Independent Contractor Flooring Sales Rep Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Come join the Team at Floor Trader Outlet in Ft. Walton Beach, Fl. If you have a passion for people and a love for sales, this is the career opportunity you have been waiting for. If you are a self-motivated, and detail oriented individual we will provide the tools and training you need to achieve outstanding success in residential, commercial, and builder flooring sales. If you’re the type of person who desires compensation based on results, your financial security is assured by being assertive, creative, and by building your client base. This position offers outstanding earning potential for the right individual.

About Us:

Floor Trader Outlet is the fastest growing flooring store on the Emerald Coast, we have been regarded as the premier flooring business in the surrounding counties. We set the flooring standards along the Emerald Coast. Locally owned and operated, we are known for our superior customer service, and professional staff. Because we belong to the largest floor covering cooperative in the world our company offers the very best flooring products. As an Outlet store, we offer a preferred list of professional installers from which clients can choose their installer and save money by paying them directly. Floor Trader Outlet specializes in stocking a vast array of flooring options, purchased in bulk by the truckload, allowing us to offer highly competitive prices.

We believe in creating a family friendly work environment, where each person is an integral member of the team, yet responsible for his or her own results and earning potential. We are proud of our heritage and would like to find an individual who will excel and prosper in a fast paced retail environment becoming a valued member of our team.

About the Position

This position requires an individual to interact with potential customers and to build confidence and commitment to our products and services. Therefore, the ideal candidate must be willing to divide his or her work time between the store, visiting customers' businesses or offices, managing field projects, prospecting for new clients, and networking within the community.  It is also expected that the individual be a self-starter, personally well organized, and willing to create new business as well as to provide outstanding customer service and follow-up.

The pay structure can be established in several ways: either through straight commissions, typically averaging 8-10% of the total sale, or through a base salary coupled with a smaller commission rate that is contingent on overall performance.

Although not an all inclusive list, the following are some of duties and expectations for this position:

• Visiting potential customers (such as contractors, property managers, homeowners' associations, commercial businesses, realtors, apartment complexes, and other types of businesses)
• Building client relationships
• Answering questions from, and providing information to, customers about our company, our products, and our services.
• Networking regularly, and working effectively with, other store employees
• Creatively pursuing new leads on your own
• Completing takeoffs and submitting bids for projects
• Managing the projects that are won from beginning to end
• Negotiating contracts
• Executing marketing programs
• Building a book of business that continually grows because of your follow-up and client management abilities
• Belonging to a variety of local organizations and business groups

The skills and abilities we’re seeking include:

• Residential and Commercial flooring sales, or related experience is helpful but not required
• Outside sales experience is desirable
• Past project management experience is desirable
• Must have access to reliable transportation in order to get to work, and to visit clients
• Must have open and flexible work availability.
• Must have strong knowledge Microsoft Office programs and be willing to learn our operating system. (RFMS, using I-Pad for data entry)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Professionalism, to include dependability, accountability, and punctuality.
• Self-motivated and internally driven to excel in your position and career.
• Time management skills for juggling multiple (and sometimes competing) deadlines and deliverables.