Salon Outside Sales Representative

**Overview**

**Job Title: Salon Business Consultant**

**Great opportunity** Salon Business Consultant is a sales solution specialist role, covering and growing a territory in and around Sudbury, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins, Espanola, Elliot Lake, Blind River, Mattawa, Deep River, Pembroke, New Liskeard, Kirkland Lake, Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Kapuskasing, Hearst, Moosonee Ontario Canada (ON)
**Uncapped Commission**, vehicle reimbursement plan and full benefits
Salon/Beauty Industry experience highly preferred

**Essential Function**

The **Salon Business Consultant** is responsible for an assigned territory of customers to which their main focus is to help grow their salons overall sales. The Consultant will be responsible for meeting and achieving assigned sales goals by utilizing their manufacturer education and sales resources. Sales should be expanded upon through opening new doors and selling approved beauty products while introducing new products and concepts. The Consultant will actively use all forms of social media as an additional outlet to serve salons, barbers, spas, schools, and any licensed beauty professional.

**Primary Duties**:

- Grow the Business:

- Identify key accounts within territory and establish a route that will be most efficient to grow and develop existing customers while looking for new partnerships.
- Demonstrate and assist customers in developing, planning, implementing, monitoring and tracking results of all in-salon promotions, programs and concepts.
- Determine customers’ needs and offer products and services to meet those needs.
- Communicate all sales initiatives through partnering with vendors including but not limited to achieving corporate sales goals on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
- Analyze your accounts to decide what brand support, education, and promotions are needed to grow within that salon.
- Call on your customers in person in order to execute established sales goals.
- Strictly comply with established procedures regarding the processing of returns including the pick-up of returns from the customer and completing the required documents. Timely completion of assignments and projects that may be assigned.
- Work with all areas of business, custom.er service, accounts receivable, IT, and any other necessary business function provided entity.
- Actively prospect for new customers through cold calling, social media, and other digital outlets
- Effectively manage all administrative aspects of the role in a timely manner
- Attracting and retaining salon clientele by utilizing social media as a form of communication, promotion, education and product knowledge.
- Conduct effective in-person and virtual product knowledge classes.
- Communicate with the Manager regarding calls, visits, orders, status of sales progress, follow-up plans and any assistance needed.

- Grow Team and Culture:

- Attend all meetings, functions and events and maintain regular contact as established by the Company or Supervisor
- Must be available to attend shows, participate in the setup and dismantling of displays, booths, handling back stock as well as performing other physical activities that might be required.
- Support all new initiatives with a growth mindset while also positively fostering change management throughout the team

- **Grow Yourself**:

- Exhibit a desire to learn and grow. Striving for continuous improvement while owning personal development and growing digital & social media techniques to generate new customers and foster existing business relationships.
- Schedule and attend business development days (BDD) to increase product knowledge and develop professional vendor relationships.
- Allocate and optimize time to participate in learning utilizing all available tools and resources.
- Remain agile to changes in the market while building industry knowledge and intuition in order to react to a competitive market.
- Actively work to increase own product, industry, and market knowledge.
- Create an organized work environment and workflow to be able to most efficiently service your customers.

**Experience and Skills Required**

- High school diploma or equivalent certification.
- Minimum of (1) year demonstrated outside sales experience or beauty industry experience with emphasis on consultative selling.
- Must live within the assigned territory.
- Working knowledge of inventory control systems and visual merchandising is strongly preferred.
- Excellent knowledge and experience using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and other social media platforms to build pipelines, books of business, and other business needs.
- Ability to build an online community and create social connections, including but not limited to, using search engines and other internet tools.
- This position requires travel on a local level within the territory. It also requires attendance at shows, conventions, and educational events which may include overnight travel and/or some w