Your Best Career Experience
Horizons is looking for persuaders and influencers to drive sales of our unique, innovative, and growth orientated product lines! If you have a natural ability to cultivate relationships, grow networks, and nurture leads we’d love for you to join us in an Inside Sales position.
Your Best Career Experience Responsibilities
Inside Sales plays a foundational role of the company’s success which is why we’re looking for people who can support our sales initiatives with energy and proficiency. You’ll be responsible for representing Horizons’ products and services to designers within an assigned account base with the objective to generate meaningful and substantial sales growth.
Working in Inside Sales, you’ll become a product and install specialist, setting you on a path for professional growth and career advancement with Horizons!
Here’s a bit more of what you can expect your time to look like:
- Account Maintenance and Sales: Along with seeking out new opportunities to gain market share, you’ll also develop long-term designer relationships and present solutions through the Horizons line of products and services to generate incremental sales volume. While designer contact is made primarily through telephone interaction, you’ll also facilitate in-person meetings quarterly at both workroom location and designer offices.
- Account Administration: You’ll maintain dealer programs for discounts, sample, and display costs with all sales contacts, consistently gather and report information relating to competitor activity, enter call detail in sales reporting program each day, and communicate designer status updates.
- Training Support and Administration: Not only will you solicit training needs but you’ll also provide sales training as an on-going element of the vendor-dealer relationship.
- Marketing and Roadshow support: You will participate in our field based marketing and promotional events, including client visits, Roadshows, Seminars and Trade Events. You will be expected to participate in the planning and setting up of the events as well as present to a large audience the marketing and promotion of our products
About the Best Experience Company
With roots stretching back to 1891, Horizons has experienced unprecedented growth via the marketing and production of unique and innovative window fashions not available from any other company. Horizons is proud of a long, rich heritage of creating supreme quality, locally crafted products in Waukegan, Illinois. In 2013 Horizons was acquired by Springs Window Fashions. Springs has been part of the window treatments industry since 1939 and is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin. Our tagline is “The Best Experience Company.” More than just a set of words, it represents the essence of who we are at Springs. We want you to join our team of passionate self-starters who believe the world is full of Best Experience opportunities.
If you’re excited about the thought of a Best Experience career with a team focused on creating Best Experiences for all, we want to hear from you!
How We Work to Deliver a Best Experience: Our Behavioral Competencies
- Ensure Accountability – Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
- Drive Engagement – Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
- Instill Trust – Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity
- Drive Results – Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
- Consumer/Customer Focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering on customer-centric solutions
- Critical Thinking – Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
- Being Resilient – Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations
- Optimize Work Processes – Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement