What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Associate position at Altice USA?
We are Altice USA; a family of businesses that includes Optimum, Optimum Mobile, Optimum Business, A4 advertising, Cheddar, and News12. Our common goal is connecting our customers to friends and family, shows they love, advertising that resonates and news that matters. We're building a workforce that thrives on collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. We hope connecting you to a potential role is just the beginning.
You are part of building and creating a new partnership with our customers. Focusing on a positive experience by thoughtfully listening and guiding customers as they look to pair products and services. It is key to be knowledgeable on all aspects of mobile service including guiding on billing or service questions, processes payments, and exchanges and issues out company equipment. You are engaging with the customer to understand their needs and your knowledge of mobility and fixed line products and services will allow you to identify options to best fit the customer's needs. You are the face of the Altice brand.
You are a brand ambassador with a curious mind that feels comfortable in a digital space. You understand the best customer experience starts with you, along with support of your team members. Making customers feel welcome, guiding them on their store journey and help build brand relationships. Yes, this is a sales job, but it's more about making a connection with the customer and ensuring you have the expertise necessary to pair the right product with the right person; a digital matchmaker.
Responsibilities
- Provide a quality experience and service as an ambassador of the brand
- Demonstrate capabilities to quickly resolving customer issues and concerns on first contact, exhibiting empowerment/ownership, with appropriate follow-through
- Deliver superior customer service by explaining the overall value, features and benefits of all products and services offered
- Collaborate with other Retail Sales Consultants, Team Leaders, Supervisors, and Managers as required.
- Serve as mobile expert and guide team members on the product, providing instruction, support and direction as required.
- Communicate and collaborate with other departments to troubleshoot system problems and resolve. Reaches to partners across AUSA that are prepared to support system and service troubleshooting; all with the goal of single point resolution for customers. Your role is to shepherd the process always underpinning with the highest quality customer service.
- Utilize extensive product knowledge and retail sales experience to find solutions aimed to meet and exceed customer's needs. This includes completing end-to-end customer transactions, including collecting payments, updating customer profiles, recovering and issuing equipment as well as assisting with general inquiries.
- Determine customer needs and educate the customer in order to sell or upgrade services.
- Demonstrate integrity while accessing customer databases and/or paper reference material to locate customer records and research account history.
- Communicates customer feedback on current needs and trends to management
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Minimum one year of work experience
- Willing to work a flexible schedule which may include evenings, weekends and holidays. Role is overtime eligible.
- For some locations, the ability to travel to other stores within 35 miles may be required and will be discussed upon interview.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
- Continually moving self in different positions in a retail setting to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces.
- The person in this position continually communicates with customers who have inquiries about their service, bill, and/or company products. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
- Occasionally ascends/descends a ladder to access products/boxes.
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