• Job Description

  Req#: 79702

  Job Details

  Job Location: Plymouth - PLY (4) - Plymouth, MN

  Education Level: None

  Salary Range: $23.00 - $25.00 Hourly

  Job Shift: 1st Shift

  Job Category: Sales

  Description

  Looking for stability, consistency and the opportunity to take that next step in your career? Are you a driven sales professional who enjoys relationship building and client development, and wants to make a positive impact on people’s lives? Look no further!

  J.H. Larson Company is an independent distributor of Electrical, Plumbing, HVAC and DataComm products with 7 locations in Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. We remain dedicated to our employees, customers and vendors, and are in our 92nd year of business and positioned to make 2024 our best year yet!

  We have a great opportunity to join our team as a Counter Sales Representative in Plymouth, MN. This is an on-site position that will provide quotes, sales and service, and will work with internal and external customers to ensure company goals are met and long-term positive customer relationships are cultivated.

  What’s In It for You?

  No weekends!

  PTO and 9 paid holidays, plus your birthday

  Highly competitive benefits package

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • Life insurance
  • Health Savings Account with Employer Match
  • Critical Illness & Accident Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program

  Responsibilities

  • Work effectively as a team with JHL management and all JHL personnel.
  • Maintain effective relationships with suppliers and customers.
  • Promote and maintain the image and reputation of JHL, ensuring customer satisfaction with top quality customer service.
  • Participate in market planning and the implementation of marketing strategies.
  • Provide feedback on pricing, service, new products, quality, customer needs and competition to the appropriate departments within JHL.
  • Participate in sales meetings and training as requested.
  • Initiate customer contact as required and requested, performing timely follow-up of inquiries and quotation requests.
  • Assist customers with product selection, pricing and shipping requirements.
  • Oversee order entry, submittal, shipping, expediting and billing processes on project jobs.
  • Provide feedback on purchasing requirements, product code descriptions, inventory levels and related activities.
  • Responsible for meeting or exceeding sales and gross profit objectives.
  • Provide customer service including order entry, expediting, follow-up and other sales tasks required.
  • Develop quotations for customers within corporate profit objectives and guidelines.
  • Inform the Branch Manager of in-house inventory discrepancies and unusually large orders.
  • Provide accurate, timely information as requested.
  • Understand method of payment options available to customers, i.e.: open account, cash and credit card.
  • Advise customers of problems as they arise in a timely manner and assist with mutually agreeable resolutions.

  Qualifications

  
  

  • High school diploma or equivalent education required.
  • Minimum 2 years of related experience in wholesale/distribution/retail sales.
  • Background in customer service
  • Warehouse/shipping/receiving experience preferred
  • Proficient computer skills.
  • Solid math and computer skills.
  • Strong oral and written communications skills.
  • Self-motivated and self-starter.
  • Ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and collaborate within a multi-functional team.
  • Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
  • Detail oriented, organized, consistent and tenacious.

  This position will require frequent: bending/stooping, squatting, climbing, crouching, reaching above, kneeling, pushing/pulling, and occasionally lifting up to 50lbs throughout the working shift (the buddy system is highly recommended). Vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust and focus.

  Why wait? Check out our website: www.jhlarson.com to learn more about us and our products, and while you’re there, contact us at jhlcareers@jhlarson.com to learn more about this opportunity and how you can be a part of a team who wants you to be successful!

  We are an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

• About the company

  The company currently is an active member of some 14 plus professional trade and industry associations. Management and our employees are proud to be supporters of local community projects, like being a major construction product supplier to area Habita...

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