Counter Sales Representative

About the role

Average of 1-3 years of building material knowledge and sales experience is preferred. Mid-Cape Home Centers traces its roots back to 1895 and today supplies professional builders, remodelers and homeowners in Massachusetts’ South Shore, Cape Cod and the Islands with lumber and specialty building materials from its six locations in the southern coastal region of Massachusetts.

Responsibilities

• Greet and interact in a positive manner with customers.
• Assists with questions regarding merchandise, location of merchandise in store, pricing, and promotions.
• Processes customer sales through use of cash register.
• Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits and processes according to company standard procedures.
• Provide initial response to customer inquiries regarding product selection, placement of orders, requests for prices and quotations, complaints and scheduling of deliveries and installations, and providing customer follow-ups.
• Purchase special products and obtain information on pricing specifications, uses and availability.
• Attend assigned training and meetings as required to increase knowledge of entire product offering.
• Create accurate and complete invoices, work orders, and sales tickets. Code and input customer orders, pricing information and additional data into the computer system.
• Issue refunds or credits to customers with manager approval when necessary.
• Bag, box, or wrap merchandise; prepare packages as necessary.
• Correctly maintain all cash levels at the registers, compute and record totals of transactions.
• Responsible for appearance of the showroom, the physical integrity and pride of the showroom. Maintain store environment including doors, floors, windows, ceilings, restrooms, and workstations.
• Clean and dust products, displays and face of the products.
• Maintain stock levels on the sales floor and in the stockroom.
• Absorb and distribute product knowledge to customers.
• Assist with physical inventory.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Commitment to providing excellent customer service, strong oral and written communication skills.
• Maintenance of professional demeanor.
• Must be detail oriented and highly observant.
• Must be able to multi-task.
• Must possess good mathematic skills. Able to use a calculator and computers.
• Knowledge of building materials, applications, related equipment, and/or construction industry.
• Good interpersonal and customer relations skills, vendor knowledge, ability to read, write and perform basic mathematical calculations and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to read and understand blueprints.
• Must be able to drive and walk throughout yards, plants and offices, computer literate with Microsoft Office products and Trend system.
• Ability to work Saturday and evening schedules as required.

Skills And Abilities

• Commitment to providing excellent customer service, strong oral and written communication skills.
• Maintenance of professional demeanor.
• Must be detail oriented and highly observant.
• Must be able to multi-task.
• Must possess good mathematic skills. Able to use a calculator and computers.
• Knowledge of building materials, applications, related equipment, and/or construction industry.
• Good interpersonal and customer relations skills, vendor knowledge, ability to read, write and perform basic mathematical calculations and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to read and understand blueprints.
• Must be able to drive and walk throughout yards, plants and offices, computer literate with Microsoft Office products and Trend system.
• Ability to work Saturday and evening schedules as required.

Benefits

Mid-Cape Home Centers, a division of US LBM Holdings, LLC, is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, order of protection status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.