SALES PROFESSIONAL CAREER STREAM: Typically sales professional individual contributors with direct sales responsibilities. May direct the work of other lower level sales professionals or manage sales processes and / or accounts involving multiple team members. The majority of time is spent establishing and maintaining customer relationships, developing new customer relationships, implementing sales strategies and closing sales.
Autonomy: Entry-level sales professional on one or more individual or team accounts.
Sells products and/or services to a group of clients and identifies new and potential customers.
Work is closely supervised.
Maintains relationships.
Organizational Impact: Works to achieve individual sales targets within product area and/or account by selling lower complexity products / services, developing new accounts and/or expanding existing accounts.
Has some impact on the overall achievement of sales results for the team.
Work typically on smaller, less complex accounts, small quota or territory.
Innovation and Complexity: Follows standard sales and business development practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained.
May recommend changes in account tactics to achieve sales goals.
Implements improvements and changes to work processes and procedures.
Communication and Influence: Communicates with external customers and / or vendors, involving basic negotiation and / or presentations in order to close sales.
Obtains or provides information requiring some explanation or interpretation.
Leadership and Talent Management: N / A – Job at this level are focused on self-development.