Strategic Appraisal Services Consultant

Description

Help clients make smarter asset decisions. As our Strategic Appraisal Services Consultant, you’ll be the go-to expert for trusted valuations on equipment, vehicles, and other assets. You’ll build relationships, uncover new opportunities beyond the auction space, and deliver insights that help clients navigate financing, insurance, and asset management with confidence.

The Strategic Appraisal Services Consultant will be the primary point of contact for clients seeking expert valuation services for equipment, vehicles, and assets. This position will focus on identifying, engaging, and securing business opportunities outside of the auction environment, providing clients with trusted valuation solutions that inform financing, insurance, and asset management decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain relationships with commercial clients across banking, construction, agriculture, and fleet industries.

• Identify new business opportunities for Purple Wave appraisal services, including equipment, trucks, and farm assets.

• Consult with clients to understand their valuation needs and recommend tailored appraisal solutions.

• Collaborate with internal appraisal teams to ensure accurate, timely, and client-focused valuation reports.

• Prepare and deliver proposals, presentations, and service contracts to prospective clients.

• Stay up-to-date on market trends, asset values, and sector-specific valuation challenges.

• Represent Purple Wave as a trusted advisor and promote the company’s appraisal services beyond auctions.

• Undertake additional assigned duties as requested.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Proven experience in sales, business development, or client management, preferably in banking, construction, agriculture, or fleet asset management.

• 4-6 years of above referenced experience preferred.

• Strong understanding of equipment and asset valuation concepts is a plus, but technical appraisal experience is not required.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.

• Self-motivated, results-driven, and able to work independently.

• Comfortable traveling to meet clients and attend industry events as needed.

• Spanish speaking bi-lingual candidates are encouraged to apply.

• Candidates may be requested to complete position specific skills assessments.

• Applicants must be either a U.S. Citizen or eligible to work in the U.S.

• Requires the ability to satisfactorily complete a background check.

• Candidates must possess a valid state driver's license.

Working Settings:

• Full-time Salaried Exempt, not eligible for overtime.

• Office hours are 8am-5pm, Monday through Friday, Central Time zone, additional hours may be required depending on priorities.

• This position is remote work eligible within the United States. Please be aware: the first week of employment includes mandatory in-person training. Remote start arrangements are not available.

• Potential for 35-40% travel.

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Compensation:

• The salary varies based on experience and qualifications, but typically ranges from $70,000 to $90,000 per year.

• Monthly Bonus Program - determined by the Company’s monthly revenue result.

• Monthly phone stipend in accordance with the Company’s cell phone policy, currently $120/month.

• Company vehicle provided.

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with an employer match up to 4% starting the first day of employment.

• Company-paid Life Insurance with options for supplemental coverage.

• Fully paid Short-Term Disability provided by the Company.

• 3 Weeks of PTO annually (details shared during onboarding).

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) - Eligible to purchase company stock at a discount after 90 days of employment, with enrollment opportunities each May and November.

Summary

About Purple Wave

Visit us at: PurpleWave.com

Purple Wave Auction is a leader in the equipment auction industry focusing on construction, ag, fleet, and government equipment.  We are a data-driven, quickly changing and evolving, growing organization.  Our focus is on marketing the assets we sell for our customers to find the highest quality bidders for the best recoveries for our sellers.  We strive to make this transaction Straight, Simple, and Sold.  We live daily by our core values of trust, team, care, and passion to be the place people want to work and our customers want to return to for their equipment buying and selling needs for their businesses.

Purple Wave Auction is the largest no-reserve Internet auction company in the Midwest.

• We have over 300 employees, nearly doubling in size in the last three years.
• We have a robust tech team and continue to invest in progressive techniques to enhance our services.
• While working at Purple Wave, you will have the opportunity to help our mission of being the easiest, most straightforward place to buy and sell used equipment. 
• Purple Wave empowers its employees to solve problems effectively in a family-run business culture.
• We provide opportunities for continued education as you grow your career with tuition reimbursement. We have a generous benefits package in one of the fastest-growing companies in the area.

Purple Wave is looking for an enthusiastic person to join our growing team to support our customers as we bring our values of Trust, Team, Care and Passion to them. 

Purple Wave Auction Core Values

• TRUST:  We are trustworthy…Our business depends upon our integrity and our customer’s ability to trust Purple Wave and its people:  to enforce a fair, transparent unreserved auction marketplace; to safeguard their bidding information; to give a full effort on behalf of their asset(s); We are transparent, accountable and fair.
• TEAM:  WE ARE A TEAM…We respect, support, appreciate and inspire each other; We communicate and follow-through; We need each other. We do our best work when we work together.
• CARE:  WE CARE…We care for our customers. We look out for their best interests. We work hard for them. We “go the extra mile”.
• PASSION:  WE ARE PASSIONATE…We are positive, we are enthusiastic, we take pride in our work, we own our responsibilities and we deliver; When we see problems, we fix them. We learn from our mistakes. We improve ourselves and Purple Wave every day; We believe Purple Wave can be the best marketplace for used equipment and we are committed to make it happen. 

Equal Opportunity Employer

Equal Opportunity is a Purple Wave, Inc. policy. It is our practice to select the best-qualified candidate for each position in the organization. No employee of the Company will discriminate against an applicant for employment or a fellow employee because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, or other physical or mental disability, military or veteran status. 

Notice of Background Check

As a condition of your employment, you will be required to sign the Company’s Authorization for Background Check, and to provide the Company with documents establishing your identity and right to work in the United States.