Educated Solutions Corp
Quote Specialist
Vernon Hills, Illinois, US
Role snapshot
Educated Solutions Corp is hiring a Quote Specialist on a full-time basis. This is a hybrid role based in Vernon Hills, Illinois, US.
- Company
- Educated Solutions Corp
- Location
- Vernon Hills, Illinois, US
- Work mode
- Hybrid
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Posted
- Nov 6, 2026
Who this role suits
People with roughly one to three years of experience who can own small pieces of work with light guidance and want to widen their scope.
How to prepare your application
- Prepare two or three stories about work you owned end to end, including one thing that went wrong and what you changed.
- Read what Educated Solutions Corp publishes about its product or team, so you can say clearly why this role and this company.
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About the role
Our client, a video data infrastructure solution company based in Illinois is seeking a Quote Specialist to add to their Inside Sales team. This position initially acts as support to a 9 person Inside Sales Team delivering quotes and pricing for a variety of clients. Once trained the role then transitions into a member of the Inside Sales team. The HYBRID role works 3-4 days onsite in Vernon Hills, IL and works 1-2 days from home and includes normal M-F hours, no on-call hours, no travel, and delivers a strong benefit plan. The role pays $25hr-$27hr based on specific experience and will grow into a salaried role with commissions.
The key to this role is past experience working in a sales environment around price quoting and order entry, The incumbent will:
- Turn customer requests for IT hardware and video surveillance solutions into accurate, competitive quotes.
- Build quotes for 9 inside sales representatives
- Works from a daily queue and partners closely with Inside Sales to communicate to clients.
- Build accurate quotes in NetSuite from customer requests, bills of materials, and rep instructions, most under $100,000.
- Process revisions, re-quotes, and expiring quotes, and keep quote records current.
- Confirm part numbers, pricing, availability, and lead times with product and vendor teams.
- Apply pricing and margin guidelines, and escalate any request outside them to the owning rep.
- Log activity and hand off follow-up to the owning representative through Salesforce and NetSuite.
- Own quoting for a defined group of primary contacts with a 25% to 50% close rate, working alongside the Business Development Executives and the assigned inside representatives.
Qualifications
- 1+ years experience quoting, sales support, order entry, or inside sales, ideally with IT, security, or electrical distribution.
- Working knowledge of any ERP or CRM
- Strong attention to detail and comfort with spreadsheets and part-number-work.
- Clear, professional written communication with customers and internal teams.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools especially MS-Excel.
Preferred but not required
- Bachelors degree
- Experience with SalesForce technology
- Experience with NetSuite technology
- Familiarity with video surveillance, access control, or networking products.