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SalaryPhiladelphia, PA | Full-Time | Mon - Fri, 8:30am - 5:30pm
Summary:
No experience necessary! Are you passionate about customer experience, design, and building relationships? This is a career opportunity to become or to further existing skills as a professional lighting designer. Entrepreneurial individuals, with no prior experience, will learn what tools, calculations and materials are necessary to deliver complex lighting and control designs and help select the decorative component to residential lighting projects with unlimited earnings potential.
Essential Duties and Responsibilitiesinclude the following, other duties may be assigned:
- Selling to and building relationships with clients and assisting them with their Lighting Design.
- Additional lighting design will be necessary after receiving training in the fields of:
- Recessed, Under Cabinet (or lighting LED tape layouts)
- Lighting Control (dimming) and Motorized Shade packages
- Landscape design and calculation
- Smart Home Integration
- Reading blueprints and creating a fixture schedule, specifications and pricing
- Specify, price and order custom lamp shades
- Minor categories for self-study include:
- House-Vac, ventilation and other misc system layouts
- Warm Tile system layouts
- Use of JOBTRACK, our proprietary job management software
- Greet walk-in customers, answer phones, entering orders, taking deposits, managing the orders through the entire sale process:
- Including expediting backorders, returns and orders on hold
- Placing a purchase order directly with a vendor when appropriate
- Follow the company scripted greeting, sales presentation, quotations and cut sheets or other company directives relating to high service levels delivered to a client
- Occasionally Open / Close the store (if / when authorized)
- Participate in the company Quality System
- Walking the showroom floor daily. This will help familiarize you with the stock items, which are regularly changed out.
- Manage customer appointments via Google Calendars
Create a target list of architects, interior designers, home builders and follow up to build a book of clients
Qualifications
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Make Commissions.
- After a reasonable time following your hire date, 6-8 months, your manager will evaluate your volume of business and make the necessary training adjustments so that you have the full opportunity to maximize your volume.
- Desire to Learn & Succeed
- You will be presented with a variety of sample projects to work on and submit to your manager for review.
- Selling – Selling should follow the CSD Selling Policy, Process and Procedures
- For example, selling specific manufacturers directed by your manager.
- Organizational Support – Highly organized and detail oriented during the customer follow –up process; Service during and after the Sale!
- Follows policies and procedures; Completes administrative tasks correctly and on time; supports organization's goals and values
Ability to multitask while remaining calm in a highly visible atmosphere
Education and/or Experience:
High school graduate
Check Out Our Benefits
Medical Insurance - Choose between a traditional PPO and flexible health plan with a tax-free health savings account
Comprehensive and affordable coverage
- Preventative care covered at 100%
Access to the Blue Cross Blue Shield national network
Dental Benefits - Affordable coverage with annual exams, cleanings and xrays covered at 100% and rollover benefits.
Vision Benefits - Get yearly eye examinations and buy new lenses, frames, and contacts. Or skip the glasses and enjoy special discounts on LASIK procedures! You’ll have access to 70,000 provider locations across the U.S., including well-known retailers like Walmart and America’s Best Glasses.
401(k) for Comfortable Retirement - Colonial Electric matches 25% of your contributions up to 6% of your annual earnings..
Life Insurance & AD&D Insurance At Zero Cost - Colonial Electric offers all full-time employees life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance (AD&D) at zero cost to you.
Paid Time Off - Including vacation, personal time, paid holidays and more.
Colonial Paid Parental Leave - CPPL offers parents company paid time off to care for the birth or adoption of a child.
Colonial offers many additional benefits for employees and their families! Feel free to inquire about our complete benefits guide during the interview process.
