Outside Sales Representative Houston-Gulf Coast

KLINGER GPI provides industrial sealing products technical expertise and reliability-focused solutions to refineries petrochemical plants chemical facilities and industrial operations throughout the Gulf Coast region. Backed by KLINGERs global manufacturing network and local operational support we help customers improve safety reliability and operational performance in demanding industrial environments.

As a Regional Account Manager you will drive growth for industrial gasketing solutions across the Houston-area heavy industrial market. This role exists to expand territory revenue while delivering technically sound responsive support to plant and procurement stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

-Develop new business opportunities within refinery petrochemical chemical power generation and industrial accounts

-Build relationships with engineering maintenance reliability operations procurement and plant leadership teams

-Grow territory sales through prospecting plant visits networking and strategic account development

-Expand existing customer accounts while identifying additional opportunities

-Recommend technical sealing and reliability solutions that improve safety and operational performance

-Follow up on opportunities and support outage and turnaround activities

-Coordinate with inside sales operations engineering and leadership teams to support customers

-Maintain CRM activity forecasting and territory reporting

-Monitor market activity outages turnarounds and competitive developments throughout the Gulf Coast region

-5 years of outside sales business development or technical industrial sales experience preferred

-Experience selling into refineries petrochemical plants chemical plants power generation or heavy industrial markets strongly preferred

-Proven hunter mentality with the ability to develop new business and grow territory sales

-Strong communication negotiation and relationship-building skills

-Self-motivated and capable of managing a regional territory independently

-Technical aptitude and ability to learn industrial sealing applications and products

-Experience navigating plant environments turnaround schedules and industrial procurement processes preferred

-Valid drivers license and ability to meet customer site access requirements

Your day typically starts by prioritizing plant touchpoints and follow-ups tied to active opportunities in fluid sealing. Youll spend time on the road visiting sites aligning with maintenance teams engineers buyers plant managers and executive leadership and confirming whats needed ahead of upcoming work windows. Between stops youll prospect by phone and email document next steps and coordinate timing with customer schedules. Afternoons often include networking meetings and focused time mapping target accounts reviewing open quotes and planning the next round of visits so your industrial gasketing pipeline stays healthy and predictable.

- Base pay: $85000 to $120000 plus KPI bonus
- Medical Dental Vision
- KLINGER GPI covers 100% of the premium for dental and vision insurance and two of the four available medical plans
- Company covers 50% of eligible premium for medical dental and vision for dependents
- 401(k): Match: 100% on the first 3% of employee contributions; 50% on the next 2%
- Health Savings Account (HSA): For eligible high-deductible plans company contributes $37 per pay period
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Paid Time Off
- Vehicle Allowance
- Life Insurance: $15000 policy provided at no cost to the employee

Required Experience:

IC