Sales Support Specialist Job Opening

The Sales Support Specialist works as an integral part of the sales team as they continue to expand NFI’s presence in the marketplace. Primary activities include preparation of proposal submissions, capabilities presentations and maintaining accurate response content.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Create presentations including customer business reviews, capabilities overviews, facility tour presentations, and bid responses
Oversee the preparation, development and transmittal of RFI/RFP/RFQ responses; maintain interactive library of responses
Team support activities including weekly sales activities reports and schedules, meeting and travel arrangements, etc.
In collaboration with the NFI marketing team, maintain current inventory of marketing collateral including capabilities presentations, brochures, business line data sheets, facility profiles, etc.
Compiling prospect lists and performing preliminary research utilizing on-line resource tools
Oversee the onboarding of new sales team members
Research conference/tradeshows and provide support as needed

Requirements:
Must have 3 - 5 years of previous sales support experience
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred
Strong verbal and written communication skills; top level grammar, spelling and proofreading required
Able to multi-task under pressure while maintaining a high level of quality
Natural orientation toward teamwork; able to thrive in a collaborative work environment
Able to work independently and proactively, with minimal supervision
Strong computer skills including MS Office applications (primarily Word, PowerPoint and Excel), Google mail, and customer relationship management software (CRM)
Confidence level to problem solve and make appropriate decisions when needed