Contemporary Concepts
Now Hiring: Territory Sales Representative
Reports To: Regional Sales Manager Travel: 3–4 nights per week within your assigned territory
About the Role
Contemporary Concepts is a Christian organization that partners with funeral homes and local businesses to provide memorial bereavement volumes that comfort grieving families and strengthen community support. As a Territory Sales Representative, you'll manage and grow your own protected, small-town-centric territory — renewing existing sponsors and securing new business sponsorships through in-person, relationship-focused outside sales. Sponsorship contracts run two years, during which time families in your community receive the bereavement volume on behalf of local sponsors.
What You'll Do
• Manage and grow a protected, small-town-centric territory through consistent field activity
• Conduct 50–60 in-person sales calls weekly on funeral homes and potential business sponsors
• Generate leads and warm referrals through fact-finding, strategic daily planning, and an organized pipeline
• Close 6–8 new sales per week when actively working a town
• Renew existing sponsor partnerships on a two-year cycle
• Submit contracts and weekly paperwork to the home office
• Collaborate with your Regional Sales Manager and partner with fellow reps for peer learning
• Represent Contemporary Concepts with professionalism, integrity, and alignment to its Christian mission
What We're Looking For
• 1+ year of successful outside B2B sales experience preferred, but not required
• Proven resilience in face-to-face sales — comfortable overcoming objections and handling rejection
• Strong organizational and self-management skills; able to work autonomously
• Valid driver's license and personal automobile with adequate insurance
• Willingness and ability to travel 3–4 nights per week
• Alignment with Contemporary Concepts' Christian mission and values
Helpful Background
• B2B advertising sales, fundraising, Chamber of Commerce, real estate, hospice, funeral industry, or human services experience
• Experience working in small towns or rural markets
• Strong people-connection skills and comfort initiating conversations with new contacts
Training & Growth
• 3 week structured training program with field mentorship and ride-alongs
• Ongoing coaching from your Regional Sales Manager and veteran reps
• Opportunities for territory expansion and long-term leadership roles as we grow
Ready to build a meaningful career serving communities? Apply today.
Contemporary Concepts is a family-owned company based in Gastonia, North Carolina, that has served families across the country for more than 40 years. We partner with funeral homes and local sponsoring businesses to mail comforting, faith-based bereavement books to families who have recently lost a loved one. Our mission is to faithfully steward what God has entrusted to us, using our business to create greater impact, serve with excellence, and bless everyone who is part of our purpose. We are guided by a long-term perspective that values lasting relationships over short-term wins, an uncompromising commitment to integrity, and a higher purpose that keeps us grateful, humble, and mindful that true success belongs to God.