Overview
The Area Sales Manager position will provide business development, sales and technical service to customers and potential customers throughout his/her area.
Interfaces•Position will report to the Regional Vice President or Regional Area Sales Manager.
•Position will interface with (internal and external)
+ Internal - Marketing, technical operations, operations, Paragon, technical coworkers, and upper management
+ External - Owner agencies, consulting engineers, contractors, suppliers of materials for products, universities, and industry associations.
Responsibilities
•Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedules to call on existing or potential customers.
•Focuses sales efforts by being a resource and studying existing and potential customer's business model.
•Keeps management informed by submitting activity reports (bi-weekly basis), work plans, and monthly/annual territory analyses.
•Provides historical records by maintaining records on area and customer sales.
•Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, etc.
•Recommends changes in products, service, and policy by evaluating results and competitive developments based on regional strategies.
•Resolve customer complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; preparing reports; making recommendations to management.
•Assist the Ergon's Technical Marketing Manager to identify, coordinate, participate, and support the establishing and maintaining of relationships with key state, district, and local specifying agencies' personnel.
•Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional and industry associations.
•Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
•Takes ownership of the business in his/her area.
•Provides communication to operations on forecasting and current status on volume.
•Additional expectations for specific territory listed above:
•Servicing these emulsion customers will include visits to all levels of the key customers. This includes senior management, project estimators, project managers, and project foremen.
•Servicing the Counties/Cities will include visits to all levels within the County/City Government structure such as Supervisors/Councilmen, Road Managers, County/City Engineers and County crews performing work.
•Assisting Ergon's Technical Marketing Manager in maintaining relationships with the agency contacts in their area.
Qualifications
•Bachelor's Degree specific to marketing or business preferred.
•Industry Knowledge Desired
•Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Physical Requirements
•Ability to sit or stand for long periods of time and able to bend, stoop and kneel as needed.
•Able to wear proper PPE when required.
•Excellent oral and written communication skills.
•Requires working in office conditions, performing some clerical work, working periodically outside in a manufacturing plant environment, with and around operational process equipment in temperature extremes for periods of time.
•Able to work around asphalt and other related chemicals on an ongoing basis.
•Able to provide job site and field support of projects.
•Able and willing to travel for business needs. The travel expectation for this position is 2 nights on average per week.
Associated Asphalt is an equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
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