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Lechner Services Uniform Rental is a family-owned and operated business in Mount Prospect, Illinois. We have been serving the Chicagoland area since 1971. We work together as a team, giving mutual respect to all of our co-workers.
Lechner Services is an equal opportunity company and offers the following benefits to all our employees:
- Competitive Pay
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Package
- Paid Vacation and Holidays
- Career Advancement Opportunities
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Job Description
As a third-generation, family-owned business, Lechner Services is looking for a qualified and ambitious individual eager to grow their career.
The Route Service Representative is the face of Lechner Services. The ideal candidate will be extremely independent, ambitious, and success-driven.
In this position, you will cater to the needs of a diverse and dynamic client base.
What Lechner Employees Enjoy:
- Competitive wages and bonus structure
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Company matching 401K
- Company paid training
- Paid time off
- Growth and development opportunities
Essential job functions:
- Safely complete daily servicing of all clients in company provided vehicle
- Build strong relationships and open lines of communication with our customers
- Maintain a safe, efficient, and professional route
- Cross-sell additional Lechner products and services
Skills and Competencies:
- Exceptional communication and business development skills
- Ability to lift up to 100 lbs. on an intermittent basis without assistance
- Basic PC proficiency
Work experience, requirements, and education:
- High School diploma/GED or equivalent
- experience in route-based service a plus
- 1 -3 + years in customer service, sales, or equivalent training
- 21 years of age or older
- Valid Driver license, clean driving record
- Ability to obtain applicable DOT Medical Card
Lechner Services is looking for a professional who is detail-oriented and able to multi-task to manage daily functions of collections and customer service in a timely manner while interacting with customers and fellow employees in a positive and respectful manner. To the qualified candidate we offer:
- Competitive health, dental and vision insurance
- Enrollment in 401K plan
Since 1971, Lechner Services has thrived as an independently owned industrial laundry provider with a unique ability to go above and beyond with responsive and committed values. Generations have trusted Lechner Services, and as a multi-generational, family-owned company, we have forged partnerships with our customers that last. By reinvesting in employees, the latest technology, and facilities, Lechner Services continues to focus on ways to improve the service it provides.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Monitor customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities Research and resolve payment discrepancies
- Send out notices to overdue accounts/contact customers with delinquent accounts
- Develop a recovery system and initiate collection efforts
- Prepare weekly reports on outstanding account and give an explanation of activities
- Work with service team on past due and breach accounts
- Process daily credit card payments
- Preparation of accounts to be submitted to attorney Follow established procedures for processing credit card payments
- Carry out billing, collection, and reporting activities according to specific deadlines
Qualifications
The right candidate for this job will have a background which includes:
- Manage and overcome customer objections.
- Detail-Oriented, well organized.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to collaborate & work well with others
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and internet/email.
- Self-starter with the ability to manage time and meet deadlines.
- Accurate in information regarding account status
- Strong work ethic /Dependable
- Lechner and Sons is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Requirements
- High school or equivalent education as needed.
Lechner Services is looking for a Sales Professional to prospect a territory within the Chicagoland market. The Sales Professional is responsible for achieving their sales plan by securing new customers while building a sales pipeline through continuous, on-going prospecting for new customers. Lechner Services provides industry training, including product knowledge, business development, and sales strategies. Our Sales Professional negotiates pricing, product, service options, and coordinates necessary program sampling. This market has great potential for new business generation; the opportunity for professional and financial growth is substantial. To the qualified candidate we offer:
- Base salary plus generous commission and bonus structure
- Competitive health, dental and vision insurance
- Enrollment in 401K plan
- Car plan
- Cell phone and laptop
Since 1971, Lechner Services has thrived as an independently owned industrial laundry provider with a unique ability to go above and beyond with responsive and committed values. Generations have trusted Lechner Services, and as a multi-generational, family-owned company, we have forged partnerships with our customers that last. By reinvesting in employees, the latest technology, and facilities, Lechner Services continues to focus on ways to improve the service it provides.
Duties, essential functions, and competencies
- Increase company revenue by selling rental and facility service products.
- Engage in prospecting, including phone blocks, cold-calling, sales presentations, follow-up appointments, territory management, etc.
- Building and maintaining relationships, proposal preparation and presentation, and closing sales.
- Utilize Lechner’s relationship management software program, Salesforce.com, to generate leads so that appointments may be set with qualified prospects.
- Maintain and update account information and activities within Salesforce.com.
- Set appointments each day using sales techniques taught by Lechner’s Sales Leadership Team.
- Present proposals to prospects using the selling system and methods taught by the Lechner Sales Leadership Team.
- Follow up with potential customers on sales proposals and be involved in every step of the sales process from initial appointment to closing sale.
- Have a thorough knowledge of Lechner’s products and services and how they are used.
- Provide prompt, effective solutions to customer needs.
- Coachability while working within a team environment.
- Motivated, self-starter with tenacity.
Requirements
- Represent the company in a positive manner, maintain a neat and professional appearance, and act professionally at all times.
- Must maintain a neat and professional vehicle that is clean and organized.
- Demonstrated success in developing new business and generating sales leads within an assigned sales territory.
- Strong presentation and communication skills with a consultative selling approach.
- Positive communication with customers, potential customers, and co-workers.
- Clean driving record and valid driver’s license required.
- Bachelor's degree preferred with a minimum of 3+ years of business-to-business, outside sales
- Experience focused on new account generation, preferably selling a service.
- Experience with CRM tools preferred