Customer Sales Specialist

Company: Arrow Electronics
Location: Englewood
Posted on: May 26, 2023

Job Description:

Position:
Customer Sales Specialist
Job Description:

Principal Accountabilities
Responsible for the day-to-day sales activities, sales support and customer service tasks for specified customers and assigned accounts. Maintains efficiencies in corporate operational processes and procedures. Serves as a liaison between Arrow's internal resources (field sales, engineering, supplier marketing, manufacturing facilities, purchasing and other corporate departments), suppliers, and customers.
Processes quotes and order preparation for specified customers and works with centralized PM's for Quote and Debit information. Works to ensure that Arrow is awarded full margin from suppliers for fieldwork done. Thorough knowledge and accountability of supply chain engagements such as: e-Compass (My Arrow). Coordinate resources and processing of customer quotations (Quote Center, Quote Cover Sheet, PM Views, Management, FSR, Suppliers, Value Add, and SSG). Negotiate pricing (non-contract only), provide quote mark up (owns strategy and application of cost plus mark up) and notify customer of related price increases.
Problem Resolution: Work with appropriate supplier contacts and internal departments to solve pre-sales and post-sales problems. Ensures execution and manages the demand creation activity, applicable contracts, value added programs, returns, invoicing, credit, shipping issues, etc. Handles local expediting and assists global opportunities through local escalation. Provide proactive notification to customer of changes to delivery status, conduct bond reviews with customer (Shortages & Turns), manage SMI (Slow Moving Inventory) and NCNR (Non-Cancellable, Non-Returnable) customer conversations, own Hard & Planned Order management, PCN (Product Change Notification) Coordination and deliver and maintain the POI (Perfect Order Index). This is comprised of OTD (On-Time Delivery) and E2E (End-to-End Order Quality).
Support Management: Support sales team with direct customer contact for Order to Invoice process within Planned Demand. Liaison between sales team and Infosys to perform root cause analysis and provide more complex problem solving. Manage the interface on e-Compass reports with Infosys, drive closure by managing exceptions (Dropped Part, New Part), manage customer Forecast Response reports after Infosys has taken action and drive closure by managing exceptions. Support e-Compass engagements and manage bond requests, identifying unit turn rates that are outside of branch goals and make adjustments to ensure unit turn rates are met . Coordinate the contract refresh clause and manual inventory sweep process from IPS (In-Plant Store) or consignment back to PDC (Primary Distribution Center). Attend/lead the customer shortage calls and set internal action plan and communicate to appropriate account team members.

Job Complexity
Has developed specialized skills or is multi-skilled through job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience
Completes work under moderate supervision
Likely to act as an informal resource for colleagues with less experience
Identifies key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data
Takes a broad perspective to problems and spots new, less obvious solutions

Experience / Education
Typically requires a 2 year degree and 3-5 years of experience or High school graduate with equivalent related experience. May require specific certifications.

Annual Hiring Range/Hourly Rate:

$29.42 - $35.96

Actual compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level. The pay ratio between base pay and target incentive (if applicable) will be finalized at offer.

Location:
US-MN-Bloomington, Minnesota (Hampshire Ave)


Time Type:
Full time
Job Category:
Business Support

EEO Statement:

Arrow is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. (Arrow EEO/AAP policy) Associated topics: b2b, device, distributor, equipment, inside sales, internal sales, inventory, procurement, warehouse, wholesale

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