Veterans Preferred - Account Manager - Outside Sales

Company: Airgas
Location: Portland
Posted on: May 1, 2025

Job Description:

Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. -R10061301 Account Manager - Outside Sales (Open)

Location:
Portland, OR - NE Columbia - Retail shopVancouver, WA - Minnehaha - Retail shop

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

Account Manager

- Vancouver, WA or Portland, OR
- Travel required in your personal vehicle throughout designated territory. $550/month car allowance and mileage/expense reimbursement provided.
- $63,431 to $75,864 base, target 70/ 30 base/ commission target (uncapped commission opportunity)
- Airgas Suite of Benefits and Programs Offered:
- Healthcare Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision options
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Pre-tax Savings Options (FSA, HSA)
- Basic life and AD&D with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents
- Short and long-term disability coverage with optional buy-up
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match effective upon hire
- Vacation accrual of up to 80 hours per year, which increases up to 120 hours after your third anniversary
- Seven (7) Company observed paid holidays per calendar year and hours count towards the calculation of overtime!
- Up to two paid floating holidays per calendar year, amount determined by hire date
- Paid parental leave after 12 months of employment
- Tuition assistance and CDL scholarship options after 6 months of employment
- Career Development Opportunities
- See more at: http://www.airgas.com/company/careers/employee-benefits
As Account Manager you will sell welding products as well as industrial and specialty gases. You will advise customers on tools, hardware, and abrasive products, as well as safety apparel and equipment including goggles, helmets, hearing protection, welding jackets, and more. You'll call on prospective and existing customers to build relationships and increase sales, and work with Airgas product specialists and branches to bring value and added resources to improve customer's profitability.

In particular, you will:

• Build strong relationships with all branch personnel and create open communication with branch managers to grow and support business.
  
• Actively pursue and acquire, on an on-going basis, new and competitive accounts with emphasis on gases, business, and product supply agreements.
  
• Ensure customer inquiries related to billing problems, cylinder balances, order status, time of delivery, etc are promptly and courteously handled, providing follow-up as necessary.
  
• Complete and turn in sales related paperwork and annual sales analysis and forecasts to management.
  
• Schedule joint sales calls with vendors and Airgas Product Specialists.
  
  
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  Are you a MATCH?
  
  
  • High school diploma or equivalent; Bachelor's degree preferred.
    
  • 3+ years experience in industrial sales (preferred).
    
  • 5+ years experience in outside sales (preferred).
    
  • Welding and compressed gases product knowledge preferred.
    
  • Proficiency working with computer applications including Google Workspace and Microsoft Office (required)
    
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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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