Sales Accelerator Program

Work Location Type: Remote 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details:

The Grainger Sales Accelerator Program is designed to provide a broad learning experience for recent college graduates or early in career aspirants interested in developing into a Field Account Representative role in the outside sales organization. During the program, participants are exposed to an intentional set of learning experiences, including calling on our current customer base, expanding contacts at existing customer locations, aligning the right products and solutions to meet customer needs and demonstrate Grainger’s value. Team members will have the opportunity to interact with multiple parts of the field sales organization, gain in-depth knowledge of the business, and develop relationships with leadership at every juncture. In addition, the role provides team members exposure and learning through others via our internal business organizational units such as Marketing, Merchandising, Sourcing, eComm, Inventory Management and Supplier Management.

The Sales Accelerator position is remote during an ~6-month duration. Upon successful completion of the program, your Grainger career will continue in an outside field sales territory where you may be required to relocate for your placement.

You Have:

• Enrolled in a college or university working towards a bachelor’s degree graduating between December 2024 and June 2025
• This role may include overnight travel (up to 15-20%)
• Work location is remote; must have a dedicated workspace free of distractions.
• No visa sponsorships provided now or in the future.
• Have a valid driver's license.
• Open to relocation

You Will:

• Have a desire to work and perform in a Sales environment.
• Model Grainger Edge Principles
• Collaborate in a team environment and participate in end-to-end learning activities.
• Have a Global mindset to grow in a diverse culture and environment.
• Work and develop relationships with a diversified population of business leaders.
• Maintain an understanding of and can articulate Grainger’s sales industry segments and services solutions.
• Maintain account and customer contact and record follow up details in Salesforce.com.
• Build a Plan to Win: Touch every customer, expand contacts, and sell value.
• Work with Customer support teams to align the right products and solution to the customer.
• Increase sales with each account while utilizing a wide array of available communication channels to maximize revenue.
• Achieve or exceed reported metrics of daily calls and customer face time interactions.

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health, and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans
• Generous paid time off (PTO) and six company holidays per year
• Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period.
• Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement.
• A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical, and social wellbeing programs

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.

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