Inside Counter Sales

Inside Counter Sales Representative

Ignite your career at Builders FirstSource, America's largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. At BFS, you'll be equipped with all the tools, training, and resources you need, and you'll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons.

The Inside Counter Sales Representative assists customers and contractors by providing quotes and product information, both in person and over the phone, while maintaining the company standards of excellent customer service. They may handle special orders and advanced pricing. This position generates sales by gathering customer's product needs, design specifications and acts as the company liaison between the company and the customer.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Representing the company during the sales process by collecting customer product needs and design specifications over the phone or in person, and acting as liaison between purchasing, inside technical/design staff, production staff and customer.
• Responding to customer inquiries regarding product selection, placement of orders, requests for prices and quotations, complaints and scheduling of deliveries and installations, and providing customer follow-ups.
• Initiating telephone calls to customers to generate sales to achieve a projected sales goal.
• Actively engaging in increasing knowledge of sales techniques and developing product and industry knowledge through attending company training programs.
• Generating sales opportunities through research on client needs, industry competition and learning the features and benefits of company products.
• Providing accurate and complete material take offs of single/multiple family home projects.
• Providing technical assistance to drafting and engineering as required.
• Analyzing and sizing various lumber products using appropriate software.
• Coordinating purchase and delivery of special products.
• Obtaining information on pricing specifications, uses and an availability.
• Coding and inputting customer orders, pricing information and additional data into the computer system.
• Creating accurate and complete invoices, work orders, and sales tickets.
• Maintaining stock levels on the sales floor and in the stockroom.
• Operating and balancing cash register daily.
• Researching credits, returns, and late payments as needed.
• Working with outside sales representatives to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Understanding and observing all safety procedures and practices to prevent injury to self or co-workers; attending periodic safety meetings as required; may recommend changes to improve safety procedures.

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum requirements to perform this job successfully include:

• High School Diploma
• 1-2 years in building material industry with extensive knowledge of product and application.

Competencies include:

• Good interpersonal and customer relations skills and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Knowledge of basic sales techniques and concepts.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Knowledge of business math.
• Knowledge of company products, production processes and product standards.
• Knowledge of building materials, applications, related equipment, and/or construction industry.
• Familiar with inventory and inventory control.
• Ability to operate computer, calculator & cash register.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and an enterprise resource planning (ERP) program.
• Must be able to drive and walk throughout yards, plants, and offices.

Work environment/physical activity includes:

• Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds frequently and on occasion up to 80 pounds.
• Must be able to stand and walk frequently throughout the day.

At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. To view all our benefit offerings, click here.

Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.