Sales Intern

R10063830 Sales Intern (Open)Location:Toledo, OH - Retail shopHow will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?The Outside Sales Intern is responsible for assisting in various stages of the sales process, including creating awareness of new offerings, generating leads, and retaining customers. This role will work closely with members of the area sales team.• Establishes and maintains clear and consistent lines of communication with internal departments relative to customer specific successes and failures, new customer developments and other customer specific information. Works closely with local Branch Managers to assist in promoting sales and customer management through retail store locations within assigned geographical area.• Maintains a high level of internal customer service by assisting sales force and submitting professional quotes as needed.• Prepares and delivers effective sales presentations and proposals to prospective customers.• Qualifies and pursues sales leads from other parts of the Airgas organization.• Keeps local, regional and national Airgas management informed of territory performance, personal performance and market trends.• Maintains regular and on time submission of required sales and activity reports, including itineraries, call reports, “hot” prospect lists, account wins and losses and other information as required.• Attends and successfully completes all training modules provided by Airgas• Develops and maintains positive work habits that are conducive to sales and profitability growth.• Coordinates efforts with e-business team to setup customers on Airgas.com.________________________Are you a MATCH?• Must be enrolled in an accredited university majoring in Business, Sales or similar discipline. Junior or Senior level; future graduate.• Prior sales, retail, customer service, or similar experience preferred.• Exhibits customer focused behavior such as building positive relationships and the ability to understand both internal and external customer needs.• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.• A positive approach and willingness to learn coupled with the ability to work in a team environment• Ambition to build a career in outside sales• Proficient in MS Office and/or Google suite applications.• Onsite work environment, local travel• Reliable vehicle transportation, valid US Driver’s License, and appropriate insurance coverage________________________We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees.We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children._________________________Your differences enhance our performanceAt Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world._________________________Equal Employment Opportunity InformationWe are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com._________________________California Privacy Notice