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Sales Trainee/Product Specialist

UFP Industries

Sales Trainee/Product Specialist

Riverside, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    GENERAL SUMMARY

    A Sales Trainee is the life blood of our company. You will get to learn all facets of business as you prepare for a lucrative, rewarding career in sales. We at UFP cultivate an amazing culture that works hard, plays hard and we believe our best relationships happen after 5:00pm. If you love the idea of working directly with your customers, have an entrepreneurial spirit and are not afraid of hard work, let's talk. Oh, and this is a career job not just a resume filler.

    The responsibilities of a Sales Trainee/Product Specialist are the following: • PRICE PAGES

    • Develop, maintain and disseminate price pages on assigned product lines

    • BE AN EXPERT ON THE PRODUCT LINE(S)

    • Through training, self-study and practical application become an expert on the assigned product line(s).
    • Be able to educate, train and promote the product with co-workers, distributors and end users.
    • Build trust and confidence in the product, brand and supplier.

    • INTERACT WITH CUSTOMERS AND CONSUMERS

    • o Perform product knowledge seminars at customer locations and via webinars
    • o Attend customer and industry events to promote product lines.

    • PULL-THROUGH SALES

    • o By working with retail yard, salespeople, specifiers and end users convert competitor product lines to our brands.
    • o Utilize marketing to generate appropriate contractors.
    • o Develop and Maintain an email and phone database of UFP customers in HubSpot

    • HAVE MARKET KNOWLEDGE

    • o Know and be able to speak to the competitive products in the marketplace.
    • o Have knowledge of technical differences.
    • o Be aware of competitive pricing.

    • MARKETING

    • o Maintain inventory of marketing materials.

     BROCHURES, INSTALLATION MANUALS, PRICE PAGES.

    • o Advise and achieve placement of displays and signage at customer locations.
    • o Maintain displays and literature supplies at customer locations.

     WORK WITH CUSTOMERS AND UFP PERSONNEL TO DEVELOP CUSTOMIZED OR NEW DISPLAYS AS NEEDED.

    • o Assure that all marketing supplies have UFP contact information.
    • o Make sure that any catalogs or pricing at customer locations is up to date.
    • o Attend customer and trade shows as needed.

    • JOINT SALES CALLS

    • o Work with UFP Account managers to engage and close on prospective new sales opportunities.

    • INVENTORY INSPECTION / PRODUCT CULL

    • o Inspect inventory at customer locations and advise of any issue with damage or slow sales.

    • TRAVEL

    • o Be able to travel in assigned territory.
    • o Be available to travel to vendor locations for training.
    • • Be literate in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint

     

     

    Company Description

    UFP Industries is a multibillion-dollar holding company with subsidiaries around the globe that serve three markets: retail, industrial and construction. We have been publicly traded (Nasdaq: UFPI) since 1993 and are headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We’re powered by hard-working people who value integrity in everything they do, who look for opportunity around every corner, and who enjoy a culture that demands accountability, expects mutual respect and provides opportunities for personal and professional growth..