Area Sales Assistant

**Area Sales Assistant - Leeds, Yorkshire Region**

**About Bensons for Beds**

We're Bensons for Beds We put Sleep Wellness at the heart of everything we do. With 100 years of experience in sourcing the best quality beds, frames and mattresses, at Bensons we understand how to design the perfect, tailored sleep experience. We have170+ locations and employ c 1800 colleagues. Under new ownership of Alteri Investors we have an ambitious 3 year plan to grow the business further and achieve our mission.

**The Role - Area Sales Consultant**

We are currently looking for an Area Sales Consultant to join our team. You would play a significant role in helping us to achieve our vision, being a key player in moving our business forward, with your natural ability to engage, inspire and offer adviceto our customers to ensure they choose the bed that suits them best

As an Area or “Mobile” Sales Consultant you will provide cover to a cluster of stores (typically between 1-2 hours from your base / advertised location) in times of holiday, sickness, absence or peak trading periods. Travel costs to other store locationsfrom your base store will be fully reimbursed via the expenses procedure. (Travel to your base location from home would not be covered, so you should be able to commute to the base location on a regular basis).

Your role as an Area Sales Consultant will involve:

- Supporting the region with Sales Consultant cover during absences and contributing to the success of the stores you support.
- Using your natural ability to build rapport with our customers to advise them on Sleep wellness.
- Using our unique sleepPRO technology to ensure they choose the right mattress for them, giving them a perfect night’s sleep every night.
- Taking customers through the sales process and completing the required order paperwork and credit agreements (full training provided).

**In return for your contribution to the store’s performance, we offer a base salary of £19,760 p.a. plus uncapped individual commission (paid monthly on top of your salary) once your minimum sales target is achieved.**

**On target earnings c. £26,000 p.a. based on your target, but there is no upper limit to what you can earn beyond that**

It should be noted that due to the nature of our products being large and sometimes heavy, the role will involve you and your colleagues moving products around in-store to position them to sell, and some cleaning tasks will be necessary to ensure the storeand our products are in the best possible condition for our customers.

Our busiest times tend to be when our customers are free to come in and visit the store, which includes evenings (up to 8pm), weekends and bank holiday weekends, so there would be an expectation for you to cover these busy times as part of your working week.

**Skills needed**

We are looking for Area Sales Consultants with pride, passion and a positive ‘can do’ attitude, devoted to delivering impeccable customer service with professionalism, ensuring our customers have an outstanding store experience. Driven to achieve your salestargets. You will enjoy engaging with customers and can adapt your approach as appropriate to build rapport and establish their needs.

Ideally you will have worked in a customer facing role previously and have confident communication skills, being able to spot sales opportunities and be resilient and resourceful when you need to be, daring to try new things to help your store succeed.

**Our Benefits**
- In addition to that we offer you all these extra benefits:_
- Monthly store bonus potential when your store achieves its target
- *Employee discount scheme for Bensons products
- *‘Perks’ discounts from numerous high street and online retailers and service providers to save you money on your everyday purchases and bigger expenses such as holidays and travel, electrical goods, motoring and leisure products etc.
- *Pension scheme - provided by Legal & General
- *Healthshield cashback options for Health and wellbeing services (dental, optical, virtual GP, other hospital services and more)
- *Discounted gym membership
- *Cycle to work scheme
- Access to Retail Trust services (guidance and support on retail issues, mental health, wellbeing & financial topics)
- Learning and development programmes to gain new knowledge and skills
- Career progression - access to internal opportunities to build your career within Bensons for Beds
- *Long service awards and ‘Love to Shop’ voucher rewards to spend as you like
- 28 days holiday, rising to 31 after 2 years’ service

If you love meeting new people, engaging with a variety of customers, being part of a team, growing your skills and developing new ones then our Area Sales Consultant role could be for you.