Lighting Quotations Specialist - Doral, FL

There’s a Place for You at World Electric

A career at World Electric is more than a job. You’re investing in a brighter, more sustainable future together and joining a team that makes a real difference for our customers. World Electric offers electrical products and services to contractors. If it helps bring electricity to an office, home, factory or other building – you can find it here. We operate throughout Florida and Georgia and are part of the Sonepar group, the world’s #1 electrical distributor with over 45,000 associates around the globe.

Being “Powered by Difference” means we respect and value diverse perspectives. Within World Electric we offer a supportive culture and great benefits, and as part of the larger Sonepar group, we can offer exciting opportunities to grow your career.

Do you want to work for a Company where 96% of the employees say it is a great place to work?!  

World Electric has a Lighting Quotations Specialist position available at our Doral location. The person in this role is responsible for developing proposals, bids, quotations, or other documents describing organizational products and services in response to requests from prospective clients. You will collaborate with members of the sales, marketing, finance, or product teams to ensure content is complete, accurate, and timely. The ideal candidate will possess a high level of professional customer service, meet deadlines, work effectively in challenging environment and be willing to go the extra mile. 

Responsibilities:  

• Foster and maintain excellent working relationships internally with project manager and outside sales representatives  
• Communicates with suppliers to discuss material specifications, clarifies, and confirms bill of materials, negotiates pricing, and identifies alternatives for special or custom orders 
• Determine costs and sell amounts to maintain appropriate margins  
• Effectively review and evaluate architectural and electrical drawings  
• Read and review lighting specifications  
• Identifies potential projects for bid and compiles list of material requirements including, supplies, lighting, switchgear, and other distribution apparatuses 
• Ensure bid is inclusive of all mandatory requirements  
• Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen customer relationships  
• Stay current with new product information and emerging technologies  
• Communicates with customers to resolve problems with projects during bidding process 
• Follows-up on open and outstanding quotations with salespersons and customers to determine status 
• Communicates with account representatives, account executives, and inside sales reps to ensure quotes and resulting orders are complete. 
• Maintains catalogs and price lists. 

 Minimum Qualifications:   

• Lighting Estimating experience is preferred  
• 1-2 years customer service experience – electrical/lighting industry preferred  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills  
• Good and dependable mathematic skills  
• Excellent computer and Microsoft Office skills  
• Reliable, responsible, organized, detail-oriented and a great work ethic  

What We Offer You

We offer great family-friendly benefits to full-time associates:

We’re proud to be a military-friendly company, and our many employee resource groups (ERGs) help you make connections and feel supported.

Learn More About Us

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Learn more at https://careers.sonepar-us.com/worldelectric/us/en/home

World Electric is part of the Sonepar family of brands: https://www.soneparusa.com/us-en/about-us

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement 
Sonepar is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.   

Sonepar and our family of brands are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, we will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if a reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please call 843-745-2420 or email recruiting@sonepar-us.com.

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