Are you a highly motivated talent with strong communication skills, looking to grow your career in sales and project coordination ? You will want to talk to us about growing on our team selling luxury windows/doors to the A+D Community (architecture, design and construction). Let’s talk today!
If yes, this is an exceptional career opportunity for you!
This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career by joining our dedicated team in delivering excellence in architectural windows and doors, selling to architects, builders, developers, designers and property owners.
As a specialized company Sales Representative, you will be an integral part of our customer service commitment, with a key role in promoting, specifying, and our luxury window and doors products within our team-based culture.
We are the premier supplier of custom architectural windows and doors in the Midwest with a beautiful office & facility in Mokena, IL and a by appointment - sales showroom in River North, Chicago, IL. We enjoy helping our clients create living art that’s unique to their vision by specializing in custom window and door designs for both commercial and residential properties.
Join us on this adventure, we are excited to talk with you!
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Job Overview
This stellar career opportunity is now available for a talented candidate with 4+ years’ sales experience, preferably in windows or building materials. This is a challenging yet rewarding opportunity that will allow you to grow your talents in delivering the highest level of customer service. You will be working on our team dedicating your talents to prospecting, lead generation, sales presentations, project sales estimating, project coordination and design assistance as well as attending national trade shows and company sales meetings, while empowering your entrepreneurial creative spirit.
Job Responsibilities
As a company professional, we will train you to build the outside sales efforts while participating in our collaborative, fast moving business environment as a dedicated team member focused on sales growth.
- Prepare and execute a weekly B2B sales outreach plan to earn business from clients in building and development including in-person sales calls, outbound phone calls, emails, virtual appointments, showroom/office visits, lunch and learns, product training and industry networking.
- Maintain company CRM (Pipedrive) collecting and updating proper documentation on all contacts and projects (prospective, current, past).
- Travel to and call on contractors, home building firms, larger remodelers, multi-family developers, architects, and specifiers and to earn their business in their specifying and purchasing our products.
- Appointments, and Presentations as scheduled in the Chicago showroom using this opportunity as a marketing and sales resource.
- Create estimates, proposals, specifications, contracts and present as a trusted advisor in assisting clients throughout the sales process.
- Ensure sales project scopes are clear and properly documented, while referring to existing conditions and building/remodeling plans.
- Assist in communicating schedules, deliveries and installations to set realistic expectations to meet delivery timelines.
- Research and source solutions proactively and be integral to handling customers and team members with expert. communications with integrity.
- Participate and prepare for project turn-over meetings from sales to project management teams.
- Manage and attend meetings, with documentation, processes and procedures.
- Update marketing upon completion of projects for promotions.
- Participate in industry networking and attend events to help build new sales opportunities and reciprocal relationships.
- Developing a keen understanding of our firm’s process and unique value proposition.
- Active in continued education with industry products, technologies and networking.
Skills For Success
- Solid understand of the construction process from scheduling, subcontractor/trade integration, and customer communications with 2+ years’ experience.
- Skills in successfully reading AutoCAD, Sketch-Up, and/or Revit.
- Associate’s degree in either Architecture, Construction, Interior Design or similar.
- Adaptable and flexible, eager to learn and explore new systems, procedures, materials, products, designs and operational improvements.
- Highly organized with excellent time management and priority setting skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A strong work ethic with an attention to detail to follow through.
- Strong self-motivation, with the ability to problem solve independently.
- Ability to manage time between our office for team collaboration and monthly meetings and outside field prospecting, sales meetings, presentations, site visits and client facing project meetings.
- Solid experience and skills working in MS Office, Excel, Outlook, CRM, Adobe Photoshop, and similar, Pipedrive estimating software a plus.
- Past success working on a team, setting and achieving goals and delivering excellence.
- A genuine desire and interest in helping others, building customer relationships and working with others in a friendly and confident manner.
- Maintains an active driver’s license, auto insurance, a clean vehicle and has a comfort-level driving travel for project work.
- Comfortable to travel both locally (driving) and nationally as needed.
Benefits: If you want to grow this is a stellar career growth opportunity for you, we will train you!
- Full-time position with the future growth potential!
- Competitive compensation based on experience.
- Employee Health Benefits.
- 401K with company matching.
- Opportunity to interact with clients and make a design difference.
- Exposure to the luxury design/build community, trade partners and the best
- resources.
- Join a growing company culture focused on design, creativity and integrity.
- Continued opportunities for excellent training, personal learning &
- development.
We look forward to meeting you and learning more about your talents and career aspirations.