Parts Sales Specialist

Job Summary:

AgriVision Equipment is seeking a high-energy, positive individual who brings the desire to learn and grow into a long-term successful career in the ag equipment industry. Previous experience and knowledge of large agriculture equipment or commercial/turf equipment is welcomed but not required. There's a lot we can train with the right individual who is willing to work hard, make customers our #1 priority, and who is committed to Integrity, Results, Innovation, Servant Leadership and Commitment. If you are craving an opportunity to build your talents and make a difference, then we need to talk!

Parts Sales Specialists play a vital role in establishing a positive first impression to our customers. This position is responsible for performing a variety of in and out of store customer service, marketing, promoting, and selling duties.

As a Parts Sales Specialist, you will:

• Quickly establishes trusting relationships with customers by having excellent knowledge of parts and accessories across all product lines.
• Demonstrate strong selling skills including the ability to offer alternative solutions to meet customer needs.
• Displays a strong sense of urgency and ensures timely follow-up to customer needs.
• Maintains inventory integrity by verifying receipting-in of shipments and stocking parts in their proper inventory locations.
• Assists in creating a visually appealing and professional showroom layout that allows customers to find what they need in a timely manner.
• Consistently challenges the status quo and communicates innovative ideas and/or solutions to take the department and location to the next level.
• Utilizes all internal and external software to efficiently and effectively perform day to day duties.
• Supply Service Technicians with parts necessary to complete their repairs in a timely manner.
• Participates in all job-related training and development.

Experience, Skills and Knowledge:

• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills that relate to customer service and selling skills.
• Ability to analyze and interpret basic Parts Department reports and metrics.
• Ability to use standard desktop applications such as Microsoft Office and internet functions.

Working Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work is generally performed in a professional office environment.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as required by the work location.
• Occasional exposure to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and vibration.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Work may involve long hours and overtime during the peak season, holidays, weekends, and evenings.
• May be required to rotate on-call responsibilities.

Physical Activities:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to stand, sit, walk, walk on unpaved terrain, talk, reach with arms and hands, have good manual dexterity, use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard, handle or feel, hear alarms/telephones/normal speaking voice.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen.
• May involve climbing ladders, stairs, steps, and traversing catwalk grating, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, and kneeling on a frequent basis and working in confined space and manual dexterity required to complete work tasks through safe and proper operation of power and hand tools, and motor vehicles.
• Moderate physical activity required by moving and positioning objects up to 50 pounds or more occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Who we are:

AGRIVISION EQUIPMENT Group is one of the top John Deere Dealerships in the United States. We credit our success to our knowledgeable, competitive, hardworking and passionate employees that strive for excellence in everything they do.

With over 100 years of experience in the agricultural industry we have a rich heritage, growth mindset, and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, we are 17 locations strong supporting southwest and southcentral Iowa, northwest Missouri and southeast Nebraska.

We are seeking driven, highly motivated, collaborative, and intellectually curious professionals who want to be part of cultivating the highest impact culture in the agriculture equipment industry. Previous experience and knowledge of large ag equipment or commercial/turf equipment is welcomed but not required. There's a lot we can train with the right individual who is willing to work hard, make customers our #1 priority, and who is committed to integrity, results, servant leadership, innovation, and commitment.

No matter the location, or the role, every AgriVision Equipment employee shares one purpose: To care for customers linked to the land by walking with them to build a better tomorrow. Our purpose motivates us day-in, day-out: to see and lead far into the future.

If that sounds like something you'd like to be a part of, read more below and apply today.

EEO

AgriVision Equipment Group and PrairieLand Partners (AVE-PLP, LLC) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any person in any condition of employment based on race, color, creed, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, marital status, or veteran status.