Sales Representative

Essential Functions

• Travel to client locations.
• Develop ongoing relationships with clients (firms and individuals) to ensure Brand awareness, product familiarity, and ensure "first look" consideration for project involvement and specification opportunities.
• Entertainment clients by way of: meals, events, and involvement in industry functions.
• Present new Maharam products to clients specifying interior finishes via EASIER acronym.
• Handle specific product/project involvement with specifying clients, end-users, and buying customers.
• Provide product information (both aesthetic and functional) and developing strategy for pricing, navigating all delivery aspects, product suitability, and "need by" dates.
• Maintain resource library for sampled clients…replacement of missing sampling and removal of NLA and merchandising of Maharam sampling to the best advantage in all resource libraries.
• Supervise inside sales support of sales coordinator.
• Maintain client data base management.

• Magnitude and relationship reporting
• This position reports to Manager, Regional Sales and may receive additional assignments and direction from VP, Sales.
• Contacts inside and outside the organization

This position has contact with specifying clients, purchasing customers, and end-users; Yaphank departments including: resource management, QA, credit, and key client services; sales management, and local sales reps and sales coordinators in other offices as needed for project follow-up.

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to connect with people via both one-on-one and group interaction. Social and engaging.
• Comfortable entertaining clients away from their place of work.
• Articulate and effective communicator. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Ability to handle problem resolution smartly and with confidence; such as price, delivery, OA, or installation problems.
• Organized and able to multi task and retain and understand high level of product, project, client, and process information.
• Desire to work as part of a team.
• Ability to work to Maharam protocol and process, without direct supervision.
• Computer savvy with working knowledge of MS Office including outlook, and Word; and ability to learn DON and various Maharam specific computer functions.

Education and Experience

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent, degree in Interior Design is preferred.
• Sales experience preferred but not required.

Who We Hire?

• In general, MillerKnoll positions are closed within 45 days and are open for applications for a minimum of 5 days.
• We encourage our prospective candidates to submit their application(s) expediently so as not to miss out on our opportunities.
• We frequently post new opportunities and encourage prospective candidates to check back often for new postings.