Assistant Sales Manager - Levin Furniture & Mattress

Levin Furniture & Mattress is hiring an Assistant Sales Manager at our Altoona, PA store location!

Summary

Assists Store/Sales Manager to drives store performance through the development of all sales associates; providing an environment that promotes teamwork and excellent customer service; providing motivation and positive morale.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Motivates and inspires sales associates, through coaching, counseling and training, to excel in overall sales performance and customer service skills.
• Assists Store/Sales Manager to establish individual sales goals and manages accountability increase individual sales performance.
• Ensures team environment by providing timely and consistent solutions to employee conflicts, concerns and policy/procedure violations in order to ensure positive employee relations and motivate the staff to achieve results.
• Assists Store/Sales Manager to recruit and hire the best qualified candidates in order to develop a sales team that will attain store goals and achieve customer results.
• Motivates Sales Associates through development and implementation of exciting sales meetings, communications and sales incentives.
• Provides timely and accurate communication to sales staff of all relative information necessary for the effective and efficient performance of their jobs.
• Drives the performance of new programs, products and sales initiatives through positive communication, training and coaching.
• Solves customer service concerns by providing creative solutions that are in the best interest of the company while providing the customer with a satisfactory outcome.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum two years of direct sales experience.
• Demonstrated sales leadership.
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency using personal computer and ability to master use of all Levin systems applications.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information to determine successful results.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a timely and efficient manner.

Schedule:

Retail Schedule: Must be available to work Sunday through Saturday, days, evenings & weekends.