-starter with good communication and inter-personal skills.
- Good computer skills.
- Positive attitude.
- Agricultural background preferred.