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Inside Sales May 16, 2025

XV11

Located in Dolomite, AL

Job Full Description

Job Summary: A family-owned company in the Birmingham area is looking for inside sales help! 

Here's What Your Day-to-Day Looks Like:

Customer Focus
•    Provide a positive customer experience that instills confidence and comfort in every transaction.
•    Exceed expectations by providing superior customer service to increase customer attraction and retention.
•    Offer a timely response to requests for price quotes, order inquiries, adjustments, returns, and cancellations.
•    Nurture customer relationships to ensure proper support.
•    Utilize our customer relationship management (CRM) system to maintain complete call records, and valid customer/account information, to support increased product sales goals.
•    Coordinate delivery times with production to achieve customer satisfaction if normal lead times are not adequate.
•    Collect market data to create and analyze reports resulting in gross margin management 
•    Relate to diverse customers in an inclusive manner.
•    Know your customer well enough to understand their thresholds and anticipate their inquiries.
•    Be a Mazzella Companies’ ambassador.
Results Driven
•    Utilize the ERP system to prepare/follow-up on quotes, enter orders, resolve inquiries, and coordinate order fulfillment with production.
•    Plan/Organize/Coordinate to pre-qualify larger opportunities with management.
•    Maximize profitably while securing the sale.
•    Work to exceed sales/activity goals.
•    Collaborate with the team to maximum results.
•    Qualify/Propose/Close incoming web service requests.
•    Act with a sense of urgency on internal/external customer feedback/requests.
Collaboration - Internal
•    Serve as a liaison with outside sales, purchasing and operations to expedite orders and meet delivery dates.
•    Participate in account specific/special product project opportunities.
•    Collaborate with purchasing on transfer orders/product needs to fulfill orders.
•    Utilize the CRM to share account information with Outside Sales and internal business partners.
•    Provide new customer leads to Outside Sales via the CRM system.
•    Learn about other products/solutions from business unit leaders to recognize/develop opportunities.
Collaboration - External
•    Obtain information from suppliers regarding pricing/specifications to complete/execute on project deliverables.
•    Report/Discuss customer issues, opportunities, and threats with appropriate company leaders.
•    Update/Retain order activity like change notices, scheduling changes, partial shipments, and credit holds.
•    Proactively source alternative products from different vendors to meet customer’s needs.
Follows Up
•    Follow up on quotes within the CRM system.
•    Expedite material from suppliers to meet customer needs.
•    Perform post-sale customer satisfaction follow up.
Sales Acumen
•    Effectively utilize our Six Step Selling Process.
•    Understand/Promote our unique selling proposition (One Mazzella approach) to our customers.
•    Upsell/Cross-sell products to enhance a customer’s application.
•    Make outbound calls to generate more business from your customer base.
•    Assist Outside Sales after qualifying an opportunity during the information gathering stage.
•    Offer company-wide promotions when applicable.
•    Process customer orders on open account, cash, check, and credit card transactions.
•    Enter and expedite orders into our ERP system.
Technical Aptitude
•    Know our products well enough to match them with the customer’s application.
•    Ride along with Outside Sales on an agreed upon basis.
•    Understand testing standards
•    Apply information gathered to the customer’s application.
•    Effectively utilize software applications (ERP system, CRM, MS Office, etc.).
Detail Oriented
•    Ensure that internal customer service processes are followed as designed.
•    Follow business processes according to the customer’s expectations and contract stipulations.
•    Hold yourself accountable to meeting deadlines and due dates.
•    Have an emphasis on quality, accuracy, expertise, and competency.

Education:
 
A high school diploma or GED is required. A military background, a community college degree, or trade school accreditation works as well for this position
 
An undergraduate degree from an accredited college/university with a focus in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Marketing, or related discipline is encouraged. In the absence of a degree, directly related job experience serving in strategic account management and industrial sales role. Years of experience, and proven knowledge, may offset the degree requirement
 
Inside Sales Experience & Skills
A minimum of three to five years of customer service, professional account management, and/or industrial sales with proven record of meeting/exceeding sales goals
 
Required Skills
•    Accomplished at building/maintaining effective customer relationships within different organizations to meet/exceed established goals for product and services sales
•    Proven active listening, written, and verbal communication skills
•    Demonstrated ability to work with internal/external customers providing exceptional customer service
•    Previous experience in customer service or industrial sales
•    Demonstrated math skills
•    Proven overall PC literacy (Microsoft Office)
Preferred Skills
•    Strong analytical, conceptual, and planning skills
•    Demonstrated mechanical aptitude
•    Possess a continuous improvement mindset
•    Demonstrated organizational abilities and experience utilizing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for business information tracking
•    Experience working with a formal sales process model
Must successfully complete a criminal background check, physical, drug screen and E-verify
 
Why Team Members join:
•    Team-oriented environment
•    A real Work life/ Home life balance
•    Growth and Development Opportunities including a Lifelong Learning Career Path
•    Humble, Hungry, Smart Culture
•    Market Competitive Salaries
•    Free Virtual Doctor visits with $0 copay (Teledoc)
•    Tuition Reimbursement


Core Values:
Be Safe – personal commitment to all stakeholder’s well-being; purposeful control of risk
Be a Lifelong Learner – routinely acquire new skills and capabilities that bring value
Be Humble – lack excessive ego or concerns about status; emphasize the Team over self
Be Hungry – always looking for more, self-motivated, and diligent; do more than to just get by, committed
Be Smart – common sense about people, good judgement, and intuition around their impact on group dynamics

Here's What Makes YOU a Great Fit:

  • Able to physically do the work and meet physical requirements (willing to work outside in the elements, get dirty, deal with smells, etc.)
  • Must have reliable and timely transportation
  • Good work ethic; punctual & dependable; take pride in your work
  • Good teamwork and communication skills
  • Steel toed boots recommended but not required
  • Drug-free; background check

Job Location: Bessemer, AL

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Immediate Benefits of working with Express:

  • Weekly Pay
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
  • 401(K) Savings Plan
  • Holiday Pay
  • Referral Bonuses
  • Employee Assistance Program (counseling & expert advice in many stressful areas)
  • Free Online Training

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