Sales Representative – Freight and Logistics
611311 · Light Next-day readySales representatives sell and promote goods and services to people or businesses.
Description
Represents company in selling freight and logistics services.
Typical work tasks
Promotes and sells their company's freight and logistics services; acquires and updates knowledge of employer's and competitors' services, and market conditions; uses directories and other sources to compile lists of prospective business clients; visits clients to establish selling opportunities; quotes prices and credit terms, records orders; follows up clients and ensures satisfaction with services and resolves any problems; monitors clients' changing needs and competitor activity and reports on these developments to sales and marketing management; prepares sales reports; maintains and submits records of business expenses incurred.
Typical work environment
- Typically works indoors from a sales office base or car.
- Works from an adequately heated and ventilated office.
Typical physical and mental demands
- Sedentary to light physical demand levels.
- Sits frequently when preparing sales reports, cold calling or discussing services with clients.
- Stands and walks frequently when on sales trips or costing jobs.
- Stretching, twisting, climbing and lifting should not be necessary.
- Bending, squatting or crouching will be unnecessary for most situations.
- Repetitive movements will be required when driving and using a computer.
- Frequently travels to meet potential clients.
- Driving in cars is likely to be frequent.
- Use of hand-held objects is frequent and will involve the use of writing implements, telephones, faxes, computers, photocopiers, scanners, calculators and other general office equipment.
- Mental skills necessary include presentation, selling, product knowledge, communication and negotiation, organisation and planning.
Enter via experience or on-the-job training; no mandatory pre-entry qualification. Flagged next-day ready.
How this was determined (model-generated): Freight/logistics sales rep; entered via experience or on-the-job training, no mandatory qualification or licence.
Entry Requirements
A New Zealand Register Level 2 or 3 qualification or at least one year of relevant experience (ANZSCO Skill Level 4). In some instances particular experience and/or on-the-job training may be required. For entry-level positions on-the-job training is sufficient.
Further Comments
There are opportunities for flexibility of movement.