Associate Representative - Inside Sales

**Responsibilities**
- Increases orders by suggesting related items, explaining features, and checks customer’s buying history.
- With guidance, owns, qualifies and develops opportunities passed from marketing, outside sales, and national accounts.
- Prepares, generates, and follows up on verbal or written quotations to secure orders, or determine reason for loss of order.
- Reviews open customer order reports and act on open items, including those items that may be at risk in meeting customer’s promised delivery date.
- Maintains distribution system backorder report, associated customer expediting report and notices, and customer notification.
- Reports industry trends, competitive pricing and customer feedback to management.
**Qualifications**
- High School Degree or Equivalent required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Preferred knowledge and experience in sales and sales administration; still acquiring higher level knowledge and skills, however still a prod...