Pros
-High base salary, especially if you stay with company and promote to senior sales executive. -Job Security -Brand Recognition -If you are willing to relocate there are many options for promotions -Home office, set your own schedule (to an extent)
Kontras
-Daily/weekly face to face call requirement is ridiculous (6/day; 30/week) -More "customer service" than sales; too much admin work -Bonus is based on overall territory performance, not a lot of control as a rep on shipping needs of customers. If customer business needs change and they don't need to ship as much, rep is negatively affected. -Lots of internal issue with accounts being misaligned to wrong rep, this benefits some, and detrimental to others in terms of territory goal attainment and bonuses paid. -You can work really hard and not get paid, or you can not work hard and get paid, seems like a coin flip at times. -For the amount of work you do, the compensation (bonuses) really isn't that great.