Account Manager

RAccount Manager (Open)

Location:

Elko NV - Retail shop

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW

AIRGAS IS A DRUG-FREE WORKPLACE

Responsible for selling welding products as well as industrial and specialty gasses. They will advise customers on tools hardware and materials needed and procedures to follow. Sells abrasive products such as wheels disks and belts sells safety apparel and equipment such as goggles helmets hearing protection devices welding jackets etc. Calls on prospective and existing customers to increase sales. Works with Airgas Product specialists and VMI Technicians to bring value and added resources to improve profitability.

Target Annual Salary: $67000 to $75000
with a 30% commission bonus plan and a car allowance.
(Base Bonus is $96000 - $107000)

• Responsible for adherence to company policies including safety and the use of personal protective equipment.
• Lead and promote safety attend safety meetings and strictly observe safety rules. Ensure any injury or accident is reported immediately and investigated promptly.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you get along with customers vendors co-workers and management.
• Builds strong relationships with all branch personnel and create open communication with branch managers to grow and support business.
• Actively pursue and acquire on an on-going basis new and competitive accounts with emphasis on gasses business and product supply agreements.
• Expands existing customer base with all product lines from Airgas inventory. Maintains and upgrades selling skills and technical/product knowledge.
• Completes and turns in sales-related paperwork (call reports cylinder audits month-end reports etc.) in a timely manner.
• Prepares annual sales analysis and forecasts for the district manager.
• Provides market and competitor information to district manager.
• Maintains a professional and neat appearance of self and vehicle when representing the company
• Ensures customer inquiries related to billing problems cylinder balances order status time of delivery etc. are promptly and courteously handled providing follow-up as necessary.
• Manage pricing strategies and gross margins of assigned accounts.
• Schedule joint sales calls with vendors and Airgas Product Specialists.
• All employees are expected to perform any reasonable work request that falls within the qualifications but not specifically described.

Are you a MATCH

To perform this position successfully an associate must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skills and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable associates with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

Required Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent with Bachelors degree preferred with related experience or equivalent combination of both.

Required Length & Type of Experience:

• At least two years experience in industrial sales.
• At least five years experience in outside sales. At least five years directly related industry experience may be considered lieu of outside sales experience.
• Some experience in handling compressed gasses is preferred.
• Welding product knowledge a plus.
• Customer service or sales experience in local market.
• Proficiency working with personal computer applications such as Google Suite (Sheets Slides Docs)

Knowledge Skills & Abilities (KSAs):

• Ability to work independently and under some pressure to meet deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to read and comprehend safety data sheets
• Must be able to work flexible hours to meet customer needs and management expectations.
• Must be able to work with a wide variety of people with different personalities and backgrounds.
• Must be able to operate in a drug-free workplace.

We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans vacation sick time floating holidays and paid holidays for full-time employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds tuition reimbursement discounted college tuition for employees dependents and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees our customers patients community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their race gender sexual orientation religion disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic.

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Companys written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process please contact us by email at .

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