Landscape & Garden Services Sales Manager in Minneapolis, Minnesota at Bachman's Inc.

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Landscape & Garden Services Sales Manager

Salaried Position: Monday through Friday, some weekends

Bachman’s is committed to creating a caring environment while inspiring a passion for bringing beauty to life.

Are you looking for steady, full-time employment with great benefits? Do you want to work for a company that cares about its employees? Are you looking for a positive work environment and a team atmosphere? Don’t wait, apply now!

Job Duties:

• Supervise/manage all phases of daily operation with Landscape and Garden Services sales force. This includes; commissioning orders, approving special pricing, assisting with proposals, monitoring open estimates, and assigning new leads.
• Perform all necessary training of new design/sales people. This includes performing all sales duties in the absence of departing team members.
• Insure that sales staff members are designing with best possible materials and plants for every customer. Insure that all sales guidelines follow industry and Bachman’s installation standards.
• Resolve customer service issues between customers and the design staff. This may include site visits with face to face interactions with residential and commercial clients.
• Work with operation manager insuring all orders are installed properly and all issues are resolved properly.
• Meet with high end commercial and residential clients to attract profitable, but creative new sales. Help create an attractive marking plan each year alongside the director of the department and the Marketing Department. Assist with customer maintenance and tracking strategies to ensure Bachman’s is following all customer leads and information.
• Experience with estimating and bidding software, Dynascape or other software experience will be desired.
• Strong mathematical aptitude and knowledge of accounting/budgeting principles. This person determines pricing guidelines, write large commercial proposals, explain billing problems and procedures to clients, and is involved in the budgeting process.
• Strong proposal writing background with commercial and residential clients. Past experience with presentations in front of both commercial and residential clients.
• Ability to evaluate the legal aspects of contracts submitted by clients and contractors. A course on interpretation of contracts or three years’ experience working with contracts. Must be able to create and maintain Bachman’s contracts for payment i.e. “terms” and contracts for “rental”.
• Past experience CRM programs or manual customer maintenance.

Qualifications:

• Degree in horticulture/business or 4 or more years in related field.
• Three or more years’ experience in a sales related position.
• To or more years’ experience in landscape design.
• Good working knowledge of interior and exterior plant material.
• Ability to work with general contractors and builders on RFPs that are creative and profitable for Bachman’s. Have the ability to give presentations in front of large groups of potential clients.
• Leadership and motivational capabilities. Must lead by example and provide the employees the training and tools necessary to complete their goals.

Benefits:

• Employee Discount
• Medical Insurance
• Health Savings Account/PPO
• Dental Insurance
• Vision
• Life and AD&D
• Disability, Accident, Critical Illness Insurance
• 401(K)
• ID Watchdog
• Pet Insurance
• Wellness
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• PTO
• Paid Holidays (6/year)

Don’t settle, come grow with us!

Bachman’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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