Outside Sales Representative

Job Description

Job Description

Opportunity
The Next Luxury outside representative will be responsible for driving top-line sales growth through the development of relationships, trainings, creating product awareness, and securing & maintaining display space in our distribution network showrooms and A&D community.

The primary focus will be to build relationships across multiple audiences, including showroom staff, purchasing staff, Managers, Owners of showrooms and design firms resulting in a market share and sales increase.

Specific Responsibilities
Develop relationships & maintain relationships throughout our dealer network :

• Foster individual relationships with managers and sales staff
• Help our manufacturers organize social/training events for our showrooms and design community.
• Be able to train new and current salespeople on our products.
• Make sure all salespeople have the most current catalogs and selling tools.
• Develop valuable insights to understand the value chain and what drives purchase decisions.
• Calling on the Architectural and design community to create product awareness.

Strong presentation skills to represent the brands in a variety of engagements:

• Clearly articulate unique selling propositions
• Develop deep understanding of the brand’s architecture.
• Develop detailed knowledge of all product lines and features.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in interior design, Business, Marketing, or Economics from a four-year college or university preferred.
• Must have a minimum of 5+ years outside sales experience, with strong preference given to experience in Decorative Building Products.
• Must have strong presentation and public speaking skills.

Travel

• Requires some overnight travel.
• Requires car.

Salary

• Salary commensurate with experience
• (2) Elective Bonuses Per Year
• 401(k) with matching
• Health benefits