Inside Sales and Customer Service
Consolidated Electrical Distributors
Salinas, CAJob$27–38/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Inside Sales and Customer Service role supports contractor and manufacturer customers by providing tools, support, and solutions. The position emphasizes customer-first service, problem solving, and collaboration with outside sales and other departments. Electrical-field experience is a plus, while the employer offers coaching and values initiative, teamwork, and a desire to grow.
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Summary
Job title: Inside Sales and Customer Service
Department: Salinas - CED
Description
Summary:
We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about putting the customer first. If you enjoy helping others succeed, love solving problems, and want to play a part in building up our local community, you’ll fit right in here. In this role, you’ll support our customers — from contractors to manufacturers — helping them get the tools, support, and solutions they need to do their best work.
Experience in the electrical field is a big plus, but attitude and a desire to grow with us matter most.
We’re a down-to-earth team that values initiative, collaboration, and people who care. If you bring the curiosity, we’ll bring the coaching.
Reports to: Profit Center Manager
Minimum Qualifications:
- Communication Proficiency
Additional Competencies:
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Customer/Vendor Focus
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Personal Effectiveness/Credibility
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Technical Capacity
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Teamwork
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Detail-Oriented
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Flexibility
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A “Customer First” Mindset – genuinely driven to help people succeed
Preferred Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience
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Familiarity with Computers and Microsoft Products
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Two years of experience in the electrical industry or similar field
Working Conditions:
This job operates in a professional office and warehouse environment. You’ll use standard office equipment, and occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds.
Supervisory Responsibilities: No
Essential Job Functions:
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Provide outstanding service to new and existing customers (phone, email, and in person)
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Accurately write and manage customer orders, following sales policies
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Maintain and strengthen existing customer relationships
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Proactively meet or exceed monthly sales goals
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Collaborate with outside sales and other departments to serve customer needs
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Offer ideas to improve processes and service
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Follow up on quotes, orders, and materials in a timely manner
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Stay up to date on new products and services we offer
CED is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Disability | Veteran
Compensation Range:
The compensation range for this position is $27 to $38 hourly.
Other Compensation:
The following additional compensation may be applicable for this position:
- Profit Sharing
Benefits:
Benefits available for this position are:
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Disability Insurance
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Life Insurance
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401(k)
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Paid Sick Leave
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Paid Holidays
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Paid Vacation
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Health Savings Account (HSA) and matching
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Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
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Teladoc
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Paid Pregnancy & New Parent Leave
How this job compares
Set against the 1,448 open Inside Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$27–38/hr
- California median$25–34/hr47 hourly ranges
- US median$22–30/hr382 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $32.50/hr, is 14% above the California median midpoint ($29/hr) — in the top quarter of Inside Sales hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 111 open Inside Sales jobs in California and 1,448 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- SCI Shared Resources, LLC15 open
- Accenture8 open
- United Rentals7 open
- Experience
- Inside Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (693 postings).
- Education
- 139 of the 1,448 open Inside Sales jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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