Assistant Sales Manager

Description:

The Assistant Sales Manager manages a group of estimators tasked with providing quotes to specifications and to design parameters as required. This person is responsible for accuracy of cost, pricing, quote distribution, review of quote status for order entry after being sent to customer, accountable for planning and coordinating, marketing efforts, directing aggressive sales, and growth of sale into new markets. The Assistant Sales Manager coordinates policies as it pertains to procedures as they apply to product, training of new estimators; and assists in customer service as it pertains to field issues or any customer need. This is to be accomplished in a manner which increases the overall success of Valmont’s Sign Structure Division.

Essential Functions:

• Manage estimators to provide accurate pricing for projects
• Develop and maintain competitive awareness and accurate market share to the extent information is available
• Timely and accurate reporting of competitive field information, attitudes, and trends of the sign structure market with directions for new product development, and geographical expansion
• Handle delicate customer sales using sound judgment in his/her decisions in order to gain customer satisfaction while protecting the Company interest
• Maintain appropriate professional competencies, certifications, licenses, etc., necessary to perform job.
• Make management aware of any training needs you have, consulting management if you are being asked to perform work for which you are not trained and/or are not comfortable doing because of potential risk implications.