Job Openings Sales Assistant Manager

About the job Sales Assistant Manager

Job Title: Assistant Manager - Sales

Location: Chicago Area, Illinois

Job Type: Full-Time (Home Office Arrangement)

Summary of Responsibilities:

  • Manage sales and marketing functions to drive business growth and increase profits.
  • Achieve sales budgets and analyze monthly sales performance.
  • Conduct performance appraisals and prepare sales reports for upper Management.
  • Serve customers by selling services, meeting their needs, and resolving problems.
  • Generate new accounts by calling leads and prospects.
  • Expand sales with current customers and arrange appointments with potential and existing customers.
  • Enter customer data into internal web applications and databases.
  • Compile leads and prospects through internet research.
  • Analyze customer freight activity and offer appropriate pricing agreements.
  • Assist with monitoring international and domestic shipments.
  • Engage and support in house agents through phone and email communication.
  • Generate activity reports and report sales to management.
  • Process incoming emails, electronic files, and faxes.

Associated Responsibilities:

  • Receive phone calls and communicate with retail customers in English and Japanese.
  • Handle cargo, including receiving, inspection, sorting, labeling, packing, palletizing, and loading.
  • Maintain flexibility in work assignments.
  • Comply with, train for, and report to regulatory agencies, company safety and security programs, and company
  • policies.
  • Execute inventory management, record-keeping, and reporting.
  • Maintain a clean and orderly warehouse and workspace.
  • Occasionally operate forklifts for inventory and other operations.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

  • Fully proficient in the Japanese language
  • Strong sales presentation and telephone skills.
  • Self-motivation and initiative.
  • Excellent interpersonal and team-building skills.
  • Accurate and timely data entry into data programs.
  • Ability to create, compose, and edit written materials.
  • Ability to operate motor vehicles and forklifts safely and maintain required training certifications.
  • Maintain security clearances and training certifications following industry regulatory agencies, including TSA.
  • Strong organizational skills.

Education

Bachelor's degree and at least 3 year Management experience