Job Title: Account Manager Trainee
Area of Interest: Plumbing, HVAC, Fire and Water Works, Irrigation, Flow Control
Location: Houston - 77040
Hugh M. Cunningham Companies is a family-owned manufacturer representative business established in 1947. Our associates are among the best in the industry! We have been hiring champions for over 75 years – people that share our passion for helping others. We pride ourselves on delivering high quality service and value to our clients. When you join our team, you can count on exceptional support, guidance, and encouragement from the top down!
Job Purpose: This is an important and exciting role responsible for growing our customer and manufacture base, generating revenue and building meaningful working partnerships. Our Account Managers work closely with our Inside Sales team to provide world-class customer service and value for which the Hugh M. Cunningham Companies are known.
Job Duties:
- Serve as a knowledgeable research partner and provide expertise to prospective and existing customers
- Establish and maintain current client and potential client relationships.
- Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships.
- Coordinate and communicate effectively with Customer Service Department.
- Collaborate with internal departments to facilitate customers’ needs.
- Compile lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads.
- Travel throughout assigned territory to develop new business from existing customers and actively seek new sales opportunities from prospective customers.
- Display and demonstrate products and their features.
- Identify and resolve client concerns.
- Participate in marketing events such as seminars and trade shows
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills
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Effective closing skills
- Motivation for Sales
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Organizational and time management skills with the ability to multi-task
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Ability to learn the products, policies, procedures, and pricing for each manufacturer assigned,
- Outstanding follow-up skills
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Detailed oriented
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Strong time management skills
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Must have critical thinking skills
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Strong work ethic
Education and Experience:
- 2+ years Outside Sales experience in related industry a plus.
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Bachelor’s degree in sales preferred.
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Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Proficient in the use of technology (computer/ tablet). Familiar with mobile applications.
Job Type: Full time/Exempt
Spanning over nine decades, Hugh M. Cunningham Companies has personified a sales agency for building products: mechanical, light industrial, waterworks, fire protection, turf, irrigation, HVAC, waterwell, agriculture and plumbing products. HMC represents the best manufacturers in the SouthCentral United States: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Our founder, Hugh M. Cunningham, Sr. was responsible for establishing one of the first manufacturers' representative agencies west of the Mississippi, as well as numerous innovations that directly impacted the way manufacturers' representatives operate today. HMC employs over 150 people focused on one overriding goal: marketing, selling, and servicing our vendors, to our customers, in our territory.
Hugh M. Cunningham offers a comprehensive benefits package including
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medical insurance
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dental insurance
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vision insurance
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401K
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life insurance
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short and long-term disability insurance
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vacation and sick leave.
Our headquarters are in Carrollton, Texas, and we have additional locations in San Antonio and Houston. We offer a fun and professional working environment focused on developing successful associates.
Hugh M. Cunningham Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.