Veterans Preferred - Sales Support Specialist

Company: Airgas
Location: San Diego
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

Military Veterans are Encouraged to Apply. -R10063686 Sales Support Specialist (Open)

Location:
San Diego, CA - Filling industrial

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

A Sales Support Specialist provides essential daily customer support to the outside sales team in the San Diego and Hawaii markets within industrial, medical, and specialty gas markets. This position will act as the liaison between customer master data, operations,
distribution and other internal departments as necessary. The primary responsibilities of this position will be to submit quotes, track orders and deliveries, enter and update contracted pricing, create sales/usage reports, and provide timely research and resolution to customer inquiries. This position will support numerous account managers within a designated sales area contributing to the overall sales success and customer satisfaction.
Pay: $27 - $32/hr. DOE

--- Responsible for adherence to company policies including safety and the use of personal protective equipment.

--- Manages calls for incoming orders, email orders or inquiries from primarily internal and possibly external customers in a professional manner.

--- Has daily communication with the sales team regarding quotes, order status, deliveries, back orders and/or any pending order issues.

--- Creates quotes in SAP for the sales team. Follow up on quotes, order status and deliveries.

--- Maintains customer files. This may include preparing customer credits and supporting credit & collections efforts.

--- Communicate with retail branch personnel to stock appropriate product levels as requested by the sales team.

--- Submits contract pricing updates as needed following the proper chain of command/process.

--- Assists accounts receivable with invoice questions, researches and gathers supporting documentation and submits corrections as requested.

--- May be requested by sales leadership to gather information for special projects relating to pricing, inventory, or sales to align the needs of the customer.

--- Participates in product knowledge and vendor training to increase knowledge and awareness of our market segments.

--- Pull ad hoc reports from systems that may include Salesforce, Excel, Power BI, Pros, Google Sheets and Business Warehouse depending on needs of support area.

--- All employees are expected to perform any reasonable work request that falls within the qualifications but not specifically described.

To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

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Are you a MATCH?

Required Education:

High School Diploma or equivalent of three years' work-related experience or equivalent combination of both. College Degree is preferred in business or marketing.

Required Length and Type of Experience:

--- SAP or similar software system experience. Intermediate skills operating a computer in both Windows and Google based environment is recommended.

--- Knowledge of welding, industrial gases and safety equipment applications is a plus

--- Knowledge of Salesforce (or other Customer Relationship Management solution) at an administrative entry level is desired

--- Customer service oriented with strong organizational skills and attention to detail is necessary

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA's):

--- Needs to be able to interact in a professional manner within all levels of a diverse organization.

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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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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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