Location
Columbus, OH | United States
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Subsidiary: Barrett Industries
Strawser Construction Inc. is one of the companies that operates within Barrett Industries Corporation, the Colas USA subsidiary that operates primarily in Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. We have been serving the Midwestern United States since 1976, performing work in multi-state areas and have become a leader in the pavement preservation industry. Our construction operation is headquartered in Columbus, OH and we operate an asphalt emulsion production facility near Cincinnati, OH. To learn more about Strawser visit
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Job Summary
Strawser Construction Inc., a subsidiary of Barrett Industries Corporation, provides pavement preservation solutions for public infrastructure and private clients. We are currently looking for a Sales Representative who will be responsible for developing and managing customer relationships in the West Virginia & Kentucky area. This role will require periodic visits to the company offices but can generally be performed remotely.
Main Responsibilities
- Educate customers on proven road maintenance strategies, technologies and emerging trends.
- Help customers optimize their roadway infrastructure investments to create a higher ROI on taxpayer dollars.
- Recommend product solutions to customers.
- Analyze and review roadways with or for customers.
- Conduct site visits of active jobs with customers and coordinate product demonstrations.
- Interview customers to better understand customer value and gain insights.
- Bring internal subject matter experts to help solve customers’ problems.
- Create plans to develop your territory and increase customer loyalty.
- Suggest ideas to continuously improve our sales processes and tools.
- Maintain sales data for your territory in our sales enablement system (HubSpot)
- Analyze your territory results and make recommendations to improve the business.
- Communicate customer expectations to internal Estimators and Operations teams.
- Collaborate with the Marketing team to improve our go-to-market strategies and tactics.
Requirements and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience
- Minimum of 5 years of field sales or account management experience
- General construction knowledge
- Current driver’s license and ability to drive on a regular basis.
- Ability to travel 35% to 40% of the time (overnight stay may be required)
- Ability to build high trust relationships with government officials.
- Ability to conduct work safely around job sites with heavy equipment.
- Ability to develop a deep understanding about the technical aspects of products in the road construction and maintenance industry.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate well and use a consultative approach.
- Strong technology skills using office productivity software and sales enablement systems.
- Ability to recommend improvements to standardize our sales processes.
- Ability to manage competing priorities.
- Ability to work independently and ask for guidance appropriately.
- Ability to read, write and speak English.
Culture at Strawser
- Acknowledge and value diversity.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and engaged team environment.
- Seek to hire for culture add.
- Work-life balance is supported.
Colas Inc. and its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer. For details on the specifics of this commitment, please click here to view the EEO document. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to:
- to meet the requirements of the role in which you are applying
- complete any part of the application process
- access or use the online application process and need an alternative method for applying
Please contact Colas Inc. at 973-290-9082 or send an email to [email protected].
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