Job Functions
- Stay 100% focused on sales and customers
- Services existing customers, obtains orders, deliver product
- Establish new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedule to call on existing or potential sales leads
- Keeps management informed by communicating activity and results on a daily basis
- Works closely with key inside sales representatives to create new leads and service existing customers
- Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, and merchandising techniques
- Recommends changes in products, services, and policy by evaluating results and competitive developments
- Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; making recommendations to
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
- Meets or exceeds goals determined by management, in specific period
- Take initiative to learn product knowledge
- Take initiative to learn selling skills
Minimum Skill Requirements
- Customer Service
- Meeting Sales Goals
- Closing Skills
- Prospecting Skills
- Negotiation
- Product Knowledge
- Client Relationships
- Motivation for Sales
Other Requirements
- Have reliable transportation
- Must be available to work on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Work a flexible schedule
- Excellent selling, communication and negotiation skills
Physical Requirements
Essential Physical Ability
Frequency
Requirement
Walking
Frequent
Flat surfaces from point to point
Standing
Constant
All work performed on feet
Sitting
None
Stooping
Frequent
To pick up cartons at floor level
Reaching
Frequent
To a height of 6 feet
Lifting
Frequent
Up to 60 lbs., up to 500 repetitions per hour to a height of 4 feet (top of register); must be able to lift up to 25 pounds comfortably
Hand Dexterity
Frequent
Must be able to use at least one hand to operate register and complete paperwork
Pushing/Pulling
Frequent
Move hand jacks from place to place
Carrying
Frequent
Up to 50 lbs., up to 10 feet, occasionally more
Climbing
In-frequent
Stairs in storage rooms; ladders
Vision
Constant
Read labels, recognize boxes, safety in working
Hearing
Constant
Safety Signals
Job Type: Part-time
Required education:
- High school or equivalent
Required experience:
- Sales: 2 years
- Customer Service: 1 year
- Retail Sales: 1 year
Qualifications
Bellmore Home Center, Inc. d/b/a Costello's ace Hardware is an Equal opportunity Employer.
Skills Required
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Sales experience: 2 years
- Customer service experience: 1 year
- Retail sales experience: 1 year
- Customer service skills, meeting sales goals, closing, prospecting, negotiation, product knowledge
- Excellent selling, communication, and negotiation skills
- Reliable transportation
- Available to work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; flexible schedule
- Ability to stand constantly and walk frequently
- Able to lift up to 60 lbs and carry up to 50 lbs; repetitive lifting up to 500/hour
- Ability to stoop, reach to 6 feet, push/pull hand jacks, climb stairs/ladders occasionally
What We Do
Costello's Ace Hardware is one of the largest family-owned retail hardware store chains in the United States, founded in 1973 by Vincent Costello. The company is dedicated to providing an amazing shopping experience by treating every customer like family, leveraging superior product knowledge and essential services to solve customer problems across multiple states.
