Job Description

As Field Sales Representative, your duties will include:

• Initiate sales process promoting service, products, equipment, and capabilities for multiple product lines
• Work with customers to identify needs, create solutions, and ensure a smooth sales process
• Provide accurate reporting and feedback contributing to attaining sales goals and plan attainment
• Identify business opportunities to maintain sales goals and provides in-depth knowledge of competitors and suppliers to management
• Maintain customer service relationship with customer throughout the process regarding any questions and assistance needed
• Prepare and present media presentations using PowerPoint to prospective clients
• Develop expertise in building top-producing sales contracts through strategic marketing, tactical sales, and key account management
• Track all sales activity, contacts, and history in CRM system
• Establish and maintain relationships with key decision makers and customers
• Develop new accounts and penetrated accounts where previous Representatives may have been unsuccessful

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive to selected homes using a company-provided vehicle, with frequent travel (up to 50%)
• Conduct in-person interviews and recruit statistically selected households
• Collect and enter household demographics and technical data
• Collaborate with various departments to ensure compliance with procedures
• Meet performance goals, quality standards, and customer satisfaction targets
• Be prepared for overnight stays up to half of your working time

What are the qualifications?

• High School Diploma/GED OR 2+ years equivalent work experience
• Valid driver's license and satisfactory driving record
• Strong computer skills (iOS, MS Windows, Google applications)
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills
• Ability to read and write English
• Ability to work non-traditional hours, including evenings and weekends
• Willingness and ability to travel overnight up to 50% of the time
• Adaptability and openness to diverse environments:
• Due to the nature of randomly selected panel homes, you must be willing and able to interact with diverse people, neighborhoods, and conditions of homes for several hours at a time.
• Be prepared to encounter varying situations, which may include a variety of pets, as well as different levels of cleanliness or disarray that meet Nielsen's health and safety standards.
• Comfort with working in various home environments while maintaining professionalism
• Strong interpersonal skills to navigate diverse social situations effectively

Physical Requirements:

• Must be willing and able (with or without reasonable accommodation) to be outside, in all weather conditions recruiting preselected residential addresses.
• Be able to navigate stairs, elevators, walkways, and driveways (paved and unpaved) and a wide variety of entrances into people’s homes
• Driving for up to 8 hours a day
• Standing for up to 6 hours a day
• Kneeling for up to 2 hours a day
• Ability to walk 1/2 mile
• Ability to lift 20 lbs.

Additional Information

Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, company provided car for those who qualify, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.

A reasonable estimated salary range for a new employee has been provided. It would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location. The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.

Nielsen makes hiring decisions without regard to disability status, protected veteran status, or membership in any other protected class.

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