Retail Sales Associate

The Room Place
Joliet, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 7/10/2024 CLOSED ON 7/12/2024

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Retail Sales Associate position at The Room Place?

Create your own legacy at THE ROOMPLACE! An exciting and rewarding Sales career opportunity is available near you.

What can you expect from us?
At The RoomPlace, our team members have a sense of belonging and bring their authentic selves to work each day! Our associates say it’s like a big family. At The RoomPlace, we offer our Sales Associates a very lucrative performance based, scaled and uncapped pay structure (average earnings between $50,000 and $85,000 ), with awesome benefits including; health, vision, wellness, and dental insurance (on day one!), 401(k), paid time off, multiple employee discount programs and so much more. We take immense pride in training our people and providing opportunities for both career and personal growth. Many of our top managers have started on the sales floor, including Bruce, our CEO!

Our most successful associates have great organizational and communication skills (Bi-Lingual is always an advantage), they work well in a team environment while maintaining their personal goals, have a deep sense of style and a strong work ethic. Many of our top Sales Associates earn over $100,000 a year!

Our Legacy:
Our Chicago roots date back to 1912 when Sam Berman opened our first neighborhood furniture store on Chicago’s west side on Harlem Avenue. Today, The RoomPlace Furniture and Mattress is operated by third generation owner Bruce Berman and is one of the top furniture retailers in the country with 27 locations throughout Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and California.

About You:
  • Your creative juices start flowing when people need help finding the right style or products they want and need!
  • You enjoy meeting people from all walks of life and building customers for life relationships.
  • Your customers rave about you and the memorable shopping experience you provide.
  • You take pride in helping your customers transform the space they live in; into the place they are proud to call home!

If this sounds like you, then we encourage you to apply today!

Job Responsibilities- Retail Sales Associate

  • Greet and engage customers, uncovering their home furnishing needs and helping them make their design vision become a reality
  • Provide world class customer service and offer customers an unforgettable shopping experience
  • Build rapport with clients, earning their business through your ability to demonstrate exceptional product knowledge, strong interpersonal skills, and excellent listening skills
  • Develop and maintain a customer base through networking and client follow up to ensure customer satisfaction before and after the sale
  • Energetic, self-motivated sales professional with exceptional interpersonal, listening and communication skills, bilingual a plus!
  • Ability to network and build relationships with customers
  • Competitive, goal-oriented nature with the ability to work well in a team environment
  • Flexibility to work a 5 day retail schedule that includes nights, weekends (both Saturdays and Sundays for Full Time, either / or for Part Time), and most holidays.
  • Basic computer skills
  • Previous retail sales experience in retail commission-based sales environment is a plus, but not required
  • Strong organizational skills

Sales, Retail sales, Furniture retail sales, Retail sales associate

The RoomPlace Furniture is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to reasonably accommodating qualified persons with disabilities to enable them to perform the essential duties of their position. To request for a complete job description CLICK HERE

Many of our benefits are paid wholly or in part by The RoomPlace and are available to eligible employees.

Salary : $100,000

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