Sales Assistant

Barbizon Lighting Company; Woburn (MA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability

Profit sharing

401k plan

Job summary

Barbizon Lighting Company invites a Sales Assistant to join our Chicago, IL team, supporting the Sales department with quotes, orders, and client interactions. This role emphasizes showroom service, accurate quoting, and efficient processing while ensuring a welcoming, professional environment for visiting clients.

The ideal candidate will have strong MS Office skills, customer service orientation, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative setting, with prior sales experience in

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience in the lighting, entertainment, or architectural lighting industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support for sales teams, including preparing quotes, and responding to or forwarding incoming customer inquiries.
• Respond to customer inquiries enhancing customer interaction.
• Provide expert assistance to clients both in our showroom and via telephone.
• Accurate and efficient entry of quotes and meticulous order processing.
• Contribute to order fulfillment and proficiently manage customer expectations.
• Diligently work towards ensuring timely and accurate invoicing.
• Assist in coordinating impactful product demonstrations and related events.
• Uphold the standards of a clean, welcoming, and professional showroom.
• Assist in order fulfillment and warehouse duties.
• Stock checking and inventory management.
• Undertake any additional responsibilities as assigned

Skills

Microsoft Office

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Team collaboration

Media background

Sales experience

Warehouse experience

Job description

Join Our Team: Sales Assistant - Chicago, IL

Empower Your Career with a Leader in Entertainment Lighting

About Barbizon Lighting Company

Barbizon Lighting is not just a company; it's a beacon in the entertainment lighting industry, illuminating the path for theatre, television, film, education, and themed environments for almost 80 years. As the foremost supplier of entertainment lighting, rigging, drapery, expendables, and theatrical systems integration, we pride ourselves on blending the resourcefulness of a large international corporation with the personalized touch of a small business.

This Sales Assistant position is based in our Chicago, IL office, where we invite you to join our team, become part of our legacy.

Product And Expendable Division

Barbizon Lighting Company, a leader in providing lighting and rigging equipment for the entertainment and architectural industries, seeks a motivated Sales Assistant. The successful candidate will support the Sales department, assisting in preparing quotes and processing orders as needed. The Products and Expendables division specializes in furnishing top-tier equipment, expendables, and accessories to a diverse clientele, including feature films, professional theatres, broadcast facilities, educational institutions, universities, themed environments, and various other venues.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide administrative support for sales teams, including preparing quotes, and responding to or forwarding incoming customer inquiries.
• Respond to customer inquiries enhancing customer interaction.
• Provide expert assistance to clients both in our showroom and via telephone.
• Accurate and efficient entry of quotes and meticulous order processing.
• Contribute to order fulfillment and proficiently manage customer expectations.
• Diligently work towards ensuring timely and accurate invoicing.
• Assist in coordinating impactful product demonstrations and related events.
• Uphold the standards of a clean, welcoming, and professional showroom.
• Assist in order fulfillment and warehouse duties.
• Stock checking and inventory management.
• Undertake any additional responsibilities as assigned

Required skills include:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrate an unwavering commitment to exceptional customer service.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and adapt to a fastpaced work environment
• A film, theatre, or broadcast background would be an asset.
• Prior sales experience, spanning 3 to 5 years, would be a distinct advantage.
• Warehouse experience

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Experience in the lighting, entertainment, or architectural lighting industry, preferred.

Why Barbizon?

Embark on a career journey with Barbizon, and you'll find more than just a job. You'll discover a place where your contributions matter, a team that values your voice, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. We celebrate diversity, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do.

Join us at Barbizon Lighting Company, where your passion for lighting will illuminate the world.

The salary range for a Sales Assistant at Barbizon Lighting's Chicago location is currently $50,000 to $55,000 (Non-Exempt) per annum, depending upon experience. Please be aware, extensive industry experience or specific skills that fully match, or exceed what is required, may in fact increase this range. We strongly encourage all to apply.

In addition to the base pay listed here, Barbizon offers a generous compensation package including medical, dental, life insurance, long-term disability, profit share, and a matching 401k Plan at no cost to the employee. The Company fully funds Barbizon's healthcare benefits for all full-time employees and dependents.

Barbizon also offers a host of voluntary ancillary benefits that include affordable vision, pet insurance, additional life insurance, Flexible Spending Plan, Pre-tax commuter benefits, and Benefits VIP, a dedicated advocacy group that can help employees and their family members resolve benefits issues.

Barbizon offers fully paid vacation, sick/safe time, and an additional ten paid holidays.

Barbizon Lighting Company's largest shareholder is our employee group, which currently owns 51% of the company via an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP"). An ESOP is a qualified retirement plan that extends beneficial ownership of the business to its employees, at no cost to the plan participant.

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Policy

Barbizon Lighting provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants. It prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to a diverse workforce. To ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title 1 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact Barbizon Lighting's Corporate HR Department at 643 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10036.