Design Consultant

Overview

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Bassett Furniture – Design Sales Opportunity. Do you love interior design? Do you have an eye for color and fashion? If you are a positive and motivated professional with a passion for design, exceptional selling skills, and a love for building customer relationships, Bassett Furniture has the opportunity for you. This role focuses on helping customers see their dream rooms become a reality through design consultations and makeovers.

• Build meaningful and long-term customer relationships.
• Apply comprehensive knowledge from furniture construction to design trends.
• Use relationship selling techniques through interior design consultations and makeovers to maximize selling opportunities.
• Enjoy and engage in the design process to help customers realize their design goals.

• Passion for design
• Highly driven to meet or exceed sales goals
• Discern and coordinate colors and textures
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Friendly outgoing personality
• Positive outlook
• Self-motivated to clientele
• Computer proficiency
• Desire to learn
• Proven track record of success in sales
• Polished image
• Career-minded professionalism
• Ability to listen and translate customer wants into design choices

• Willingness to work weekends and holidays
• Desire to work in a commissioned sales environment
• Dedicated to being a supportive team member
• Capable of thriving in a varied paced retail environment
• Ability to drive to customers’ residences and businesses for makeovers
• Adept at conducting virtual appointments and live chats
• Creating, presenting, and selling product and design solutions
• Engaging customers to determine their needs according to taste, lifestyle, and investment range

The Bassett Brand is brought to life by the people who shape the customers’ experience. Our training programs are designed to help each associate create a meaningful career  part of our in-depth training program, you’ll learn product knowledge, sales techniques, design skills, and how to build a base of loyal clients. You’ll do this through comprehensive online classes, videos, hands-on activities, and one-on-one coaching.

We provide continuing opportunities to learn throughout your career  most successful sales people have a creative personality and passion for design. Bassett offers Interior Design certification training. Through our one-on-one coaching and educational development, we will help you build relationships with customers to reflect their own personal sense of style and show you how to effectively use our complimentary design service as a tool for developing customer relationships and increased sales.

With our generous commission-based compensation plan, income is limited only by effort. In addition to commission, there are other bonus opportunities. The potential income for experienced Bassett Design Consultants averages $70,000–$105,000 per year, with corporate top writers earning up to $135,000 per year.

• Paid training
• Health/Dental/Vision coverage
• Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Tuition assistance
• Paid time off
• Generous Employee Discounts
• Work in a State-of-the-Art Showroom
• Opportunity for growth and advancement

Bassett’s blend of style, comfort and value has been trusted for more than a century and makes it one of the most recognizable furniture brands in America. We are focused on innovating furniture retailing while maintaining quality and value, and we offer a number of exceptional services to meet customers’ needs. Take steps now towards building a meaningful career with a growing company.

Apply to join the design team at Bassett today!

Bassett Furniture Industries is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, veterans status or other protected category. Bassett is dedicated to ensuring that qualified applicants are employed and that employees are treated consistently during employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, veterans status or other protected category.

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