Sales Representative

The Sales Representative vacancy at DHL Global Forwarding in Erbil, Iraq, is a field sales job for a set territory, product line or market segment: finding prospects, matching their needs to the company’s services and closing business on new and existing accounts.

Sales representative job details in Erbil

The listing casts the job as customer-facing and persuasion-heavy. It describes explaining proposals to skeptical customers and distributors, including where their decision-making processes and standards are fixed. Coordination runs through local, district and regional management and through inside sales, and the holder may also advise or train less experienced field sales staff.

Responsibilities

• Helps administer field sales planning and the related processes for an assigned territory, product line or market segment, working toward its revenue and sales goals
• Hunts for profitable extra sales among both new and existing accounts
• Reaches out to prospective customers, works out what they need and matches it to the products or services on offer
• Gives sales presentations, submits bids, supplies product or service information and chases quotes until business is closed
• Coordinates customer requests and promoted services with local, district and regional management, and aligns sales efforts with inside sales while passing competitor and supplier information to product management
• Fixes faults in the systems and processes already in use and makes minor changes that improve everyday work
• Talks skeptical customers, distributors and other outside parties round when they resist proposals
• May advise or train less experienced field sales staff

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience or qualification
• More than two years of experience

Benefits

• A global company where staff can contribute their ideas and skills to shared goals
• Possible further career development
• Competitive salary, as the listing puts it

About DHL Global Forwarding

DHL Global Forwarding, Freight (DGFF) is the air, ocean and road freight arm of DHL Group. Per the listing, it handles both standardized transport and highly specialized end-to-end solutions for customers in many industries, and it belongs to Deutsche Post DHL, which the listing calls the world’s leading logistics provider. The listing also cites a Top Employer certification and a focus on developing talented women under its DGF Strategy 2025.

How to apply

Applications go through DHL’s careers portal: apply using the button below.