Job Information
Van-Wall Equipment, Inc. Inside Sales - Lawn and Garden Equipment in Urbandale, Iowa
Job Summary
Responsible for selling new and used lawn and garden equipment. Focuses on walk-in customers as well as phone calls and email inquiries.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
-Represents the company for the sale of machinery to walk-in customers
-Maintains current product knowledge on features and benefits of all equipment potentially sellable by the dealership, with an emphasis on greater than 90hp tractors, implements & attachments as well as other consumer products
-Monitors competitive activity/products and communicates feedback to management
-Retail-selling emphasis (understands task-oriented questions to ask, validates customer requirements, proposes solutions, offers demonstration and moves to close)
-Maintains all customer information for sales management
-Knows and follows a defined sales process
-Assists with the preparation and execution of customer events
-Conducts new equipment demonstrations
-Maintains current knowledge of financing options and sales promotions to assist customers with securing the purchase of new and used goods
-Attends applicable sales training events/seminars
-Ability to use the quoting tools provided in Pathways to submit information to the appropriate manager for appraisal
Position Qualifications
-1+ years of retail sales experience strongly preferred within the equipment industry
-Knowledge of lawn and garden equipment or operational practices preferred
-Ability to use standard desktop applications such as Microsoft Office and Google Drive
-Ability to work flexible hours
-Excellent customer relationship skills
-Ability to analyze and interpret basic sales reports
-High School Diploma or equivalent work experience