This is a fulltime position with Remington Defense in Huntsville, Alabama.
Overview:
This person assists the Director, Defense in handling Remington Defense product development, marketing, sales, promotion, forecasting, and competitive analysis. It is also this person’s responsibility to contact, call on, demo products at and support domestic and international customers/end-users. Attendance, set up and assistance at national/International trade shows and events are also part of this job. All of this is accomplished by traveling as needed and within a designated budget.
Responsibilities:
-Promote the sales of all Remington products, determining the best solution/product to meet the customer’s need.
-Initiate and manage all sales within/for assigned region or customers.
-Determine customer needs or gaps within the marketplace for development of both new products and modifications to existing Remington offerings for maximum profitability and sustainability.
-Build and maintain competitive analysis and sales pipeline for assigned region or customers.
-Obtains product market share by working with Business Development to determine product sales strategies.
-Provides information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses.
-Responsive to customer questions and requests regarding company product offerings.
-Act as a process guide to help Remington navigate domestic and international procurement channels.
-Develop appropriate customer contacts, both at the operator and the procurement chain levels, and build good-working relationships with in-country agents.
-Monitor customer orders through the production and delivery process.
-Conduct live fire firearms and ammunition demonstrations, product seminars and training, including but not limited to, product use and employment, product maintenance and care, and target engagements.
-Knowledgeable in safe gun and ammunition handling and instruction skills using a variety of teaching aids to include computer/multimedia hardware and software.
-Attend, set up or manage regional and national trade shows as assigned by the Director, Defense
-Travel, as directed, in a safe, productive, and cost-effective manner.
-Maintain flexibility to respond to any and all assignments called for by the Division Director or the SVP of Firearms.
Qualifications:
-To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
-The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
-Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
-Bachelor’s degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university
Or, two to four years related experience and/or training
Or, equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Skills
-Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
-Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
-Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Mathematical Skills
-Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
-Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Reasoning Ability
-Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
-Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Computer Skills
-Knowledgeable in MS Office (Word, Excel and Power Point)
Other Skills and Abilities
-Must be a competent public speaker.
Other Qualifications
-Substantial military experience at NCO level or higher.
-Must have a high level of technical military competence, credibility and personal integrity.
-Helpful if the person has had some exposure to law enforcement, be it on the job training, desired LE employment or family history.
-Essential that the person be familiar with gun / ammunition handling in general and preferred that they be experienced in one or more specialty areas of handguns, rifle or shotguns.
-This person has to be capable to travel away from home no less than 100 nights a year and possible as many as 160.
-No criminal record.
-Cannot be addicted to drugs or alcohol.
Physical Demands
-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.
-While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
-The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
-The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and sit.
-The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 100 pounds.
-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
-Live fire demos.
-Moving and setting up show displays.
-On your feet all day at shows, demos and training events.
-Sitting for long periods of time in airplanes or cars.
-Participating in training exercises with customers to demonstrate products.
-Provide visual and vocal presentations in front of both small and large audiences.
Work 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.
-While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; explosives and vibration.
-The employee is frequently exposed to extreme heat.
-The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and extreme cold.
-The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.
-Lead exposure due to ammunition detonation.
-Working on ranges where lead levels are beyond normal exposure.
-Working around and firing firearms of all sizes where loud gunfire noise is always a potential.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
-For former military, must have certified honorable discharge.
You may apply through here.