Direct Sales Associate

Job Summary

Job Profile Summary The Direct Sales Associate provides competitive face to face sales offers to Acquisition customers as well as current Vistra customers. The primary purposes of the Direct Sales Associate is to acquire commercial customers through face to face sales interaction, working closely with the Vistra Channel Management & Operations teams. The Direct Sales Executive serves as an ambassador for the Vistra brand in pursuit of providing commercial prospects with affordable and competitive energy solutions.

• Contact commercial customer from a defined prospecting list.
• Present competitive business solutions that meet customers’ needs
• Meet and exceed sales quotas.
• Effectively manage prospects in their assigned sales territory
• Maintain records and timely complete all required reports to build a pipelines of customer for future prospecting.
• Collect customer, market, and competitor information during the sales process to improve channel success
• Maintain high level of open communication and morale within the group and among supporting work groups.
• Assist in presenting results/implications and recommendations to management.

• 3+ years of selling experience
• Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to above skills
• Bilingual is a plus (preferable Spanish Speaking)
• Demonstrate proficiency in computer skills, word processing, software, email, Excel, CRM system & Web-based tools.
• Can interpret and apply policies, procedures and processes.
• HS Diploma or equivalency required.

• Demonstrate sales ability to present a sales pitch & close customers.
• Able to use listening skills in selecting appropriate customer offer.
• Ability to negotiate in a sale environment and overcome customers resistance to sales calls.
• Ability to interface with all internal and external levels of management, employees, vendors and customers.
• Ability to gather and interpret moderately complex data, analyze and resolve problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Ability to follow through to completion on the customer issue and problem.

Sales Company Vistra Retail Operations

Houston, Texas Texas

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Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company based in Irving, Texas, that provides essential power resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. Vistra is the largest competitive power generator in the U.S., with a capacity of approximately 41,000 megawatts, or enough to power 20 million homes, operating in all of the major competitive wholesale markets in the country.

Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation and expansion with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability, powered by a diverse portfolio that includes natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities. The company continues to grow its zero-carbon resources, operating the second-largest fleet of competitive nuclear power plants in the country, substantial battery energy storage capacity, and a growing number of solar facilities.

Vistra is one of the largest competitive electricity providers in the country and takes an innovative, customer‑centric approach to retail, offering solutions to meet customers' needs, including more…