Sales Consultant

**Job Description - Sales Consultant**

**Functions**:

- Sale of vehicles
- Maintenance of Product and Industry Knowledge
- Interdepartmental Relations

**Competencies**:

- Ability to adapt
- Good math skills, able to quote payments and terms
- Continuous Improvement
- Customer Enthusiasm
- Good Judgement
- Must be well organized and has the ability to plan
- Teamwork
- Communication

**Reports to**:

- Sales Manager

**Management/Business Skills Required**:

- Knowledge of sales procedures, processes, and follow-up
- Ability to receive customers
- Ability to effectively relate to customers of all backgrounds and to focus on customer enthusiasm
- Knowledge of company vehicles (prices, models, series, options, warranties, vehicle maintenance, colors, standard equipment, specifications)
- Ability to network, follow up on prospects, and ask for referrals
- Ability to counsel customers (regarding their likes, dislikes, needs)

**Work Orientation Factors**
- Much customer contact
- Work 2 Saturday's per month
- Moderate stress
- Much contact with people in all dealership departments

**Position Summary**
- The Sales Consultant: _
- Is focused on the process of understanding and meeting customer needs.
- Must have basic knowledge of automotive systems and thorough knowledge of prices, models, series, options, and other variations of the manufacturer's products.
- Should know much about competitors' products and prices.
- Should demonstrate sensitivity toward customers and a strong interest in exceeding customers' expectations.
- Must have polished communication skills with customers, including the ability to present the dealership’s products and to pinpoint customers' needs by interviewing and questioning.
- Must calculate cost allowances, fees, taxes, and down payments to arrive at the price of a vehicle.
- Must work with the Sales Manager in completing sale contracts that meet customers' needs.
- Is capable of addressing customer hesitation and resistance.
- Presents a positive image of the dealership, both in mode of dress and in helpful and friendly attitude.
- In conjunction with the Sales Manager, determines personal sales goals and the methods by which those goals will be met, which affords the Sales Consultant a structured method of building a clientele and achieving success.
- Works systematically not only in the sales process but also in the process of handling the many administrative requirements of the position (e.g., paperwork, plans, reports, and the maintenance of a prospect and owner follow-up system).

**What the Worker is Like?**
- The Sales Consultant: _
- May be hired with no prior sales experience or might come to the dealership with a background in insurance, real estate, or retail sales.
- Must have a positive attitude and bearing.
- Comes to each prospective sale with the same smile and engaging nature.
- Genuinely enjoys customers and engages them in purposeful conversations that gather information important to a sale, and probes for possible alternative suggestions and ideas.
- Works readily with numbers and can discuss the company's products with accuracy and assurance.
- While capable of working with a Sales Manager, is an accomplished self-manager when it comes to using time productively.

**What the Work is Like?**
- The work of the Sales Consultant: _
- Entails knowing the entire dealership thoroughly, department to department.
- Involves continual learning about new approaches to sales, new information regarding products, new administrative efficiencies, and customers.
- Requires building strong interdepartmental relationships, particularly with the Business Department and Financial Services, and paying close attention to the requirements of those departments within the process of selling.
- Involves risk and satisfaction, long hours, and much teamwork.

**Salary**: Up to $120,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- Vision care

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Commission pay

COVID-19 considerations:
All required Covid 19 precautions taken.

**Education**:

- Secondary School (required)

**Experience**:

- sales: 2 years (required)

**Language**:

- Fluent in English (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Class G Licence (required)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (required)