Inside Sales Representative - Environmental Services

The Inside Sales Representative is responsible for incremental revenue through inbound and outbound sales calls. This includes leading campaigns and telephone prospecting targeting SQG (small quantity generators), existing customers and new prospects.

• Conducts business needs analysis and develops appropriate service solutions for the customer/prospect.

• Focuses sales activities on value-added services, compliance initiatives, and other revenue generating activities.

• Makes outbound and receives inbound sales calls for potentially new and/or existing customers to sell our products and/or services. Acquires new customers and converts existing customers through prospecting in assigned territory, outbound marketing/lead campaigns and referrals

• Effectively qualify clients through the use of Value-Based selling methods. Researches customer/prospect history and business needs in order to develop a complete service proposal, while targeting upgrade and cross-sell opportunities of additional products/services. Sell the value of the recommended solution, and retain/up-sell revenue if possible.

• Builds a pipeline of potential future business by prospecting via the Internet, assigned territory lists, outbound marketing/lead campaigns and other sources as identified.

• Work with cross functional team members including transportation, billing, collections, sales, and customer experience departments to assist in providing satisfactory solutions from the customer perspective in order to retain business, and leverage communication from other departments to identify sales opportunities.

• Effectively uses technology based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool for lead follow-up, sale cycle disposition, pipeline management, forecasting and lost opportunity tracking. 

• Provide tracking data to the SQ sales organization to assist in developing policies and programs to help drive sales. Identify sales trends when possible and provide management with updates.

• Education equivalent to Bachelor’ s Degree in sales or marketing preferred, demonstrating good knowledge of business processes and order entry systems. Or Bachelor’ s degree in other related field, with previous sales and/or marketing experience. Or two or more years of outbound sales experience, or the equivalent in related work experience, demonstrating the ability to manage and develop existing and prospective accounts.

• Must have experience with customer relations and support as well as exhibit leadership abilities.

• Demonstrates general knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and contract management software.

• Demonstrates the desire and ability to learn company billing/customer database software in addition to learning the features of all company services and products and different levels of account options.