Career Opportunities - CED Pacific NW

What sparks you?

Consolidated Electrical Distributors thrives when we have a team of motivated, enthusiastic individuals working at each of our locations and ensuring quality service at every level, and we’re always looking for more to join the team. Opportunity is all around you. With 700+ locations around the country, CED is one of the nation’s largest privately owned electrical distributors in a $115 billion industry. Find your opportunity today.

Be a part of something big

CED is one of the largest electrical solutions distributors and product suppliers in the country, specializing in residential, commercial, industrial and solar projects. By training and bringing in talented, energetic people, we’re able to bring industry professionals together and facilitate the best electrical solutions for our customers, who are powering your homes, buildings and manufacturing the things you use every day. Our commitment to quality has made us one of the nation’s largest distributors of electrical products and services.

OPPORTUNITIES

Big Sky Division Opportunities

21 locations span four States in the Northwest: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Eastern Washington. The robust mix of market segments, and rich variety in environments offer a dynamic range of career opportunities.

Cascade Division Opportunities

With 21 locations in Oregon and Washington, markets covered include the I-5 Corridor from Bellingham to Medford, the Olympic Peninsula, and the Oregon Coast and Interior. All market segments are represented, both Metro and Rural.

Big Sky and Cascade Divisions Recruiter

Makayla DiBenedetto

CED Cascade and Big Sky Division Recruiter

500 Yale Ave N • Seattle, WA 98109

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Management Training Program

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Join our competitive management training program that sets you on the path to run your own location.

Our management training program teaches top candidates every skill for every job in each facet of our fast-paced, profitable industry. We take you into the heart of what we do through a five phase, 2 to 3 year structured rotational program that’s tailored to meet your learning needs and set you up with all the tools to successfully manage your own location.

Phase 1: Warehouse Training

Start on the bustling ground floor as you get to know the CED team and our products. You’ll learn how to safely operate equipment, ship and receive inventory, process paperwork, handle back orders and organize a warehouse.

Phase 2: Counter Sales Training

This phase focuses on revving up your product knowledge while developing your customer service skills. You will dive deeper into understanding product application and work at the forefront of our business.

Phase 3: Operations Training

Learn what happens behind the scenes to allow CED products to touch every home, business and development property in the country. You'll learn the ins and outs of our credit office, service center and administration.

Phase 4: Customer Service Training

Inside Sales: Relationships are critical to this business, so we'll arm you with techniques to master phone sales and joint calls with outside salespeople. We'll teach you how to interpret blueprints, understand job project management and to bid and quote jobs.
Purchasing: You'll learn how purchasing decisions are made and executed, as well as controlling inventory, write downs, and supplier returns.

Phase 5: Outside Sales Training

In the final phase of CED's training program, you'll be in the field, incorporating everything you've learned to build contacts, make sales and grow market share. By the time you graduate from the program, you'll understand how to capitalize on the skills and resources you've developed.

Sales

Outside Sales

As the market face of CED, the Outside Sales position is responsible for marketing and selling products and service to companies outside of the office. Gaining new business is the main goal of this position and our Outside Sales reps do so by completing market research, developing relationships with both new and current customers, and identifying business opportunities.

Inside Sales

As a part of the Inside Sales team, you will be responsible for not only receiving orders from active customers and generating sell price quotes, you are managing customer accounts needs through out the journey, online and off.

Counter Sales

An integral part in the face-to-face interactions of CED, the Counter Sales position is responsible for helping customers who pick up merchandise from one of our locations. During these interactions, you will handle in-quires about products and services, work with transactions and guide customers to what they need to get their jobs done.

Project Sales

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Our sales professionals have the freedom and flexibility to conduct business in whatever way works best for them. You’re on the front lines, connecting with customers and communicating their options to help them succeed. Sales positions at CED include outside sales, inside sales, counter sales and project sales.

Operations

These are the folks who make our day-to-day operations run as smoothly and effectively as possible. There are multiple operational roles available encompassing everything from warehouse management to product delivery to purchasing.

Candidates who excel in operational roles are detail-oriented, organized, efficient and work well with others. If that sounds like you, consider applying for one of our operations roles around the country and running the important behind-the-scenes work at CED.

Operations Management

How does everything in a location work together? This is where the operations individuals come in. They ensure everything that runs the location such as billing, inventory cycle, infrastructure, systems and more runs as efficiently as possible.

Purchasing

It’s no easy task to keep the right inventory, at the right quantities and at a fair price. Our locations are looking for individuals that can help manage that process so we can suit the needs of our customers.

Warehouse

Be a part of the warehouse process that involves checking in material, organizing the inventory, fulfilling orders and assisting to increase efficiency.

Delivery

Every location has a warehouse and every one of them needs someone to help get the products from our warehouses to the customers’ job site or location, when they need it.

BENEFITS

CED has a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that offers coverage for medical, dental and vision insurance as well as other voluntary supplemental insurance plans. CED provides basic life and disability insurance for all full-time employees and offers additional voluntary coverage for the employee, spouse, and dependent children. CED offers a 401(k) plan with a broad variety of investment funds to allow you to personalize your retirement portfolio.