Sales Administrator

Company: AccuWeather
Location: Wichita
Posted on: March 26, 2020

Job Description:

COMPANY

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved tens of thousands of lives, prevented hundreds of thousands of injuries and tens of billions of dollars in property damage. With global headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania, and other offices around the world, AccuWeather serves more than 1.5 billion people daily to help them plan their lives and get more out of their day through innovative digital media properties, such as AccuWeather.com and mobile, as well as AccuWeather For Business, radio, television, newspapers, and the 24/7 AccuWeather Network.

Additionally, AccuWeather produces and distributes news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. Among AccuWeather's many innovative and award-winning features free to the public are MinuteCast-- Minute by Minute--- forecasts with Superior Accuracy---. Further, AccuWeather serves more than half of Fortune 500 companies and thousands of businesses globally.

SUMMARY

We are currently interviewing for a Sales Administrator position for our AccuWeather for Business Enterprise Sales Team. The Sales Administrator will have a key role in helping us to achieve our aggressive sales goals. The Sales Administrator will provide administrative sales support for our sales representatives, ensuring impeccable, all-around customer service. Candidates should be goal-oriented and have a strong knowledge of customer sales, service, best practices and focus on a 360-degree customer experience. This position will play a large role in maintaining our reputation for excellent products and superior customer satisfaction. Must thrive and flourish in a team organization and committed to team and customer success.

RESPONSIBILITIES

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• Deep level of sales methodologies, sales report generation and best practices preferably in a professional services environment with many personal touch points across disciplines and lines of business.
  
• Deep level of expertise with working with customers to resolve account changes and communicating these changes through the CRM system and other departments i.e. legal, contracting and operations.
  
• Organized and able to perform functions with a CRM platform not limited to leads, opportunities and notes.
  
• Detailed thinking, checking for data accuracy in all communications.
  
• Excellent communication and customer service skills enabling you to successfully contact clients to obtain missing information or answer queries.
  
• Collaborative skills needed to liaise with the Legal, Contracting, Operations and other departments to confirm timely deliveries.
  
• Clerical skills to provide and update sales and customer records.
  
• Computer skills to generate daily, weekly, monthly sales reports.
  
• Willingness to convey key feedback from customers internally.
  
• Commitment to meeting or exceeding sales targets, reporting any deviations.
  
• Commitment to staying informed regarding new products and features.
  
  
  QUALIFICATIONS
  
  
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  • High school diploma required.
    
  • B.S. degree in Marketing, Sales, or relevant field preferred but not mandatory.
    
  • Proven work experience as a Sales Administrator or another relevant role.
    
  • 2+ years' experience in sales, CRM software and Microsoft Office (MS Excel, particularly).
    
  • Strong knowledge of sales performance metrics and KPIs.
    
  • Outstanding organizational and multitasking skills.
    
  • Team-player mindset with high level of dedication to raising the bar for the whole team.
    
  • Ability to prioritize work and succeed under deadlines.
    
    AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEO is the Law poster here and its supplement here. The pay transparency policy is available here.
    
    AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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