Contractor Sales

Contractor Sales Representatives are important members of the Star Nursery team.  They provide outstanding customer services and sales assistance to business-to-business customers – our contractors.  They maintain a safe workplace and efficient and productive work flow.     

• Follow operations standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, safety, and complete and on-time service


• Follow policies in the areas of operations techniques, materials usage, shipping and receiving, capacity planning, scheduling, safety, customer satisfaction,


• Provide leadership for problem-resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships


• Walk the nursery to understand and plan for plant availability


• Complete plant orders from commercial customers and assist with retail customers during high traffic flow to our stores


• Placing special orders & upsell


• Set up Deliveries & Route Trucks


• Routing trucks


• Perform other related duties as assigned

Skills:

• Planning: an ability to think ahead and plan in short/ long term ranges


• The ability to organize and manage multiple priorities


• Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional


• Strong ability to interact in a positive manner with varying types of customers, both retail and commercial


• Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills


• Strong team player


• Commitment to company values


• Extensive knowledge of plant material and garden center merchandise and operations


• Ability to follow directions as well as work independently to achieve goals and complete assigned tasks


• Ability to maintain positive relationships with stores and corporate employees at varying levels


• Ability to work outdoors in all types of weather


• MS Office Skills


• Effective and relevant work experience in a garden center industry or equivalent

Physical Aspects of the job

• Frequently bending, twisting and rotating trunk, arms and legs


• Standing 100% of the time/walking 99% of the time/climbing 10% of the time


• Working with arms extended and bent constantly


• Frequently moving parts and stock weighing up to 35 pounds, 10 to 50 feet


• Occasionally moving parts and stock weighing up to 50 pounds; pushing and pulling


• occasionally


• Frequently moving merchandise weighing 10 to 25 pounds from floor to counter


• Occasionally moving and stocking overhead shelves with parts weighing 5 to 15 pounds


• Constant gross hand and finger dexterity; frequently grasping and manipulating


• Constant hand and eye coordination