Overview
Outside Sales Hunter — Fleet & Hydraulic Accounts (Uncapped Commission) Jobs in Ames, IA at Automotive Lift Services
We don’t want an order-taker. We want a hunter who lands a whale and never lets go.
Ames Hydraulics — part of the Ragsdale Brands family — rebuilds cylinders, welds and fabricates, and keeps trucks, trailers, and heavy iron running for fleets, farms, cities, and contractors across central Iowa. We’re good at the work. We need someone great at going out and winning the accounts — the fleet with 80 trucks, the co-op, the city shop, the excavating outfit — and becoming the person they call first, forever.
THE PATH TO $100k+:
- Start with a real base you can live on while you build your book.
- Residual commission: you get paid on EVERYTHING an account buys, for as long as they buy. Land 5–10 good accounts and you’re already at $80k+.
- Great hunters here clear $85k and grow every year after — because the book you build keeps paying you.
- When you’ve proven you can land accounts AND own them, that’s exactly who we promote to run a territory or a branch. That seat clears $100k+ with profit share. No cap.
- We’re building this to go public. The hunters who build it with us get paid like owners.
WHO WINS HERE (the profile):
- Rejection doesn’t sting you. You’ve been told “no” a thousand times, and you walk into the next shop anyway.
- Asking for the sale feels natural — not pushy, just what you do.
- Talking to people all day — fleet managers, shop foremen, city buyers — energizes you instead of draining you.
- You’re money-motivated and honest about it.
- You’re consistent. You make the drops, you make the calls, you follow up. Every week.
- You take great notes. You remember what a fleet manager mentioned about their next tender.
- People LIKE talking to you. You’re direct, but you’re not a jerk.
- You’re smart — hydraulics, cylinders, wet kits, trailers, DOT — you’ll actually learn this stuff, and customers will trust you because you know it.
- Good with basic math (quotes, margins, load specs) and quick with numbers.
- Valid driver’s license — you’ll be on the road every day.
- Pig-headed discipline: when there’s a warm list, you call it hundreds of times. When there’s not, you cold call and knock on doors all day. When it takes nights and weekends to land the account, you work nights and weekends.
THE SEASON OF LIFE THIS FITS BEST:
- You’ve got the time, the freedom, and the ambition to go all-in. This is the season of your life to build a book that pays you for the next 20 years.
- Maybe you moved to central Iowa for school, or for a shot, or just because — and you’ve got something to prove to the people who said there was nothing here for you.
- You’re in the learning phase — no career locked in yet, and you’re looking for one worth building. You’d rather step into whatever needs solving that week than hide behind a job description. You go where the company needs someone.
- Big ambitions, few excuses.
DON’T APPLY IF:
- You want warm leads handed to you and a comfortable desk.
- “Point of contact” and “guarantee the quality” sound like too much responsibility.
- You want a capped salary and predictable days.
Mechanical background is a plus — hungry enough to learn it cold is required.
Led by Founder/COO Josiah Ragsdale. Send your resume to [email protected] or apply on indeed.
Pay: $37,440.00 – $85,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person
Title: Outside Sales Hunter — Fleet & Hydraulic Accounts (Uncapped Commission)
Company: Automotive Lift Services
Location: Ames, IA
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