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Arrow Electronics
Customer Sales Specialist
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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.
$73,238 / year median in Illinois
-11% projected decline
Job Description
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Customer Sales Specialist Job Description:
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services, and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow Electronics guides innovation forward for over 220,000 leading technology manufacturers and service providers. With 2025 sales of $30.9 billion, Arrow develops technology solutions that improve business and daily life. The company maintains 228 locations worldwide with over 85 countries served. A Fortune 154 company with 21,500 employees worldwide, Arrow brings technology solutions to a breadth of markets, including telecommunications, information systems, transportation, medical, industrial, and consumer electronics. Arrow provides specialized services and expertise across the entire product lifecycle. Arrow does this by connecting customers to the right technology at the right place, time, and price. Arrow provides extraordinary value to customers and suppliers - the best technology companies in the world - and connects them through the company's industry-leading services.What You Will Be Doing:
- Responsible for the day-to-day sales activities, sales support and customer service tasks for specified customers and assigned accounts.
- Processes quotes and oder preparation for specified customers and works with centralized PM's for Quote and Debit information.
Problem Resolution:
Work with appropriate supplier contacts and internal departments to solve pre-sales and post-sales problems. Ensures execution and manages the demand creation activity, applicable contracts, value added programs, returns, invoicing, credit, shipping issues, etc. Handles local expediting and assists global opportunities through local escalation. Provide proactive notification to customer of changes to delivery status, conduct bond reviews with customer (Shortages & Turns), manage SMI (Slow Moving Inventory) and NCNR (Non-Cancellable, Non-Returnable) customer conversations, own Hard & Planned Order management, PCN (Product Change Notification) Coordination and deliver and maintain the POI (Perfect Order Index). This is comprised of OTD (On-Time Delivery) and E2E (End-to-End Order Quality).Support Management:
Support sales team with direct customer contact for Order to Invoice process within Planned Demand. Liaison between sales team and Infosys to perform root cause analysis and provide more complex problem solving. Manage the interface on e-Compass reports with Infosys, drive closure by managing exceptions (Dropped Part, New Part), manage customer Forecast Response reports after Infosys has taken action and drive closure by managing exceptions. Support e-Compass engagements and manage bond requests, identifying unit turn rates that are outside of branch goals and make adjustments to ensure unit turn rates are met. Coordinate the contract refresh clause and manual inventory sweep process from IPS (In-Plant Store) or consignment back to PDC (Primary Distribution Center). Attend/lead the customer shortage calls and set internal action plan and communicate to appropriate account team members.What We Are Looking For:
- Typically requires a 2-year degree and 3-5 years of experience or High school graduate with equivalent related experience.
- Completes work under moderate supervision
- Identifies key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data
- Takes a broad perspective to problems and spots new, less obvious solutions
- Strong excel skills required (VLOOKUP and pivot table experience strongly preferred)
- Ability to be detail orientated and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to understand customer drawings with specific dimensions strongly preferred
- Military knowledge and/or work experience dealing with Aerospace & Defense strongly preferred (understanding of data code restrictions and VAS OSP 3rd party test houses and why we need to use them preferred)
- Unity/Oracle experience preferred