Barker and Stonehouse
Salesperson
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About the Role
We’re looking to recruit a dynamic, enthusiastic, and service-focused salesperson for our Gateshead store. If you are commercially minded and results-driven, we’d love to hear from you. With uncapped earning potential amongst other great benefits, read on to find out more.
Barker and Stonehouse are a stylish, family-owned business at the cutting edge of furniture retailing in the UK for over seventy-five years. We look for salespeople who are as exciting and distinctive as our furniture. Confident people who can build relationships quickly and share their unlimited enthusiasm for finding solutions and making customers happy. People who understand and respect our history but have an eye for the future.
What we offer:
- Uncapped earning potential, earning commission on every furniture sale
- 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) and a further service day after 5 years’ service
- Great training and development opportunities
- Staff Discount
- Company Pension Scheme
- Perkbox Benefit Platform
- Employee Assistance Programme
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Role Requirements:
- Inspire our customers with an in-depth knowledge of our products and their features and benefits
- Create a smooth sales process for our customers, including negotiating prices, processing orders, agreeing delivery arrangements
- Proactively keep up to date with innovation and trends in the industry
- Aim to exceed individual targets and KPI’s
- Support the store operationally, checking stock levels, getting ‘hands on’ with furniture deliveries and customer collects
- Ensure the store standards are maintained to a high level
Requirements:
- Experience in a retail sales environment, with exposure to furniture retail being advantageous
- A passion for providing an excellent level of service, always making the customer a priority
- A self-motivated approach, with the ability to work well as part of a team
- Confidence with computers, systems, and figures
- Effective and adaptable communication skills. Dealing with customers, suppliers, and colleagues face to face, over the phone, and via email
- Strong problem-solving abilities, thinking on the spot to overcome obstacles
- A flexible approach regarding work and working hours, which may include weekends and bank holiday working
- Good organizational skills, and an ability to move between tasks
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If you think you are the right fit for this role, please email your CV to kthornton@barkerandstonehouse.co.uk, Store Manager.
Due to high volumes, we are unable to acknowledge every application, only successful candidates will be contacted to discuss the role and their experience further. Barker and Stonehouse is an equal opportunities employer and complies with all GDPR policies.
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