Phone sales representative job description
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Example phone sales representative requirements on a job description
Phone sales representative requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in phone sales representative job postings.
Sample phone sales representative requirements
- Excellent communication skills
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Proficient in basic computer skills
- Prior experience in phone sales
- Ability to meet sales quotas and goals
Sample required phone sales representative soft skills
- Positive attitude and ability to work well in a team
- Ability to build rapport with customers
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent time management skills
Phone sales representative job description example 1
A Place for Mom phone sales representative job description
**Overview**
**Inside Phone Sales Representative - 100% Work from Home**
**Remote Positions Across the US**
**Senior Living Advisor**
**What you will do:**
+ Work in a growing, fast-paced industry to help educate families on senior care options and find the right communities to meet their needs **while working remotely from your home office.**
+ Take inbound, pre-screened leads and help guide families from initial consultation, to touring of facilities, and ultimately moving into a senior living community.
+ Act as the liaison between families in need and the senior housing communities or care providers.
**Who you are:**
+ A selling machine!
+ Highly empathetic
+ Excited to work in the unique industry of senior living
**What will make you successful:**
Success is measured by reaching daily call benchmarks, scheduling tours at communities, and converting leads into move-ins resulting in achievement of a monthly quota.
+ Passion to learn - We offer an extensive new hire training program to prepare you to assist the families as well as ongoing feedback to help you improve performance over time.
+ Competitive by nature - You need to be self-motivated and have the drive to win and hit your sales goals
+ Technically proficient - You must be proficient at both Microsoft Office as well as have the ability to learn and use our internal CRM systems.
+ Flexibility - Youneed to be available to work evening, nights and weekends. We are a consumer facing business and we need to be available when our families need us.
**Who we are:**
A Place for Mom is an online platform connecting families in need of senior care services with a team of experienced advisors providing insight-driven and personalized solutions. Our mission, as the leader in senior care advisory, is to be a trusted destination for families and our community customers. We are a quickly growing organization with over 400 advisors connecting more than 300,000 families every year to one of our community customers.
Living by our values and working to achieve excellence on behalf of our customers is integral to success at A Place for Mom. Employees who thrive at A Place for Mom live our values every day and are an important part of our hiring practices:
+ Focus on Excellence
+ Act with Integrity & Assume Positive Intent
+ Drive Outcomes Every Day with Passion and A Sense of Mission
+ Make the Lives of our Families and Customers Better, Easier and More Successful
+ Realize the Full Potential in Each Team Member. Work as a Single Supportive Team
**Qualifications**
**Required Skills and Competencies**
+ Bachelor's degree preferred
+ History of exceeding sales quota
+ Ability to multi-task; simultaneously talk on the phone and take notes on the computer.
+ Strong computer and typing skills necessary, including Word and Excel.
**Compensation**
The position is a salaried, non-exempt position. The position earns a base salary with uncapped bonus potential. Working hours are scheduled at 40 hours per week that include some nights and weekends; overtime is paid for time worked over 40 hours per week (or as applicable by state law), which should be approved in advance by the manager.
**You will work with your Regional Manager to establish a full-time, 40 hour work schedule.**
\#LI-Remote
**Job Location(s)** _US_
**\# of Openings** _20_
**Category** _Sales_
**Inside Phone Sales Representative - 100% Work from Home**
**Remote Positions Across the US**
**Senior Living Advisor**
**What you will do:**
+ Work in a growing, fast-paced industry to help educate families on senior care options and find the right communities to meet their needs **while working remotely from your home office.**
+ Take inbound, pre-screened leads and help guide families from initial consultation, to touring of facilities, and ultimately moving into a senior living community.
+ Act as the liaison between families in need and the senior housing communities or care providers.
**Who you are:**
+ A selling machine!
+ Highly empathetic
+ Excited to work in the unique industry of senior living
**What will make you successful:**
Success is measured by reaching daily call benchmarks, scheduling tours at communities, and converting leads into move-ins resulting in achievement of a monthly quota.
+ Passion to learn - We offer an extensive new hire training program to prepare you to assist the families as well as ongoing feedback to help you improve performance over time.
+ Competitive by nature - You need to be self-motivated and have the drive to win and hit your sales goals
+ Technically proficient - You must be proficient at both Microsoft Office as well as have the ability to learn and use our internal CRM systems.
+ Flexibility - Youneed to be available to work evening, nights and weekends. We are a consumer facing business and we need to be available when our families need us.
**Who we are:**
A Place for Mom is an online platform connecting families in need of senior care services with a team of experienced advisors providing insight-driven and personalized solutions. Our mission, as the leader in senior care advisory, is to be a trusted destination for families and our community customers. We are a quickly growing organization with over 400 advisors connecting more than 300,000 families every year to one of our community customers.
Living by our values and working to achieve excellence on behalf of our customers is integral to success at A Place for Mom. Employees who thrive at A Place for Mom live our values every day and are an important part of our hiring practices:
+ Focus on Excellence
+ Act with Integrity & Assume Positive Intent
+ Drive Outcomes Every Day with Passion and A Sense of Mission
+ Make the Lives of our Families and Customers Better, Easier and More Successful
+ Realize the Full Potential in Each Team Member. Work as a Single Supportive Team
**Qualifications**
**Required Skills and Competencies**
+ Bachelor's degree preferred
+ History of exceeding sales quota
+ Ability to multi-task; simultaneously talk on the phone and take notes on the computer.
+ Strong computer and typing skills necessary, including Word and Excel.
**Compensation**
The position is a salaried, non-exempt position. The position earns a base salary with uncapped bonus potential. Working hours are scheduled at 40 hours per week that include some nights and weekends; overtime is paid for time worked over 40 hours per week (or as applicable by state law), which should be approved in advance by the manager.
**You will work with your Regional Manager to establish a full-time, 40 hour work schedule.**
\#LI-Remote
**Job Location(s)** _US_
**\# of Openings** _20_
**Category** _Sales_
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Updated March 14, 2024
Updated March 14, 2024