SHOWROOM SALES SPECIALIST

Description

• Maintains showroom samples and merchandising, including ordering, receiving, and maintaining models and displays. Ships customer examples as needed to drive sales. Maintains contact with suppliers/locally sourced vendors to keep current on design and product offerings and complies with Marketings standards for proper showroom merchandising, including new product launches and drops.
• Provides interior design advice and product expertise, facilitates tile and stone selection, and project development/support, ensuring the completion of selection/sales for all customers. Where applicable utilizing Auto-CAD Project Management.
• Plans and hosts showroom tours and small and large events for industry trade to drive customer sales. Attends outside trade events to develop industry relationships and build brand awareness.
• While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand, use hands, and reach with hands and arms. The associate must walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The associate may sometimes need to sit, climb or balance.
• Prospects for new business with an emphasis on Custom Builders and Residential Designers. Makes outside sales calls as needed and follows up on leads to grow and drive business. Logs all customer showroom visits/appointments, contact information, and detailed customer preference and selection notes in CMT.
• Logs all client showroom visits, contact information, and detailed customer preference and selection notes in CMT. Effectively communicates with customers and internal team members to follow the lead and ensure tracking/follow-up and sales closure. Reports sales closures monthly.

Requirements

• Computer skills MS Office, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Customer management tools a plus.
• Ability to approach unfamiliar situations and conceptualize innovative and imaginative solutions easily, using creative skills to document and sell them to clients.
• CompetenciesSales/Customer engagement/Customer service Design/sketching/reading blueprints/Auto-CAD a plus/color coordination/interior design trends/customer buying habits/creative thinking.
• The associate may lift and move up to 80 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Excellent oral, written, listening, and interpersonal communication skills necessary to effectively interact with customers, team members, management, and other internal and external customers to build positive interpersonal relationships with various business partners.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance