The M-Geough Company Hiring for Sales Associate/Fabrics & Wallcoverings Job at Boston, MA Full Time

Overview
Our Fabric & Wallcovering Guru is responsible for maximizing and growing revenue and profits utilizing an assigned client list while expanding opportunities with those existing customers and acquiring new business. The key responsibility of this role is to conduct business in a way that creates a superior customer experience that will set the stage for effective sales follow-up, as well as future product sales. The right candidate will be energetic, passionate, and creatively driven.

Key responsibilities:

· Seek out and develop accounts, identify key players, and generate interest with those clients with a large focus on the textiles and softgoods

· Drive relationship through product and workplace knowledge

· Become a trusted resource and develop superior relationships with your tribe

· Successfully manage and overcome customer objections and opportunities

· Keep detailed, accurate and copious notes and update customer interaction into the company’s database enabling accurate follow through at some later date

· Maintain an appropriate level of sales activity while conducting a minimum number of sales appointments per week, as designated by the sales manager

· Monitor market conditions, and respond with product innovations from our manufactures while engaging with the design community to grow your own portfolio of business

· Value a team approach over an individual goal

· Collaborate with a highly motivated sales and creative team

Qualifications and Values

Our Core Values:

· Continuous Improvement Both for our own professional development and for the services we provide our clients, becoming an ever better version of ourselves and for our clients is important to the very core of
M-Geough. We want to improve and innovate constantly and consistently; this is a core value that is important to the organization and our success.

· Rolling Up Sleeves– No matter your level in the organization, you must be willing to dive in head first to get work done and support the team. No one is above lending a hand and ensuring what needs to get done to achieve success is done.

· Transparency– We believe in being honest with our clients and with ourselves in order to become the best people, co-workers, and advisors to our clients that we can be.

· Creativity– Our clients rely on our ability to be creative, to think “outside of the box”, and to deliver winning solutions when the occasional project does not go according to plan. Being creative at M-Geough is a core value and should be fostered on a personal and professional level.

· Experiences– Learning by experience is the way we grow. We should not be afraid of failure if we are trying, learning, and moving forward. We should push ourselves to try new things both personally and professionally.

Key Qualifications:

o BS or BA degree preferred or comparable industry experience

o Or Previous sales experience in high-end or luxury home furnishings business preferred

o Knowledge or appreciation for interior design, textiles, and wallcovering

o Initiative to build a strong client base

o Ability to provide exceptional customer service,

o Think critically and creatively

o Superb organizational skills and use of time wisely

o Provide excellent communication to clients, sales team and management

o The desire and drive to be a team player

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $68,000.00 – $72,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Experience:

• Customer service: 3 years (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

Work Location: One location