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Rice Lake Weighing Systems Job

For 80 years Rice Lake Weighing Systems has been a successful, growth-oriented company known as a leader in the weighing industry and our community. Located in scenic northwestern Wisconsin just 90 miles from Minneapolis, RLWS offers big city careers in a small-town atmosphere.

Essential Job Functions & Major Tasks:

• Support the management of product segments by providing collaboration, leadership and entrepreneurial efforts. Includes recognizing market segment opportunities, cultivating relationships with customers, establishing focus and momentum for product segment, and becoming acknowledged as a competent and knowledgeable product segment professional by industry individuals and employees.
• Collaborate with the Product Management team, which maintains company focus and prioritizing of products and services. Includes supporting other product managers, negotiating for internal resources, assisting other product segments, managing a portfolio of products, developing company sales and marketing strategies, sharing market intelligence, and deriving consensus within the team. Also includes assisting with maintaining MRP parameters, managing part numbers, ASAP quotes, NCP and ECO requests.
• Establish and develop business relationships with cross-functional teams, customers, industry leaders, and major suppliers to ensure competitiveness of product segment. Includes representing Rice Lake Weighing Systems and product segment(s), developing market information, working with current and new suppliers to identify new business opportunities, and advocate company's reputation as the stocking distributor and manufacturer of choice.
• Forecast assigned product segment(s) future sales for use by Purchasing, Manufacturing and other departments. Responsible for ensuring forecast validity, structure, and timeliness.
• Manage and support the development of assigned product segments short-term and long-term sales goals and objectives. Develop goals and objectives based on market intelligence, company strategy, and product opportunities. Monitor progress to determine achievement of goals and objectives, adjust base on market information and ensure that the key criteria of ROI, urgency, and strategic importance are maximized.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, to ensure that customers receive application advice and guidance for proposed applications. Includes organizing training of front-line customer employees, recommending customers service improvements, identification of service-related failures, and providing customer service leadership by example. Additionally, working with customers, or customer facing roles, to identify requirements and aligning proper equipment or services with those requirements. Ensuring proper sales process flow and internal and external communications are achieved.

Other Job Functions:

• Stay abreast of legal, legislative, and other exterior market information to protect and expand business opportunities
• Travels to customer locations and other business functions in the performance of above essential job functions
• Other duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Sales, Business Administration, Technical Field or related, or five (5) or more years scales and measurements experience
• Three (3) years or more weighing industry or related industry (Strongly Preferred)

Skills:

• Strong computer and technology skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Good organizational skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good negotiating skills
• Good forecasting skills
• Certificates, Licenses, Training, or Other Job-Related Requirements
• Valid Driver's License
• Approximately 25% travel as required

RLWS is a successful, energetic, customer-driven organization that offers competitive wages, great working conditions, medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, disability, life, 5 weeks PTO, holidays, 401k, and wellness benefit programs.

If you need assistance with your application, please contact Rice Lake Weighing Systems at (800) 472-6703. Rice Lake Weighing Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. Rice Lake Weighing Systems is a Substance-Free Workplace and requires pre-employment drug screens.

Qualifications

Behaviors:

Preferred

Team Player: Works well as a member of a group

Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well

Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking

Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest

Motivations:

Preferred

Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility

Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help

Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.