Sales Consultant

We are looking for driven, entrepreneurial sales professionals looking to yield uncapped earning potential!

About La-Z-Boy Southeast:

The most respected and recognized brand name in the furniture industry is La-Z-Boy. La-Z-Boy Southeast is a family-owned company founded in 1975. We independently own and operate eight La-Z-Boy locations in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Our company has recently been recognized and awarded:

• La-Z-Boy’s Global Retail Partner of the Year
• La-Z-Boy’s Global Ronald McDonald Charity Partner of the Year
• Named to Furniture Today’s top 100 list

Our product/sales training and In-Home Design Program give new consultants a solid foundation to begin building an extensive client base.

In 2022, our first-year sales consultants earned on average $98,742. Our tenured staff earned on average $116,000 with top performers earning over $180,000!

Learn more here: https://youtu.be/g7gJ5xayyH0

We are a drug-free workplace.

Responsibilities:

• Greeting customers, providing an exceptional level of engagement and discovering furnishing needs and opportunities
• Helping customers make informed purchasing decisions
• Maintaining and cultivating relationships with prospective clients and existing customers
• Encouraging clients to partake in our Interior Design Program
• Assisting customers through the entire buying process - from purchase to delivery
• Achieving and driving sales goals - monthly and yearly
• Preserving the established team environment

What is important to us in a Sales Representative:

• A willingness and ability to learn quickly, follow proven processes and care deeply about helping people.
• Commitment to bringing your best self to work every day.
• Ability to bounce back from rejection and not take it personally.
• Self-discipline - excellent self and time management - must be proactive and driven.
• A go-getter balanced with ethical caring.

Benefits:

• Solid and continuous job training
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurance
• Supplemental Insurance options available
• Matching 401(k) contributions
• Paid time off
• Profit Sharing Program
• Employee discount
• Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications & Preferred Skills:

• One year of sales experience desired - retail sales preferred
• Understanding of, or ability to learn, how to operate an Ipad
• Ability to build and maintain relationships
• Passion for working with people
• Basic computer knowledge
• Coachable, self-motivated individual ready to learn and improve
• Quick to connect and strong understanding of the sales process
• This position requires work on weekends and holidays
• This is a full-time position

Our Retail Sales Representatives bring a wide variety of sales and non-sales-related experience. We have previous high school and college athletes, hotel/restaurant associates, retail managers, stay-at-home parents returning to work, and much more! We hire for ambition, attitude, and ethics, then train for furniture knowledge and sales process.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to see well enough to read printed materials, computer screens, and across the gallery
• Must be able to hear well enough to communicate with other employees
• Must be able to sit, stand, and move around the gallery and occasionally walk briskly
• Must be able to kneel to pick up items from the ground
• Must be able to move furniture lifting to 50 pounds
• Must be able to type and hold an iPad