Inside Sales Associate at Turtle & Hughes Inc. in La Porte, Texas

Job Description:

Why Turtle?
Are you looking to join a growing team of dedicated, driven, and passionate people who emphasize a work environment based on respect, collaboration, and diversity?

At Turtle, you will play a key role in our goal to listen, learn, and be helpful to every customer in need. With over 900 employees, spanning across the US, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, you believe that our people are our most valuable assets. Through our culture of innovation, education, and accountability, you ensure to create a space where Everyone Matters. We believe that EVERYONE can do extraordinary things and our mission is to create workplace that empowers our employees to be successful. It explains why our history spans 100 years and has led our standing as one of the nation’s largest independent electrical industrial distributors. You believe that by making the right choices, you can find the right solutions. That’s how we built our past. That’s how we’ll build our future.

About the Role

The Inside Sales Associate will market and sell Turtle aligned products and services into Industrial & Construction based customers. This position is expected to develop, grow, and maintain relationships that will increase exposure and build relationships with key customers to enhance long-term business prospects and profit.

What You'll Do

• Ability to respond to a variety of challenging circumstances while continuing to demonstrate superior selling skills for important customer services and applications


• Use industrial & electrical product knowledge to better communicate with customers


• Use negotiating skills while understanding and using sales techniques needed to close orders


• Prepare sales proposals that meet customer expectations


• Make customer presentations


• Willingness to learn about all aspects of electrical and industrial distribution

• Minimum 2 years of electrical/industrial distribution inside sales experience preferred.


• High School Diploma/GED Required


• Strong leadership and organizational skills.


• Excellent negotiation skills, interpersonal skills, and the ability to drive decisions with influence.


• Lighting and Gear product and application knowledge preferred.


• Excellent written and oral communication skills.


• Excellent customer service skills


• Professional phone demeanor

We offer a competitive benefits package. Some of which include:

• 401 (k) plan


• Health Insurance


• Dental Insurance


• Vision Insurance


• Life Insurance


• Paid Holidays


• Vacation


• Employee Negotiated Discounts.

Founded in 1923, Turtle is a fourth-generation, family-owned, and three-generation women-owned business, and one of the nation’s largest independent electrical and industrial distributors. Headquartered in Clark, NJ, our Electrical Distribution division operates 14 branches spanning from coast to coast. It is a significant force in the engineering and procurement of power distribution, automation, lighting, and energy projects, offering integrated services for the industrial and construction markets. Turtle Integrated division provides on-site MRO procurement, cost-saving, and spend analytics across the US and in Canada, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.

What To Do Next

You can begin by filling out our application online. If you want to learn more about Turtle, please visit our website www.turtle.com or our social medias! LinkedIn: @Turtle Instagram: @TurtleandHughes Facebook: @Turtle and Hughes Twitter: @turtleandhughes

Turtle is proud to be is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.