Posted 3 months ago
Account Manager
@ Power & Tel
Burlington, Ontario
Overview
Power & Tel is hiring a full-time Account Manager for a defined territory and market. The role combines sales targets and new business development with order entry, customer account care, purchasing liaison and daily reporting. Fluent French is required.
Responsibilities:
- Achieve sales and gross profit goals in an assigned territory
- Enter quotes and orders in the computer system while on the phone with customers
- Maintain customer relations and files
- Advise district sales managers of quotes, bids and leads
- Process returns, issue purchase orders and manage accounts receivable follow-up
Requirements summary:
- Fluent French
- 1 to 2 years of sales or customer service experience
- Strong phone and communication skills
- Problem-solving, negotiation and selling skills
- High school diploma; college degree preferred
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-14
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-03
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-03
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Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Sales |
| Experience | 1+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English, French |
| Education | High school (required), College diploma (preferred) |
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Full company description
Since 1963, Power & Tel's extensive distribution system has provided an effective way for service providers and contractors to get the wide range of products needed to build and maintain communication networks. As a WBENC-certified Woman-Owned Business and value-add partner, we offer efficient solutions for managing material and transactions, increasing asset visibility, and maximizing resource and facility capacity. Company headquarters are located in Piperton, TN, with branch offices and distribution centers throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and an export branch serving global customers out of Miami. For six decades, our deep industry relationships have ensured unfailing access to the products and brands that accelerate innovation. Solving supply chain challenges is our core strength. We go the extra mile to get you the right product at the right time, every time. Want to learn what's new in the ICT industry? Sign up for our newsletter: https://ptsupply.info/newsletter
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- Reported office locations
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- Other recorded names
- Power & Tel
- Specialties
- Your Supply Chain Partner
- Specializing in the procurement
- sales and material management of #telecom products
- telecommunications
- Information & Communications Technology
- ICT
- rural broadband
- fiber optics
- RDOF
- fiber cable
- Woman Owned Business
- Rural Digital Opportunity Fund
- 5G
- 10G
- VoIP
- telecom
- Internet of Things
- broadband access
- Essential Business
- electronics
- and outside plant
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Since 1963, Power & Tel's extensive distribution system has provided an effective way for service providers and contractors to get the wide range of products needed to build and maintain communication networks. As a WBENC-certified Woman-Owned Business and value-add partner, we offer efficient solutions for managing material and transactions, increasing asset visibility, and maximizing resource and facility…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | Piperton, Tennessee |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1963 |
| Specialties | Your Supply Chain PartnerSpecializing in the procurementsales and material management of #telecom productstelecommunicationsInformation & Communications TechnologyICTrural broadbandfiber opticsRDOFfiber cable |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 4 |
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Key Responsibilities
- Achieve sales and gross profit goals within a defined territory and/or market by proactively seeking new business opportunities within existing customer base & new leads.
- Works closley with assigned, existing, and potential customers in a defined territory.
- Maintains customer relations & files (current quotes, correspondence, plans, problems, etc. and updates customer information in the computer system.
- Enters quotes and orders into the computer system while on the phone with the customer.
- Advises District Sales Managers (DSMs) of all pending quotations, bids, leads, competitive information, and sales possibilities.
- Establishes GP% to be used in bids, processes return authorizations, sends out correspondence & literature, and works back-order reports.
- Maintains close contact with the Purchasing Department (advises of low/high stock levels, competitive market prices, and vendor pricing discrepancies).
- Participates in vendor shows, in-house product training, association meetings, and P&T training.
The additional Key Responsibilities below apply to Account Managers assigned to Power & Tel of Canada:
- Transmits a daily order sales summary to the National Sales Manager.
- Issues direct/drop shipments and POs when required.
- Daily entering and review of QSAs
- Daily activity reports to GM and ISM
- Assists in planning, designing & launching email promos
- Process VISA, Mastercard, debit card payments
- AR follow-up & calls to customers
- Product search e.g. substitutes, approx for specific applications
- Price negotiations
- POs for “Drop Ship” tickets
Skills Needed
- Attention to detail, clear phone voice and excellent communication skills a must.
- Customer/Employee relations using motivation and dipolmany in difficult situations
- Flexible to change, general computer skills including Microsoft Office
- Strong - problem solving, negotiation, organization, and selling skills
- French Canadian Speaker - fluent
Minimum Educational Requirements
High School Diploma. A college degree is preferred, but is not required.
Experience Required
The successful candidate will have 1 to 2 years previous sales or Customer Service experience. Wholesale distribution experience is preferred, but is not required.
NOTE: The purpose of this outline job description is to focus attention on the most important aspects of the job. It is not intended to be a complete list of every duty and it is therefore to be expected that the day to day performance of the job will frequently include tasks not listed above. The list of duties for which the job holder is responsible may be varied or added to at the discretion of your manager. Any such alterations intended to be permanent will be added to this job description.
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