Salesperson - W.I. Simonson

Sonic Automotive

Salesperson - W.I. Simonson

Santa Monica, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Our Salespeople are responsible for selling vehicles and meeting dealership gross profit, volume and customer satisfaction standards. This position includes four broad areas of activity - personal work habits, prospecting, selling, and follow-up.

    Duties and Responsibilities:

    • Realize that business is built on customer satisfaction and devote himself/herself to guarantee satisfaction of customers.
    • Determine each customer’s vehicle needs by asking questions and listening.
    • Demonstrate vehicles (includes test drives).
    • Deliver vehicles to customers. The delivery process ensures that the customer understands the vehicle’s operating features, warranty, and paperwork, and it lays the foundation for customer loyalty.
    • Establish personal income goals that are consistent with dealership standards of productivity and devise a strategy to meet those goals.
    • Report to the vehicle Sales Manager regarding objectives, planned activities, reviews, and analyses.
    • Keep abreast of incoming inventory, features, accessories, etc., and how they benefit customers.
    • Work with the service department and body shop to ensure that vehicles are reconditioned as expected and on schedule.
    • Attend sales meetings and training offered by the dealership and the manufacturer.
    • Maintain a prospect development system.
    • Maintain an owner follow-up system that encourages repeat and referral business.
    • Review and analyze actions at the end of each day, week, month, and year to determine how to better utilize time and plan more effectively.
    • Understand the terminology of the automobile business and keep abreast of technological changes in the product.
    • Know and understand equity and values and be able to explain depreciation to the customer.
    • Know and understand the federal, state, and local laws which govern retail auto sales.
    • Introduce customers to service department personnel to emphasize to them the quality and efficiency of service repairs and maintenance available in the dealership’s service department.
    • Must follow all company safety policies and procedures, and immediately report any and all accidents to a manager or supervisor.
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    · To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

    · The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

    · Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    · All applicants must be authorized to work in the USA

    · All applicants must perform duties and responsibilities in a safe manner

    · All applicants must be able to demonstrate ability to pass pre-employment testing to include background checks, MVR, drug test, credit report, and valid driver license

    Additional Information

    ** All your information will be kept confidential according to EEOC guidelines.**

    (The Salesperson Position has a Pay Scale consisting of the following elements and ranges. Wages include a monthly draw of 2,000 dollars. The position may also pay commission compensation which is based on the value or amount of closed sales achieved from $0.00 (if no sales are made) without any upper limit other than sales performance. The position also may also pay a production bonus based on individual or team performance that may range from $0.00 (if baseline benchmarks are not met) without any fixed upper limit .)

  • Industry
    Retail