Bassett Design Consultants

Bassett Furniture; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid training

Health / Dental / Vision coverage

Generous Employee Discounts

Showroom work environment

Job summary

Bassett Furniture is seeking a Design Consultant who can turn customers' dream rooms into reality through personalized in-home design consultations and relationship selling. You will translate client tastes into design choices, present product solutions, and build lasting relationships while working in a commission-based sales environment.

The role emphasizes design passion, strong sales performance, and excellent communication in a showroom and client-offsite setting.

Qualifications

• Passion for design and helping customers visualize room concepts.
• Strong drive to meet or exceed sales goals.
• Ability to discern and coordinate colors and textures to fit client taste.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for relationship selling.
• Friendly, outgoing personality with a professional appearance.

Responsibilities

• Build meaningful, long-term customer relationships through in-home design consultations.
• Present and sell product and design solutions to customers.
• Create, present, and translate customer wants into design choices.
• Collaborate with team to maximize selling opportunities.
• Drive to customers’ residences and businesses for on-site consultations.

Skills

Design passion

Sales goal driven

Color coordination

Communication skills

Friendly personality

Positive mindset

Self-motivation

Computer proficiency

Desire to learn

Sales success track record

Polished image

Career-minded professionalism

Active listening

Tools

Computer proficiency

Job description

Would you like to help customers see their dream rooms become a reality?

If you are a positive and motivated professional with a passion for design, possess exceptional selling skills, and a love for building customer relationships, then Bassett Furniture has the opportunity for you!

Job Description

Our Bassett Design Consultants are responsible for building meaningful and long‑term customer relationships. They have comprehensive knowledge ranging from furniture construction to design trends. They use “relationship selling” techniques through in‑home design consultations to maximize selling opportunities. Our design consultants take joy in the design process!

Job Qualifications

• Passion for design
• Highly driven to meet or exceed sales goals
• Discern and coordinate colors and textures
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Friendly outgoing personality
• Positive outlook
• Self‑motivated to clientele
• Computer proficiency
• Desire to learn
• Proven track record of success in sales
• Polished image
• Career‑minded professionalism
• Ability to listen and translate customer wants into design choices

Job Requirements

• Willingness to work weekends, evenings, and holidays.
• Desire to work in a commissioned sales environment.
• Dedicated to being a supportive team member.
• Capable of thriving in a varied paced retail environment.
• Creating, presenting, and selling product and design solutions.
• Ability to drive to customers’ residences and businesses for design consultations.
• Engaging customers to determine their needs according to taste, lifestyle, and investment range.

Training

The Bassett Brand is brought to life by the people who shape the customers’ experience. Our training programs are designed to help each associate create a meaningful career at Bassett.

As part of our in‑depth training program, you’ll learn product knowledge, sales techniques, design skills, and how to build a base of loyal clients. You’ll do this through comprehensive online classes, videos, hands‑on activities, and one‑on‑one coaching. We provide continuing opportunities to learn throughout your career at Bassett.

Our most successful sales people have a creative personality and passion for design. Through our one‑on‑one coaching and educational development, we will help you build relationships with customers to help them reflect their own personal sense of style. We’ll also show you how to effectively use our complimentary design service as a powerful tool for developing customer relationships and providing increased sales.

Opportunity

With our generous commission‑based compensation plan, your income is limited only by the amount of effort you apply. In addition to our commission compensation, there are other bonus opportunities.

Benefits

• Paid training
• Health / Dental / Vision coverage
• Generous Employee Discounts
• Work in a state‑of‑the‑art showroom

What sets Bassett apart?

Bassett’s blend of style, comfort and value has been trusted for more than a century (since 1902) and makes it one of the most recognizable furniture brands in America. Today, Bassett has taken its craftsmanship and built a reputation of quality custom furniture. We are passionate about developing fashionable and innovative furnishings at a great value, as well as offering a number of exceptional services to meet customers’ needs. We are proud of our long‑standing heritage but, at the same time, squarely focused on innovating furniture retailing in the next 100 years.

Take steps now towards building a meaningful career with a growing company. Apply to join the team at Bassett today!

Bassett Furniture Industries is an equal‑opportunity and affirmative‑action employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, veteran status or other protected category. Bassett is dedicated to ensuring that qualified applicants are employed and that employees are treated consistently during employment, without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, veteran status or other protected category.

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