Sales Associate
Purpose:
The Sales Associate role will have a significant impact on the sales team's success by clearing the path for the sales reps to effectively sell by supporting the field sales team in a variety of administrative, creative and technical capacities.Core Responsibilities:
- Respond to initial sales leads; pre-qualify, and engage field sales for appropriate follow-up.
- Assist in the coordination and scheduling of prospect interactions, including demonstrations, presentations, discovery calls; attend, write draft sales process letters (CCS-based), update SalesForce.com (SFDC) data in a timely manner.
- Preparation and maintenance of demonstration of system for Concerro field Sales team
- Coordinate meetings and “trip building” for (2) senior sales reps.
- Set up calls for senior sales reps to prepare references, takes notes and produces summary for rep review prior to sending to prospect
- Lead Company response to RFPs, contracts, proposals and other materials.
- At times, set up and conduct initial web demonstrations of products with potential clients.
- Assist in the customization of marketing-created client specific presentations in MS PowerPoint.
- Consult with marketing team as needed to ensure that key marketing messages are being used in proposals.
- Creates and implements sales productivity tools. Ensures sales process adoption and compliance
- Coordinate private dinners at trade shows and local industry events, as needed.
- Maintains internal documentation for the sales team.
- Assist in the development of a formalized training plan with competency check offs for new reps.
- Proactively identifies opportunities for process improvement..
- Coordinate with the Marketing team as sales liaison for various campaigns to target corporate clients.
- Support field sales reps by fielding questions and acting as back-up when they are on the road.
- Proactively anticipates client requests and responds to questions.
- Seeks and identifies areas of cross selling opportunity with new clients.
The Ideal Candidate:
- A clinical background in nursing or scheduling is highly desirable.
- A Bachelor degree strongly preferred
- An understanding of healthcare staffing challenges and comparative software solutions.
- A demonstrated proficiency in research, utilizing the internet and preparing presentations.
- Demonstrated independent working and decision making skills
- Strong analytical and administrative capabilities.
- A client focused attitude.
- Strong team building and relationship management abilities.
- Ability to communicate with high level executives and other key stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
- The talent to develop relationships via telephone and conduct web-based presentations
- Strong desire for promotion within our growing sales organization.
- Local San Diego candidates preferred as the position will spend 75-90% at the corporate office in Sorrento Valley.
Career Path:
A successful sales associate will be groomed to grow into a field sales associate and above through continued learning of clientele, industry knowledge and sales techniques. The anticipated time in this position is 18-24 months.Interested and qualified candidates should email their resume named YourLastName.doc in Word format to careers@concerro.com. Please put the job title in the subject line.