Customer Service Representative
Blue Collar Recruiter
Job Summary:
The Replacement Sales Representative assesses homeowner needs, develops and presents HVAC comfort solutions to new and existing residential customers.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities*:
- Generates leads through customer referrals, door hangers and other marketing avenues
- Recommends solutions and linked to customer objectives
- Builds rapport with customers by observing and perceiving customer’s interests and emotions
- Builds sustainable relationships with customers to cultivate future business
- Presents products and generate lead and sales opportunities to Big Box associates
- Maintains a closing ratio on technician-generated leads of 70% or higher
- Maintains a closing ratio on marketed leads of 50% or higher
- Maintains an average sale price set forth by the brand
- Performs required surveys on every call
- Completes all paperwork in a timely and accurate manner on all leads, including financing paperwork and the collection of cash payments
- Conducts daily activities with the highest level of honesty and integrity and always displays a positive attitude toward fellow Team Members and customers
- Arrives at all appointments and meetings ahead of schedule
- Provides 100% satisfaction to each customer
- Prepares estimates for contracts and proposals
- Follows-up on sales leads and lists, both self-generated and via other sources
- Manage multiple opportunities particularly focusing on selling service agreements and new equipment
- Sell, renew and expand renewable service agreements, to both new and existing customer
- Follows all company policies and procedures, including but not limited to safety
- Other duties as assigned
* Duties may vary by location.
Minimum Requirements:
- 1+ years’ experience in outside sales
- High school diploma or GED
- Proven track record of sales success
- Intermediate computer skills and able to use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
- Strong relationship building skills, customer focused and disciplined
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills
- Strong presentation skills.
- Must be able to communicate in English effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Valid driver’s license required
- Ability to work overtime with little notice; weekend hours may occasionally be required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3+ years’ experience in outside sales
- In-home service agreement sales and estimating experience
- Knowledge of HVAC equipment
- Bilingual English/Spanish
- Completed college coursework
Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Consultative and collaborative selling approach
- Must be organized and able to coordinate a large volume of requests
- Proactive mindset
- Must be able to work independently
- Mechanical aptitude
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task
- Willingness to learn and be a part of a team
- Positive attitude and a team player
- Ability to build positive relationships with customers, both internal and external
- Willingness and ability to work collaboratively with all levels of the organization.
- Safety mindset and acceptance of a safety culture
- Related experience may be substituted for education
Working Conditions:
- Partial time spent in an office environment
- Partial time spent in the field in customer homes
- Travel by vehicle to and from work locations
- Comfortable working both indoors and outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions (including heat, rain, cold and wind) while wearing appropriate PPE
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to drive and operate a motorized passenger vehicle or forklift
- Must be able to lift/move up to 50 pounds frequently
- Frequently performs tasks requiring climbing, bending at the waist, crawling, kneeling, crouching
- Must be able to work at heights, climb ladders and stairways, and occasionally work on platforms/scaffolding (using the appropriate fall protection requirements)
- Must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) including but not limited to hard hat, safety glasses, ear plugs, masks/respirators, reflective safety vests, gloves and safety toe, construction-grade work boots
- Must be able to adhere to long periods of standing, walking or sitting
- Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and/or other sounds to operate phones or other equipment safely.
- With natural or corrected vision, able to see and focus for close, distance, peripheral vision with normal depth perception
- Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to others
- Ability to enter text or data into a computer by means of a traditional keyboard or 10-key numeric keypad
- Must be able to use arms and hands to reach overhead, signal, grab, hold, lift, turn, push and pull objects and tools