Telesales Representative

Telesales Representative

We're hiring Telesales Representatives for a growing marketing and advertising company that partners with major national brands like T-Mobile, UHG, Apple, and other well-known companies. This is a high-volume outbound calling role where you'll connect with businesses across the country and help secure advertising placements for client campaigns. Unlike traditional telemarketing, you're not selling products directly to consumers. Instead, you're reaching out to business owners and managers to offer paid advertising partnerships. For example, you might call a restaurant, retail store, or gas station and explain that one of the organization's clients would like to place promotional materials at their location in exchange for compensation.

This role is heavily phone-based, with an expectation of about 100+ outbound dials per day. Most conversations are relatively short, ranging from 30 seconds to a few minutes. Success comes from building rapport quickly, speaking confidently, navigating objections, and identifying the right decision-maker. You'll spend your day:

• Making outbound calls to businesses nationwide
• Explaining advertising partnership opportunities
• Securing participation agreements from business owners and managers
• Tracking activity in Salesforce
• Following up with previous partners and cold prospects
• Working toward daily goals of approximately 10 successful agreements

Pay: $20/hour: Less than 6 months of relevant experience $21-$22/hour: 1-2 years of relevant experience $23-$24/hour: 2+ years of recent outbound calling, telesales, collections, or high-volume call center experience

Skills: call center, outbound calls, telesales

Additional Skills & Qualifications: Previous outbound calling, telesales, call center, customer service, or inside sales experience. Strong verbal communication Comfortable handling objections and rejection professionally. Basic computer proficiency and ability to navigate multiple applications simultaneously. Experience working with CRM systems, preferably Salesforce. Ability to work independently while maintaining productivity standards. Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Expert Level

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Minneapolis, MN.

The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $24.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in Minneapolis, MN.

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 28, 2026.

TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.