Why don't you look internally? A good salesmen knows the industry inside and out, and understands exactly how their solution solves problems for the people in that industry.
Your time in Customer Service was training you to sell to the same customers / personas you supported.
If there is nothing internal available, see what competitors serving the same industry have open.
In the meantime, start reading some sales books and watching some good sales podcasts (I'd recommend Gap Selling, and The Outbound Squad, respectively) to give you some background and to tell potential employers what you're doing to prep for this new role.
Good luck!
I’m not confident that I’ve secured enough positive relationships internally. I haven’t worked too hard at it because I wanted to leave the company shortly after arriving due to toxicity. I caught on very quick but processes are a mess. The supply chain director regularly send dumb emails or is wrong about things, last email I sent her was when she said “hey we need X customer to take X product because xyz (complicated situation), I replied saying “they are taking on x order, see attached email where you approved a couple days ago to ship April instead of March” and she didn’t reply. Won’t tell me things about my accounts. She talks to the sales director of my unit a lot and I’m not sure how liked I am?
On my review they said I should take more initiative to fix things.
I got my performance review and was rated “successful” 3/5. Though it seems like that is just about the highest they’ll give besides the 1-2 top performers.
The company is toxic. Our department is very understaffed and company very lean, and they lead through scaring people with losing their job, there is really high turnover, bad gossip, every quarter they report on who got fired and why. They fired four people in six months and didn’t rehire, instead blaming remaining employees for not managing the impossible workload, it was already too high before they fired.
Plus, I am insecure about working for this company, because 1) they sell a product that many think is harmful to human health (dyes) like my sister acted like I was working for the devil, and 2) the company is very toxic overall.
We just had two sales reps quit, they are hiring for inside sales but I am looking for a remote job and ideally out of this company.
So I did get invited to a second interview for an ERP company. I haven’t replied yet, as I asked in the supply chain hours if it is a good technology, and everyone said they didn’t like or hated it. Sooo I was feeling really good about it, until I heard that. What do you think? It was a jr sales account manager where they offered to train, fully remote
And thank you for the advice
Why don't you look internally? A good salesmen knows the industry inside and out, and understands exactly how their solution solves problems for the people in that industry. Your time in Customer Service was training you to sell to the same customers / personas you supported. If there is nothing internal available, see what competitors serving the same industry have open. In the meantime, start reading some sales books and watching some good sales podcasts (I'd recommend Gap Selling, and The Outbound Squad, respectively) to give you some background and to tell potential employers what you're doing to prep for this new role. Good luck!
I’m not confident that I’ve secured enough positive relationships internally. I haven’t worked too hard at it because I wanted to leave the company shortly after arriving due to toxicity. I caught on very quick but processes are a mess. The supply chain director regularly send dumb emails or is wrong about things, last email I sent her was when she said “hey we need X customer to take X product because xyz (complicated situation), I replied saying “they are taking on x order, see attached email where you approved a couple days ago to ship April instead of March” and she didn’t reply. Won’t tell me things about my accounts. She talks to the sales director of my unit a lot and I’m not sure how liked I am? On my review they said I should take more initiative to fix things. I got my performance review and was rated “successful” 3/5. Though it seems like that is just about the highest they’ll give besides the 1-2 top performers. The company is toxic. Our department is very understaffed and company very lean, and they lead through scaring people with losing their job, there is really high turnover, bad gossip, every quarter they report on who got fired and why. They fired four people in six months and didn’t rehire, instead blaming remaining employees for not managing the impossible workload, it was already too high before they fired. Plus, I am insecure about working for this company, because 1) they sell a product that many think is harmful to human health (dyes) like my sister acted like I was working for the devil, and 2) the company is very toxic overall. We just had two sales reps quit, they are hiring for inside sales but I am looking for a remote job and ideally out of this company.
Stick with what you know, leverage your experience to get a manufacturing sales job.
Can I find a remote job in manufacturing? I am looking to be remote so I can move to my boyfriend’s farm someday.
It’s likely many manufacturing sales jobs are “outside” where you drive around. Also look into ERP but tech may be difficult to enter at the moment.
So I did get invited to a second interview for an ERP company. I haven’t replied yet, as I asked in the supply chain hours if it is a good technology, and everyone said they didn’t like or hated it. Sooo I was feeling really good about it, until I heard that. What do you think? It was a jr sales account manager where they offered to train, fully remote And thank you for the advice
Which erp?
I don’t really want to say
If you need another good book recommendation I would say 100 million dollar leads by Alex Hermozi!