Now Hiring - Manufacturing Outside Sales Representative in Knoxville, TN

COMPONENT FABRICATORS INC. is looking for a highly motivated Outside Sales Representative for our Metal Fabrications Operation.

The full-time Sales Representative will pursue outside sales with the goal of obtaining new business that aligns with CFI’s production capabilities: CNC Tube Bending, Welding & Fabrication, CNC Routing, CNC Plasma/Laser cutting. The Sales Rep will be responsible for growing and maintaining CFI’s business by seeking and developing new customers. The Sales Rep will coordinate all the associated sales and customer service activities for new and existing accounts, within the CFI business unit.

Position Responsibilities:

• Consulting on product development, explaining product features to customers during live demonstrations & negotiating contract terms.
• Serves customers by identifying their needs & engineering adaptations of products for outsourcing. Represent CFI as an expert in production capabilities and solutions.
• Identifies markets of current & future customer requirements by establishing target product sectors.
• Develop & implement a strategic CFI market strategy, & readily execute the plan.
• Develop & expand the customer & prospect base via cold calling, lead generation, etc.
• Meet sales goals as determined by the CFI President
• Attend engineering & production meetings as required by the CFI Operations Manager
• Ability to prepare & give technical presentations to explain to customers how CFI products & services be a cost saving solution.
• Submits and manages orders by conferring with customer service staff & cost engineering.

Job Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Metal component & fabrication sales experience a must
• Ability to read & understand fabricated metal & engineering specifications and prints.
• Excellent writing & verbal skills
• Ability to communicate clearly with tech & non-tech personnel.
• Must be able to travel at least 20-30%
• Problem solving with groups of technical / engineering / processing groups.
• Marketing skills, be able to build a customer base.
• Selling to customer needs and offering solutions.
• Software requirements, Microsoft office, Cad knowledge preferred, presentation tools.
• Innovation of new products.

Preference will be given to those who have experience in negotiating long term contracts of mid to high volume fabrications & assemblies.

Competitive salary plus commission. Full benefits package offered.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $42,383.73 - $127,667.95 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Commission pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Knoxville, TN 37909: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Do you have the ability to read and understand fabricated metal and engineering specifications?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Metal Component, Fabrication Sales: 3 years (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 50% (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Knoxville, TN 37909