INSIDE SALES

Location:

• Proactively sell industrial gasses, welding supplies, and related equipment to both existing and potential customers.

• Provide coverage to other branches when necessary.

• Handle all sales-related paperwork, including documenting sales, quotes, and pertinent customer details.

• Provide insightful answers to customer inquiries and offer expert guidance on suitable equipment and procedures.

• Conduct equipment demonstrations, ensuring customers are confident in their product usage.

• Manage delivery logistics for cylinders and hardgoods, while maintaining appealing showroom displays.

• Assist customers with merchandise and facilitate the loading and unloading of cylinders.

• Cultivate and nurture positive customer relations.

• Communicate effectively in-person and over the phone to offer information on costs, ordering, and delivery schedules.

• Monitor customer needs and collaboratively manage hardgoods and cylinder levels to reduce emergency deliveries.

• Manage accounts receivable matters, including contacting customers for payment and handling collection as needed.

• Ensure accurate completion of paperwork, including coding, costing, and pricing.

• Collaborate with the purchasing department to address product shortages or outages.

• Operate equipment such as forklifts, as required.

• Support inventory management, housekeeping, showroom displays, and product demonstrations.

• Fulfill other assigned duties and projects.

Qualifications and Competencies:

• High school diploma or equivalent

• Previous experience in customer service or sales.

• Familiarity with compressed gases and related products is advantageous.

• Basic computer skills, along with familiarity in order entry systems.

• SAP experience is a plus.

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Analytical thinking to assess customer situations and provide effective solutions.

• Positive team-oriented attitude with a willingness to learn and grow.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse personalities and backgrounds.

• Skillful handling of cash transactions.

• Physical strength to handle loads up to 60 lbs. and perform repetitive tasks.

• Flexibility for extended hours and overtime as required.

• Willingness to engage in tasks involving climbing, balancing, kneeling, and other physical activities.

• Comfortable working in a drug-free, tobacco-free workplace.

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.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Must have at least one year of CDL Class A or B driving experience with like equipment or graduated from an accredited truck driving school.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the Company.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals, and to calculate percent.

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.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions.

Airgas is a drug-free workplace

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability

Airgas USA, LLC, an Air Liquide company, is the leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, as well as hard goods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products; and a leading U.S. supplier of ammonia products and process chemicals.

Dedicated to improving the performance of its more than 1 million customers, Airgas safely and reliably provides products, services, and expertise through its more than 18,000 associates, over 1,400 locations, robust e-Business platform, and Airgas Total Access tele sales channel. As an Air Liquide company, a world leader in gases, technology, and services for Industry and Health, Airgas offers customers an unrivaled global footprint and industry-leading technology and innovations. Airgas' customer base includes but is not limited to: manufacturing, health care, construction, energy, hospitality, food service, and many more.

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees' dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company's written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com.

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