Sales / Warehouse Job Description
Sales / Warehouse Duties & Responsibilities
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Sales / Warehouse Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Sales / Warehouse
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Education for Sales / Warehouse
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Skills for Sales / Warehouse
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Sales / Warehouse Examples
Sales / Warehouse Job Description
- Bachelor's degree or applicable Warehouse experience (1-2 years)
- Must be able to work flexible 2nd/3rd shift hours, including weekends
- Must possess a winning attitude and ability to work with little or no supervision
- Pull back orders and orders for will-call customers
- Order entry of previous day onsite inventory of each use point
- Communicate by phone and in person with customers, sales staff, store managers and others, inquiring about and providing information on cost, ordering and delivery times, Establish and maintain good customer relations
- Advise customer on tools, hardware, and materials needed, and procedure to follow to complete tasks customer wishes to perform
- Receive customer phone calls
- Drive sales through the effective use of up-selling, competitive pricing and superior customer service that meets each customer’s unique set of delivery and installation requirements
- Keep damaged merchandise to a minimum and follow inventory control procedures
- Performs various product order duties such as entering customer orders, creating plant/RDC orders, and completing stock replenishment orders
- Waits on customers and prepare sales slips
- Trains and provides assistance to CSR’s and warehouse associates
- Performs a variety of warehouse duties such as pull/assemble customer orders, check outbound orders for accuracy/completeness, inventory stock checks, restock and label vendor product, maintain displays (tools, caulk, ), move, store, and replenish material, and conduct daily cycle counts
- Performs receiving duties such as receive and unload inbound material, process inbound shipments, stock material, process customer returns and notify management of damaged shipments for freight claims
- Maintains clean and organized facility by sweeping, trash removal
Sales / Warehouse Job Description
- Pursue new business and develop key existing accounts by analyzing opportunities, identifying key personnel, and developing strong business relationships via cold calls, presentations, and following up on leads for new business
- Develop warehouse sales strategies, proposals, and forecasts
- Maximize the sale of warehouse products such as rack, mezzanines, and ancillary equipment
- Assume responsibility for large warehouse solutions projects initiated by sales staff
- Generate new business through internally provided leads, prospecting, and networking
- Prepare warehouse solutions sales forecasts, and assist in development of warehouse solutions sales strategies, proposals, and presentations
- Identify, recommend, and conduct appropriate warehouse solutions training to develop the sales staff
- Communicate with associated product vendors
- Assist in defining specifications for customer applications
- Close sales to meet quotas for warehouse products
- Ability to frequently move items under 75 lbs
- Prior experience in distribution or warehousing preferred
- Good interpersonal skills and customer service attitude
- Follow and carry out instructions with minimal supervision
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal, and computer skills including MS Office programs
- Three to six months of related sales/retail/customer service experience
Sales / Warehouse Job Description
- Set and authorize delivery dates based on knowledge of delivery schedules and staffing levels
- Ensure accurate computer transactions
- Possess ability to overcome objections or concerns of potential customers by utilizing technical expertise
- Maintain and convey all relevant competitive sales knowledge directly to the Branch Manager for dissemination to the Outside Sales Representatives
- Handle incoming customer complaints in a prompt and courteous manner
- Sales and meeting desired goals
- Communicate daily with management and other sales staff
- Data entry / ability to learn accounting system
- Strong attention to detail and motivated
- Identify issues with PO's, pricing, quantity, stock
- Vacation after January 1st Year 1= 3 days and 1 personal
- System Economics
- Maintain general housekeeping duties within the warehouse including
- Associate degree, preferably in business management, marketing, entrepreneurship, professional selling, or related business program, or equivalent experience
- Warehouse product knowledge and previous sales experience strongly preferred
- Experience in the building material distribution industry would be an asset
Sales / Warehouse Job Description
- Moving product and operating a forklift
- Loading / unloading inventory
- Delivering / picking up product to and from local locations, occasionally
- Keep warehouse organized and clean
- Driving a Heieck Supply truck and operating it safely in compliance with company rules and applicable laws and regulations
- Verify and manually load orders on outgoing trucks / customer vehicles
- Pull and prepare orders for customer pick-up at our Contractor Sales Counter
- Attention to detail, timeliness and accuracy is a must
- Educating yourself and/or customer on product to answer inquiries
- Writing orders from small will call items to large commercial quotes
- Forklift certification would be an asset
- Ability to look for opportunities to improve customer service orientation through better understanding and empathy for the customer experience
- Forklift Experience of at least a year
- Submit to Drug and Background Screen
- Have a Clean DMV Print-out
- Have a resume on file with our office
Sales / Warehouse Job Description
- Driving forklift/assisting in putting away stock and unloading freight
- Help out where ever else needed as requested by manager
- Accurately completes all required paperwork (e.g., coding, costing, pricing, daily cash summary, bank deposits, ) on a timely basis
- Receives payment for merchandise or services sold and enters sale into the computer
- Accurately performs data entry of sales orders to generate an invoice of products ordered to be picked up or delivered
- Expert Furniture range knowledge
- Knowledge of working with principles & guidelines of layout as a tool
- Computer literacy with a good working knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Competence in Bin Planning
- Be a dynamic, action oriented team player that is self-motivated and confident in ‘making it happen’ by working with others
- 401K with match (5 -% match up to 5%)
- Receiving, unpacking, verifying and recording incoming merchandise or material
- Using equipment or machinery to assist with shipping or receiving such as electric pallet jacks and forklifts
- Counter sales, customer service
- Load/unload
- Must have a High School diploma or equivelent (GED)