Sales Representative

Candidate must reside on the Southeast coast, preferably within Broward County, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Hollywood. Essential Functions Travel to client locations. Develop ongoing relationships with clients (firms and individuals) to ensure brand awareness, product familiarity, and first look consideration for project involvement and specification opportunities. Entertainment clients by way of meals, events, and involvement in industry functions. Present new Maharam products to clients specifying interior finishes via EASIER acronym. Handle specific product/project involvement with specifying clients, end-users, and buying customers. Provide product information (both aesthetic and functional) and develop strategy for pricing, navigating all delivery aspects, product suitability, and need-by dates. Maintain resource library for sampled clients, replacement of missing sampling, removal of NLA, and merchandising of Maharam sampling to the best advantage in all resource libraries. Supervise inside sales support of sales coordinator. Maintain client database management. Contacts Inside and Outside the Organization This position has contact with specifying clients, purchasing customers, and end-users; Yaphank departments including: resource management, QA, credit, and key client services; sales management, and local sales reps and sales coordinators in other offices as needed for project follow-up. Knowledge and Skills Ability to connect with people via both one-on-one and group interaction. Social and engaging. Comfortable entertaining clients away from their place of work. Articulate and effective communicator. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal. Ability to handle problem resolution smartly and with confidence; such as price, delivery, OA, or installation problems. Organized and able to multitask and retain and understand high level of product, project, client, and process information. Desire to work as part of a team. Ability to work to Maharam protocol and process, without direct supervision. Computer savvy with working knowledge of MS Office including Outlook and Word; and ability to learn DON and various Maharam specific computer functions. Education and Experience A bachelor’s degree or equivalent, degree in Interior Design is preferred. Sales experience preferred but not required. Equal Opportunity Employment Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Maharam is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities. This organization participates in E-Verify Employment Eligibility Verification. MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at View email address on click.appcast.io. #J-18808-Ljbffr Millerknoll