Home Theater Retail Sales Specialist - Eden Prairie/Richfield MN

For 35 years, mid-sized and large firms have trusted MarketSources sales and marketing outsourced services to accelerate their revenue growth and control costs. MarketSource designs and deploys field sales and marketing teams in just weeks while simultaneously generating sales.

Home Theater Retail Selling Specialist

MarketSource is a premier field sales representative firm that delivers innovative and customized retail sales solutions for leading consumer technology manufacturers. MarketSource specializes in representing top manufacturers of wireless, consumer electronics and various computer products by providing professional sales and marketing teams. These teams deliver selling services as well as comprehensive sales and product training programs at various consumer electronic retail chains throughout the US and Canada. As a team, we deliver services to our clients in three critical categories: Bi-monthly store calls, project-based selling day events and special events all conducted at the retail store level. MarketSource is focused on building successful retail programs and works continuously to improve the way we work with our clients, retailers, and sales reps, to create programs that deliver results.

This Retail Selling Specialist position is at the forefront of MarketSources Sales and Marketing efforts to support clients sales at the retail store level. The qualified individual possesses a strong passion for success, an abundance of ENERGY and is committed to delivering superior client service as a Sales Event Specialist. The ideal candidate must be self-motivated, goal oriented and a team player excited to learn and grow as a member of the MarketSource Retail team. The Selling Specialists must be able to comfortably explain and educate customers and retail sales associates and make product recommendations. Selling Specialists must be able to make quality sales presentations and demonstrations to customers for increased sales results.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining professional business relations with retail store personnel
• Primary duty is to create consumer awareness, product brand preference, and product mind share for hardware and software companies at the retail store level.
• Influence others to share enthusiasm for both the company and the product line
• Ability to merchandise client products and/or manage the client objectives in an assigned territory
• Position requires gathering client product competitive intelligence at the store level
• Effectively collect and communicate product information/data through appropriate channels
• Ability to visually assess on-site needs i.e., product and promotional/marketing material stocking
• Meet timely required reporting deadlines

 Requirements

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• 1 to 2 years previous consumer electronics sales, a plus
• Home Theater experience, a plus
• Good knowledge and experience with consumer electronics, computer components and various other consumer-based electronics products
• Technically savvy and computer proficient
• Previous experience with building, taking apart and putting back together computers, a plus
• Possess a high level of energy
• Access to internet for email correspondence and report submissions
• Must have the willingness and ability to build relationships at the retail store level on behalf of both MarketSource and our clients
• Professional image and approach to business
• Friendly demeanor, easy to approach, energetic
• Group training, demonstrating or presentation experience
• Retail sales or retail management is a plus
• Quick learner who is self motivated
• Ability to self-train on client product(s)
• Possess a high degree of initiative, exercises judgment and exhibits a high level of creativity
• Positive, flexible and focused, with an emphasis on a can do, hands on approach and philosophy
• Ability to operate independently and proactively
• Need to be self motivated, confident and professional when dealing with both internal and external customers
• Employment contingent on successfully completing background and drug screen.
• Must be eligible to work in USA

Physical Job Requirements:

• Bending, stooping, reaching, twisting, lifting, pushing, pulling and moving items
• Requires the ability to move around the store and maneuver merchandise when necessary
• Walking and Standing
• Requires moving around the store to assist Customers
• Identifying and reading reports
• Requires recognizing, identifying and using products and necessary reports

Country: USA, State: Minnesota, City: Minneapolis, Company: MarketSource.
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