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Senior Crane Sales / Business Development
Olive Recruiting
πΊπΈ United States
On-site
Senior
4 weeks ago
- Pension
4 weeks ago
Location: Manassas, VA - candidates should ideally live within approximately 45 minutes of Manassas.
Full-time, direct hire with client.
Schedule: Primarily in-office and field based. This position is expected to spend approximately 50% or more of its time in the field visiting customers and job sites, with the balance in the office.
Compensation: $110,000-$120,000 base salary, depending on experience, plus commission. Commission has historically been around 1% and can add approximately $40,000-$60,000 annually depending on sales performance. The position also participates in the company bonus pool at a reduced weighting due to commission eligibility and is eligible for 401(k) profit sharing, two weeks of PTO, and the client's standard office benefits.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and grow an established book of existing and previous crane service customers.
- Build long-term customer relationships through regular communication, site visits, and consultative sales.
- Visit customer locations and job sites to understand project requirements and identify crane service opportunities.
- Develop new customers and expand existing accounts while maintaining a strong focus on repeat business.
- Work with customers and internal operations teams to understand technical crane requirements and develop appropriate service solutions.
- Maintain strong knowledge of the local crane, rigging, construction, and industrial markets.
- Represent the company professionally with contractors, project managers, estimators, and other customer decision-makers.
- Develop business through relationship-based selling rather than high-volume transactional or cold-call sales.
- 5+ years of successful sales experience in crane services, taxi crane, mobile crane, rigging, or a closely related sector preferred.
- Strong understanding of crane operations and the ability to have technical conversations with customers.
- Prior hands-on crane, rigging, operator, or related industry experience is highly desirable.
- Established relationships within the crane, construction, industrial, or heavy-lift market are preferred but a transferable book of business is not required.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain long-term customer relationships and grow repeat business.
- Strong business development, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable spending significant time in the field visiting customers and job sites.
- Must be able to work from the Manassas area and travel locally as required.
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