Sales Professional - Inside Sales

Job Responsibilities

• Holds self-accountable for prospecting a minimum of 1-2 hours each day.
• Obtains referrals from families served by the location.
• Networks and builds community and civic relationships.
• Explains and presents presentations to families served and referred families.
• Maintains and tracks activity levels to ensure productivity.
• Builds relationships with families by responding to client inquiries in a timely, respectful, sensitive, and professional manner.
• Connects with families through listening, honest communication, and genuine concern.
• Develops an understanding of each family’s unique needs and offers solutions that provide value to them.
• Stays in touch with families to ensure satisfaction.
• Prepares for all appointments and performs all procedures with professionalism and attention to detail.
• Fulfills all customer problems and requests.
• Buys trust-based relationships to earn the right to ask for referrals.
• Earns the right to gain referrals to offer protection to protect family members, and the family’s relatives and friends, by educating them on the benefits of pre-planning.
• Represents a continuous link from services provided at need, through aftercare, to providing services to protect families in the future.
• Collaborates and teams with funeral directors, location managers, and other members of funeral home and or cemetery staff, to provide seamless, high quality service.
• Thoroughly and completely reviews previous services and contacts with families to prepare to support current needs and or sales.
• Shares family concerns with rest of the SCI team.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: 1-2 years of college or an equivalent of education and experience.
• Experience in customer service or sales industry is preferred.

Teamwork

• Represents a continuous link from services provided at need, through aftercare, to providing services to protect families in the future.
• Collaborates and teams with funeral directors, location managers, and other members of funeral home and or cemetery staff, to provide seamless, high quality service.
• Thoroughly and completely reviews previous services and contacts with families to prepare to support current needs and or sales.
• Shares family concerns with rest of the SCI team.

Compensation and Benefits

• Compensation: $55,000 to $70,000 targeted compensation (with higher earnings potential based on exceptional performance).
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Accounts (health care and dependent care), Health Savings Account with Company Contribution, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Voluntary Accidental Death or Dismemberment Insurance, Dependent Life Insurance, SCI 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company match, Employee Assistance Program.