Detroit Michigan Outside Sales Representative (Detroit)

Outside Sales Representative

Location:

Detroit, Michigan and surrounding areas

Opportunity:

The Next Luxury outside representative will be responsible for driving top-line sales growth through the development of relationships, trainings, creating product awareness, and securing & maintaining display space in our distribution network showrooms and A&D community. The primary focus will be to build relationships across multiple audiences, including showroom staff, purchasing staff, Managers, Owners of showrooms and design firms resulting in a market share and sales increase.

Specific Responsibilities Develop relationships & maintain relationships throughout our dealer network: Foster individual relationships with managers and sales staff Help our manufacturers organize social/training events for our showrooms and design community. Be able to train new and current salespeople on our products. Make sure all salespeople have the most current catalogs and selling tools. Develop valuable insights to understand the value chain and what drives purchase decisions. Calling on the Architectural and design community to create product awareness.

Strong presentation skills to represent the brands in a variety of engagements Clearly articulate unique selling propositions Develop deep understanding of the brand’s architecture. Develop detailed knowledge of all product lines and features.

Skills/Requirements Bachelor’s degree in interior design, Business, Marketing, or Economics from a four-year college or university preferred. Must have a minimum of 5+ years outside sales experience, with strong preference given to experience in Decorative Building Products. Must have strong presentation and public speaking skills.

Travel Requires some overnight travel. Requires car.

Salary Salary commensurate with experience 401(k) with matching Health benefits