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Our VMI team plays a key role in ensuring Field’s customers experience exceptional service and inventory reliability. The VMI rep is friendly, organized, detail oriented, a problem solver, results oriented, possesses the ability to work with limited direct supervision, and can effectively represent Field while working within a customer location or on the road. The focus of this position is to provide on-site customer service for our customers while monitoring, ordering, and replenishing customer inventory of our parts. 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