Business Development, Purchasing

About Maddox + You:

You will be an integrated part of a small, but powerful, surplus purchasing team. You will be using our established purchasing processes to buy industrial transformers from commercial and industrial end-users, electrical contractors, and resellers of industrial electrical equipment.

Reactively, you will be responding to seller requests for offers, evaluating the commercial and technical value of the equipment, and making purchasing offers in a timely manner. You need to be great at navigating technical and commercial problems in a fast-paced, data-driven workflow as well as negotiating through suppliers' objections.

Proactively, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining existing relationships along with increasing purchasing opportunities by identifying and establishing contact with potential suppliers through cold calling, email, attending trade shows, and market research.

More about You:

• You enjoy working with sellers to make the best technical and commercial purchasing decisions possible.

• You are highly motivated and comfortable with negotiating and outreach.

• Your clients will be located all across the country, so you need to make a great impression with your communication skills via phone and email.

• You demonstrate fantastic written communication. You will need to maintain many email conversations each day. If your grammar is poor, or you are slow at writing emails, you will struggle in this role.

• You are focused and able to maintain good attention to detail.

• You are savvy with modern software. If you prefer an "old school" (pile of handwritten notes) workflow, you are not a fit for this role.

• You prefer a healthy team vs. operating as a lone wolf.

Experience & Education:

We value experience, so if you have 20+ years of related experience, that's great! We're also very good at training new recruits, and are willing to invest in a select number of promising early-career candidates with the right attitude and ambition. Depending on the exact role, technical and engineering degrees may be desired, but not required.

Bilingual, specifically Spanish speaking candidates are encouraged to apply.

Pay: Starting package $65k-$95k including bonus and benefits; commensurate to experience.

Pro Tip: We get a LOT of applicants, so if you want to stand out, write a few sentences telling us what stood out to you, and why you think you'd thrive in this particular opportunity.

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