Luxury Automotive Sales Associate - Bob Howard German Imports, LLC

Jaguar Land Rover Clear Lake is looking for a Luxury Automotive Salesperson. This is a full-time position with benefits and pay is based on commission. The automotive salesperson will assist customers through their purchase decision and transaction, ensuring the customer feels heard and important through the entire process and ends up happy and satisfied with their decision and purchase experience.

Responsibilities Include:

• Stays up to date on manufacturer-provided training
• Understands automobiles by studying characteristics, capabilities, and features; comparing and contrasting competitive models; inspecting automobiles.
• Assists customers in their purchase process by providing knowledge, guidance, and support
• Develops buyers by maintaining rapport with previous customers in CRM; suggesting trade-ins; meeting prospects at community activities; greeting drop-ins; responding to inquiries; recommending sales campaigns and promotions.
• Qualifies buyers by understanding buyer's requirements and interests; matching requirements and interests to various models; building rapport.
• Demonstrates automobiles by explaining characteristics, capabilities, and features; taking drives; explaining warranties and services.
• Closes sales by overcoming objections; asking for sales; negotiating price; completing sales or purchase contracts; explaining provisions; explaining and offering warranties, services, and financing; collects payment; delivers automobile.
• Follows up with sold customers in the CRM to ensure their experience was fantastic, to see if we can help in any other way, to remind them of our service department, etc.
• Enhances dealership reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Reminds customers to take the manufacturer provided CSI survey after a transaction has been completed
• Asks for online reviews through our many online review sites
• Other jobs as specified by the sales manager

Requirements:

• At least 1-year prior sales experience

We believe that our associates are our greatest asset. The work that you do every day contributes to the success of the dealership.

We Offer:

• Employer Paid Life Insurance for $25,000 – Additional Life Insurance Available
• Employer Paid Flu Vaccination Every Fall
• Employer Percentage Matching 401k up to 3%
• Employer Paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Employee Paid Jury Duty (We will compensate each active full-time employee for the difference between jury duty pay and your regular straight time pay or salary for up to two weeks per year.)
• 5 Paid Time Off Vacation Days per year after one year of employment for Full-Time Employees
• 10 Paid Time Off Vacation Days per year after two years of employment for Full-Time Employees
• 15 Paid Time Off Vacation Days per year after ten years of employment for Full-Time Employees
• Voluntary with Employer Contribution Dental Insurance
• Voluntary with Employer Contribution Medical Insurance
• Voluntary Health Savings Account Contribution
• Voluntary Vision Plan
• Voluntary Legal Shield
• Voluntary Christmas Fund with Company Match
• Annual Family Oriented Christmas Party
• Employee Vehicle Purchase Program on most new models and select pre-owned.
• Employee Discounts on Parts, and Service
• Bi-Monthly Pay Periods, Paid on the 15^th and Last Day of the Month
• Paid Holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas.
• Employer Paid Lunches Every Saturday
• Employer Paid Lunches/Dinners on Special Occassions

We strive to take excellent care of our employees, so that they will take excellent care of our clients. Thanks for considering being a part of our team!

Our dealership has been and remains committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination for all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, or preference, marital status, citizenship status, military status, age, national origin, nationality, handicap or disability, or any other status protected by federal, state or local law or regulation. In keeping with this policy, we seek to recruit, hire, train, and promote into available jobs the most qualified persons and to administer personnel matters such as compensation, benefits, training, layoffs, and terminations in accordance with this policy. All employees are expected to conduct themselves in the workplace in a manner that is consistent with this policy.