Sales Professional - Inside Sales

Lead Generation

• 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

Build Relationships with Families

• Responds 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

• Follows through on all customer problems and requests

• Builds 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

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

Minimum Requirements

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent

• 1-2 years of college or an equivalent of education and experience

Experience

• High school equivalency and 1-2 years of college or an equivalent of education and experience

• 1-2 years of customer service or sales industry experience preferred

Licenses

• Current state/province issued driver’s license with an acceptable driving record

• Insurance license if required by state/province law and as prescribed by each state board

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must be able to pass the Company’s internal presentation certification within thirty days of hire

• Ability to work a number of evenings and or weekends every month

• Ability to drive frequently

• Ability to obtain and maintain an insurance license if required by state/province

• Flexible hours but, at times must have the ability to work up to 12 hours in a day

• Ability to treat others with empathy and respect

• Knowledge of computers and some software

• Customer service skills

Compensation:

$50,000 to $100,000 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*Sick Leave*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

As part of your pre-employment background check, your criminal conviction history will be verified, given that this role requires the following material job duties: Working around and/or handling deceased individuals and working around families and colleagues. Convictions creating a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with the identified job duties may result in the withdrawal of a conditional job offer.

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