Elite Technical is seeking a Bidding Specialist/Sales Professional to support our customer, a family business that has been in operation for 35 years selling aftermarket automotive/bus repair parts to the federal, state, and local governments all across the USA! The selected candidate will be responsible for identifying, executing, and servicing sales requests from our customer agencies. This begins with understanding our client-s product lines, and identifying those products on RFQ/RFI/RFPs that arrive from our customers via email, online portals, phone, and sealed (mailed) bid formats. For each bid opportunity, the representative will research relevant product costs and arrive at an optimal bid price that accounts for all ancillary costs, required profit margin, and the competitive environment.

We are seeking candidates with a history of successfully responding to Bid solicitations for products specifically. Selling into the Federal Government is considered a big plus. Want to learn more? Then you should contact Elite Technical right away for consideration!

Required Skills

- Education: Four-year degree preferred. High School Diploma required.
-5+ years of responding to Product based Bid solicitations exp. (RFI, RFQ, RFP, etc..)
- Government Sector experience considered a plus, including government procurement websites (ie SAM.Gov, dibbsnav.com, etc..)
- Must be sales-minded, willing to go above and beyond what is expected for customers. Should approach the position with an eye toward growing the business at every opportunity.
- Able to request and receive customer RFQs (requests for quotation) via email/online/phone/sealed bid, and identify line items that correspond to products VMP can supply.
- Able to Calculate bid/sell price based on existing contractual agreements, historical bid results, and effective profit margin.
- Able to read, interpret, and adhere to customers bidding policies, including delivery lead time requirements, brand equals, pricing term, and response deadlines. Complete accompanying bid paperwork.
- Big Plus: Experience selling after market vehicle parts or similar (not required)