Open Positions at our Baton Rouge Office:
- Sales Account Specialist
- AV Service Technician
If any of these roles interest you, simply submit your resume using the form. Or you can send your resume to jobs@avsolutions.com with the job title you're interested in the subject line.
Sales Account Specialist
Our ideal candidate must be a motivated, ambitious, and a pure client hunter. This person will prospect, grow new business, and maintain key accounts with OUTSTANDING unlimited earnings potential and career growth.
The Senior Account Executive is responsible for communicating the specifics of client requirements to AV Solutions support personnel so that the client experiences a superior level of customer service. It is the responsibility of the Account Executive to make certain that client expectations are being met or exceeded by creating realistic expectations, then taking responsibility for meeting those expectations.
Benefits
Competitive industry compensation and benefits.
Working Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment and at client sites in all stages of construction and will be required to drive to client sites.
AV Solutions uses HubSpot as a CRM to track prospects, clients, and sales opportunities.
AV Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.
- Generate sales for AV systems through developing and maintaining client relationships and expanding the company’s current client base.
- Call on established commercial, government, and education accounts in the greater Louisiana market.
- Qualify and develop new accounts.
- Identify sales prospects and provide accurate forecasts and activity reports to management.
- Analyze cross-selling and up-selling opportunities ensuring that all company products and services have been thoroughly presented and the sales cycle successfully executed.
- Exhibit a consultative sales approach to determine a customer’s visual collaboration needs.
- Identify customers’ needs and budgets and align to AV Solutions’ product ecosystem and services.
- Develop price quotations and bid responses that are complete, accurate, and profitable (GP).
- Prepare agreements and pricing strategies for targets accounts and submit all required documentation.
- Work with the installation team to ensure a smooth transition from sale to installation.
- Perform site surveys where needed.
- Other duties are assigned as needed.
Physical Requirement
The physical demands of this position are those that are necessary to meet the responsibilities and essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position regularly requires employees to sit, walk, stand, and navigate onsite visits including plants and sites at all stages of construction; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment.
- Ability to understand, present, and demonstrate visual collaboration products and services to end-user customers.
- Ability to balance multiple tasks with changing priorities.
- Ability to work and think independently and meet deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain strict confidentiality and handle sensitive matters with discretion.
- Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Have clear and professional communication skills (written and oral) both internally and externally.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
- Familiarity with EOS, HubSpot, Quickbooks, and Quickbase a plus.
- Effective communication and interaction with employees, clients, and colleagues and the ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization.
- A four-year degree is desirable or an associate’s college degree (preferred).
- 5 years of direct commission sales experience preferred.
- Experience selling Crestron, Extron, AMX, Biamp, Cisco, SMART, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to understand, present, and demonstrate audiovisual collaboration products and services to end-user customers.
- Excellent communication skills with customers both verbal and written.
- Strong ability to close business, securing orders under acceptable company terms and margins.
AV Service Technician
We're looking for an experienced systems technician to join our team of industry-leading creative problem solvers who develop, build, deliver, and service business-class electronic solutions.
Conscientious, customer service-minded applicants will appreciate the merit-based recognition, rewards and responsibilities in this full-time, Mon-Fri career.
Benefits
Competitive industry compensation and benefits. Hourly rate depending on previous experience.
Insurance, mileage, other benefits, and limited travel. Plus we work with cool AV stuff.
Job Description
Assemble, test, plan, deliver, install, train, and service AV Solutions systems to our standards. As a part of the AV Solutions delivery team, your key objectives include delivering accurate, direct answers and outcomes, meeting client expectations as established by our team, leaving a clean site, minimizing distractions to our clients, and recognizing unfulfilled needs/wishes we can address to thrill every client.
AV Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local law.
- Arrive promptly at or before the scheduled time.
- Working at AV Solutions and Client facilities.
- Assembling, testing, packing, transporting, installing, inspecting, and troubleshooting AV systems.
- Training clients on AV systems.
- Organizing, planning, and communicating regarding needs, status, and other AV Solutions and client-related activities.
- Experience operating power and hand tools.
- Preferred experience mounting TVs and projectors.
- Preferred experience pulling, terminating, and testing CAT 5/6 cable.
- Ability to climb ladders.
- Experience working with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Good verbal communication skills.
- Effective time management skills.
- Critical thinking skills and the ability to adapt to challenges.
- Requires flexibility to work late and long hours as required by individual projects, and flexibility to work around occasional off-hour client needs. Weekend work is rare.
- General start times are coordinated during onboarding.
- The better the candidate estimates and prepares, the earlier they will routinely leave work. We provide guidance and structure to ensure organization, but ultimately executing an effective actions plan is up to the installer.
- Own a truck or be willing to get one.