Outside Parts Salesperson - Victoria, BC

Hit the road and drive your sales career forward as an Outside Parts Salesperson!

Position : Outside Parts Salesperson

Type : Fulltime Permanent

Location : Victoria BC.

What We Offer:

• Work-Life Balance: Generous accrued vacation time.
• Financial Security: Plan for the future with employer RRSP matching.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Company-paid extended health coverage that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, basic life insurance, disability, and wellness programs. Health spending account, and generous personal day allotment.
• Investment in Growth: Access employer-paid technical training tailored to your needs, ensuring continuous skill enhancement and career advancement.

Position Overview:

As an Outside Parts Salesperson, you will be responsible for driving sales by building and maintaining relationships with customers in the field. You will represent our company by providing expert advice on solutions and ensuring customer satisfaction and supporting their fleet maintenance needs. This role requires a self-motivated, results-driven individual with a passion for customer service and a deep knowledge of parts. You will have the opportunity to grow within a dynamic team while making a significant impact on our business.

Essential Functions and Purpose:

The Outside Parts Salesperson solicits business from assigned territory by developing and maintaining customer contacts and generating potential new business contacts. They would spend more than 50% of time outside the office engaging in the selling of parts.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of VTC products and pricing
• Identify leads, manage prospects and acquire new business
• Visit assigned customers
• Prospect new customers
• Communicate parts orders to inside parts sales people
• Meet or exceed new business sales goals
• Complete prospecting activities to secure first and follow up appointments with decision makers
• Schedule and document activities
• Prepare and draft sales documentation and other paperwork needed to complete the sale in a timely manner
• Develop and maintain an awareness of the market behavior and competitive trends and responds accordingly
• Regularly meet with supervisor to review weekly sales activities, progress on goals and status of prospective customers
• Advise parts people of any special needs
• Follow up on parts order to ensure parts department is meeting or exceeding their needs
• Act as public relations liaison for VTC
• Maintain excellent customer service standards
• Resolve customer complaints and provides conflict resolution to customers
• Visit customers to provide and maintain excellent customer relations

Required Qualifications:

• Five (5) or more years of experience in service or parts departments of trucking industry
• Excellent customer service skills
• Strong communication skills
• Must exhibit leadership qualities
• Must exhibit teamwork qualities
• Show Initiative

Physical Demands

Lifting and Carrying:

Moderate Lifting and Carrying

Standing, bending, sitting, kneeling:

Moderate Periods of standing, bending, climbing, kneeling

Working Conditions

Work Setting:

Hybrid Work Setting

Noise Level:

Minimal Noise Level

Who We Are:

Velocity Truck Centres Canada provides full-service support, including sales, maintenance, parts, collision repair, and financing. Representing top brands like Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built, Autocar, and Trailers, we are committed to Speed, Value, and Trust for our customers and employees. With 17 branches across Alberta and British Columbia and over 100 locations worldwide in Canada, the USA, Mexico, and Australia, we offer exciting career growth opportunities and are looking for dedicated professionals to join our team.

Velocity Truck Centres Canada is an equal opportunity employer.