Sales Representative

Title: Sales Representative

ID: 278004

Location: Albany, NY

Job Function : Sales

Description

A leading provider of specialized services to the global industrial, commercial and infrastructure markets, BrandSafway delivers access and scaffolding systems, forming and shoring, industrial services and related solutions to more than 32,000 customers worldwide. BrandSafway was formed when Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services and Safway Group combined in 2017. We are a corporation of 35,000 employees with operations in more than 35 countries.

BrandSafway offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance along with a generous 401k plan. The base salary range for this position is $65,000 – $85,000 annually. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position.

At BrandSafway, we know our employees are our greatest asset, which is why we give them the tools, training and resources to be successful. Come join our growing team. We are looking for a Sales Representative to develop $7MM in combined annual construction access work and rental revenue in the Buffalo-Syracuse market over the course of 18 months at a strong profit margin.

Responsibilities

• Take charge of prospecting for bid opportunities in the sales territory.
• Develop relationships with general contractors, construction subcontractors, developers, mechanical contractors, manufacturing facilities, and architects that produce opportunities to bid for and win work.
• Use Salesforce software to identify opportunities to bid for upcoming work; use Salesforce software to accurately document ongoing efforts to bid and win work. Review and qualify leads coming in from Construct Connect and tag them into Salesforce as appropriate.
• Communicate to customers and potential customers how our products can meet their specified needs – and how our products can meet foreseeable needs the customer may not yet have identified.
• “Walk” job sites to gather information necessary to prepare price quotes.
• Working with the sales manager and the construction managers, assemble equipment & material lists, estimate man hours, identify drug testing and orientation requirements, and determine freight requirements for delivery/return; and assemble that information in SafQuote to create price quotes for submittal to customers.
• Working with the branch contracts manager, usher new contracts through the BrandSafway contracting process.
• Working with the project controls team, ensure billing is rapid and accurate and that change orders for extra work are captured promptly for billing.
• Be on hand at job sites as new jobs get underway so that construction crews have clear direction.
• Working with the BrandSafway prequalification team, get BrandSafway prequalified with new customers and get us on bidder lists for upcoming work.
• Assess bid opportunities for “upsell” potential for the full range of BrandSafway access products — Quikdeck, HAKI, mast climbers, construction elevators, sidewalk protection, trash chutes, loading docks, shoring, etc.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in scaffold and work access sales, particularly contracts involving labor.
• Prior experience cost estimating scaffold and work access projects.
• Prior experience with Salesforce in a construction configuration.
• Prior construction industry experience.
• An engineering, drafting, or construction estimating background.
• Intermediate or better capability with Microsoft Excel.
• Direct hands-on experience as a scaffold builder or foreman.
• Membership in Buffalo-Rochester area construction industry associations.
• Existing customer relationships in the Buffalo-Rochester area.

BrandSafway, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, religion, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, special disabled or Vietnam or other era veteran status.

Notice to all potential job candidates:

Please be advised that BrandSafway will never require or ask for any fee from you in exchange for being considered, hired, promoted, transferred or having ongoing employment with us. It is a violation of our Code of Conduct if any employee requests any money or fee from you in exchange for any special treatment or consideration. If anyone, regardless whether an existing employee, or anyone else, requests payment of any fee in exchange for being hired into our company, you may confidentially contact our HR Compliance department at hrcompliance@brandsafway.com and provide the name of the individual and any other documentation or proof of such an act.