Outside Sales - Technical Specialist - Forberg Smith

Location: Remote, West Virginia, United States; customer visitation, travel, and offsite work activities are required.

Company

hirify.global is a 100% employee-owned company with eight divisions and more than 75 locations across ten states, serving electrical, automation, pipe, valve, fitting, steam, lighting, industrial controls, and instrumentation markets.

What you will do

• Manage, grow, and support an assigned sales territory covering customers in the Midwest market.
• Generate profitable orders and meet or exceed annual sales and margin objectives.
• Prospect for new customers, identify sales opportunities, and convert them into orders.
• Build trusted relationships with customers and manufacturers through direct contact, phone, and electronic communication.
• Present products, negotiate contracts and pricing, monitor quotations, and follow up professionally to maximize sales.
• Analyze field activities, territory conditions, competition, and market needs to improve productivity and efficiency.

Requirements

• At least one year of outside sales experience.
• Bachelor’s degree, technical degree, or an equivalent combination of skills and experience.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products and the ability to learn new software.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, negotiation, presentation, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel, visit customers, perform offsite work, operate a vehicle, and maintain a valid driver’s license.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities.

Nice to have

• Two years of sales experience.
• Experience with process control instruments, including level, flow, pressure, temperature, system components, valves, analysis, and filtration.
• Experience serving industrial markets such as power generation, chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, biotech, food and beverage, semiconductor, water treatment, renewable fuels, automotive, aerospace, steel, manufacturing, R&D, OEM, EPC, or industrial contractors.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% employee-owned company with an employee ownership model.
• Opportunities for learning, growth, coaching, and mentoring.
• Collaborative work with an established sales team covering multiple states.
• Equal opportunity employment environment.