Area Sales Manager/pbe

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Responsible for leading sales in a defined market towards the achievement of company revenue and profit targets.

Essential Job Duties

• Actively participate and manage new customer acquisitions and current account retention, including customer sales, quoting and resolving customer service issues.
• Develop and implement marketing/sales plans and monitor results.
• Manage all information needed to prepare proposals and/or agreements related to product sales.
• Manage life cycle of customer supply agreements.
• Maintain relationships with key vendors to establish higher buying levels and to reinforce company commitment to increasing market share, leading to additional support from these vendors.
• Be familiar with company product literature and be able to convey product information and availability to customers.
• Manage and support the continual improvement of our company's quality improvement system.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage the work of others, including planning, assigning, scheduling and reviewing work, ensures quality standards. Responsible for hiring, terminating, training and developing, reviewing performance and administering corrective action for staff.

Minimum Requirements

• High School diploma/GED.
• 5+ years of experience.
• For Smelting facilities, experience in the scrap and aluminum market.
• For PBE facilities, experience with sales, management and PBE knowledge.

Preferred Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or college coursework.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Frequent use of Outlook, Word, Excel, graphics, etc. Ability to create, maintain and incorporate functions into Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and Powerpoint presentations to support business objectives.
• Frequently communicates complex information across departments and interacts with management. Can present, resolve and address delicate situations. Can motivate and persuade others.
• Problems are varied and complex, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation. Problems are solved using knowledge and skills, general precedents and practices.
• Decisions impact the management and operations within a department or business unit. May contribute to business and operational decisions that affect the department.
• Provides and sets goals and priorities for functional area. May make recommendations for department policies, practices, and programs. Makes decisions for and/or resolves problems for others.
• Handle multiple tasks or projects simultaneously with moderate complexity.

Essential Physical Demands/Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, as well as to an office environment.
• Should be able to tolerate high and low temperature levels and might be exposed to occasional inclement driving conditions.
• The noise level in some work environments could be moderately loud.
• Travel may be required periodically, including overnight stays (contingent on position requirements).
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.

Benefits:

• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Fertility Coverage
• 401k with Generous Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
• Short-Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts
• PNC Daily Pay Option

Starting Range: 100K - 130K

Join us for an exciting career journey with positive, driven individuals.