FT Sales Support Associate in West Seattle

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Northwest Plan Services, Inc., a leading provider of retirement plan administration services for clients throughout the country, is seeking a Sales & Marketing Support Associate specialist to support our two person outside sales team. Benefits include fully paid employee medical, dental and vision coverage, vacation, sick leave, and profit sharing. This job will be located at our West Seattle HQ office.

Job Responsibilities

Direct sales support:
Work with sales reps on appointment scheduling
Research support for market targeting
Email campaign support

Proposal process management:
Complete generic questions from RFP
Maintain Exhibits database
Maintain RFP Answers database
Final proofing prior to submission
Print and production for hard-copy submissions

Advisor research and email campaigns:
Augment advisor database in SFDC
Work with Sales Reps to identify advisor firms for targeting
Identify decision makers at target advisors including name, title and email
Help drafting and then executing advisor email campaigns

Plan sponsor research
Analyze 5500s as needed
Identify decision makers at target companies including name, title and email
Use available tools to identify sets of plan sponsors by advisor, recordkeeper, etc. per sales rep request

Marketing support
Proofing and posting of new blog posts for website
Help drafting and then executing client and prospect email campaigns
Competitive research as needed

Job qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree (preferred) and 2+ years’ experience, without a degree 4-7 years’ experience.

Experience: At least 2 years’ experience working directly with clients in a B2B environment managing sales effort, proposals and client/prospect research, information and details. Must have worked with a sales division in the past. Retirement or financial services industry experience a plus.

Ability to identify areas of responsibility that need additional structure/tools and to create this structure/tools to enable desired results. Must be self-reliant, creative and innovative. Must be able to take the lead on projects. Needs to be very high energy, motivated, and a problem solver.

Skills needed:
Excellent writing skills
MS Office (word, excel, PPT)
Organizational skills
Internet research & sleuthing
Email marketing/campaign support & list management
Salesforce.com experience

Interested? Please send a copy of your resume plus an email telling me how you can help us succeed to tobrien AT nwp401k DOT com

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