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Showroom Advisor

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Showroom Advisor
Full Time 36.45 hours per week
Permanent Contract
Shifts available Monday - Sunday, 7.00am - 10.00pm
Competitive salary (£14.10 per hour / £26,945 FTE) with individual bonuses up to £250 per quarter for hitting targets, plus additional team incentives and a £3,000 award for the highest performing 3–5% of colleagues
B&Q Southend
We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. Every day, we give our millions of customers the ideas, advice, tools, and confidence they need to create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Showroom Advisor and you’ll help some of their boldest kitchen and bathroom ideas take shape.
What's the job?
Sales matter in this role, but your real focus will be the customer. You’ll ask questions and explore possibilities to recommend the right finance, products, and installation options. You’ll use software to produce inspirational designs that will bring customer projects to life. Coordinating multiple projects & supporting customers virtually and face to face, you’ll take our customers on a journey from inspirational ideas through to delivery, helping to make their dreams a reality.
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What we need:
- Great at using technology
- Brilliant communication and relationship-building skills
- Work closely with colleagues & installers
- Motivated by targets
- Confident in converting your designs into sales
- Work well as part of a team
- Good problem-solver
- Keen eye for design
- Flexible enough to work on a rota that includes weekends, evenings, and bank holidays
What's in it for me?
- Part of a great team, valued for who you are
- Commitment to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve
- Access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies
- Competitive salary
- Award-winning pension scheme
- ShareSave options
- 6.6 weeks holiday
- Payroll giving
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Shopping discounts
- Colleague wellbeing benefits
- Lots more!
- Generous breaks


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