Your Role

The Key Accounts Sales Support is responsible for supporting and assisting the outside sales team in a designated region/territory. The Key Accounts Sales Support is responsible for providing sales support as well as maintaining and updating CRM sales related information including samples opportunities product variance comments forecast notes marketing intelligence and call summaries. The Key Accounts Sales Support will also interact with customers. The main focus is to assist the sales team so they can spend more time in front of customers.

Responsibilities

• Sales Support
  • Processes sample requests
  • Follows up on samples
  • Assists with next steps and action items
  • Assists with key supplier focus programs or new product introductions (i.e. helps identify potential new customers and/or additional product introductions with existing customers)
  • Develops working knowledge of the top 10 customers for each salesperson and assist the sales team in further development of those accounts
  • Assists sales team in scheduling appointments
  • Assists with vendor requests
• Data management reporting and analysis
  • Assists in tracking Special Pricing Requests (SPR) business pull through
  • Helps track and assists with the execution of sales growth plans
  • Assists with implementing an efficient and effective call report system in which the call report is dictated by the sales team if possible
  • Assists with Gross Profit (GP) percentage tracking and in the proactive correction of declining profits where possible (i.e. identifies and makes sales team aware of trends)
• Ensures compliance with all company policies and all regulatory agencies including but not limited to: Brenntag Code of Business Conduct & Ethics Antitrust Compliance Policy Confidentiality Agreement DOL EEOC etc.
• Supports the vision and mission of the company.

Your Profile

Skills

• Language Skills
  • Read write and comprehend instructions correspondence memos basic reports procedure manuals and scientific and technical journals.
  • Read analyze and interpret financial reports legal documents and/or other complex documents.
  • Respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers regulatory agencies and/or members of the business community.
  • Effectively present information and respond to questions from peers customers managers and/or other employees.
• Reasoning Ability
  • Solve practical problems.
  • Solve complex problems.
  • Calculate figures and amounts such as discounts interest commissions proportions percentages and volumes
  • Interpret a variety of basic oral and written instructions.
  • Interpret a variety of complex oral and written instructions.
  • Define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Computer Skills
  • To perform this job successfully an individual should have knowledge of:
• Database software
  • Internet
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Word Processing software

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree preferred
• Minimum of two years of relevant experience

Our Offer

• We aim to create an environment where the best people want to work where they can turn their passion into their job and realize their full potential.
• Individual development on-the-job training and development programs designed to help our employees grow in their careers.
• Paid parental leave
• Education assistance program
• Employee assistance program
• Various healthcare plan options as well as 401(k)

Brenntag and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to any category protected by federal state or local law including as applicable applicants actual or perceived race color religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression (including transgender status) gender (including pregnancy childbirth lactation and related medical condition) genetic information military service national origin ancestry citizenship status age veteran status physical or mental disability protected medical condition as defined by applicable federal state or local law political affiliation marital status membership in an employee organization parental status expunged juvenile record or any other status protected by federal state or local law. Brenntag will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process (e.g. accommodations for a test or job interview) if so requested. When completing this application you may exclude information that would disclose or otherwise reference your race religion age sex genetic veteran status disability or any other status protected by federal state or local law. This application is considered current for sixty (60) days only. At the end of this period if you are still interested in employment it will be necessary for you to reapply by completing a new application.

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