Deputy Sales Manager 100% – Furniture & Home Design

About the job

Deputy Sales Manager 100% – Furniture & Home Design

KARE Switzerland · Designlife GmbH · Dübendorf

Enjoy living – and love selling?

KARE stands for extraordinary furniture, lighting and home accessories as well as imaginative furnishing ideas beyond mass-produced goods. As KARE Switzerland, we at Designlife GmbH inspire people who want to design their homes individually. Our 800 m² large showroom in Dübendorf is a meeting place for home enthusiasts – full of inspiration, personality and design.

You love personal customer contact, are strong in sales and gladly take on responsibility? As deputy sales management, you support the organisation and leadership of our sales team, actively assist in day-to-day business and take responsibility for the sales area in the absence of the sales management.

Your tasks

• Consultation and sales: You enthuse our customers about furniture, lighting and home accessories, develop suitable furnishing solutions and accompany them from the first idea to the successful sales conclusion.
• Deputising and organisation: You support the sales management in day-to-day business, coordinate tasks and priorities and ensure smooth processes even in busy situations.
• Team leadership and development: You lead by example in sales, motivate the team and support the induction of new employees as well as the supervision of our apprentices.
• Customer care and order processing: You prepare and track quotations, process orders and handle customer enquiries in the showroom, by phone and by e-mail.
• Sales targets and key figures: Together with the sales management, you keep an eye on turnover, sales targets and customer satisfaction and implement concrete improvement measures with the team.
• Product presentation: Together with our visual merchandising, you ensure inspiring living worlds and pay attention to order, correct price labelling and a well-kept showroom.
• Collaboration: You work closely with management, back office and warehouse and ensure a reliable flow of information.

Your profile

• A completed training in retail or a comparable qualification.
• Several years of experience in advisory-intensive sales, ideally in the furniture or interior design sector.
• Initial leadership experience, for example as a deputy or responsible for a sales area.
• Enjoyment of active customer consultation, negotiation skills and the ability to successfully conclude sales talks.
• A sense for design, aesthetics and individual customer needs.
• A motivating, reliable personality who takes responsibility and pitches in themselves.
• Organisational talent and an independent, structured and solution-oriented way of working.
• Confident handling of digital tools as well as interest in sales figures.
• Very good German skills in spoken and written form; other languages are welcome.
• Willingness to work every Saturday.

What to expect

• A versatile position with responsibility and room for your own ideas.
• An inspiring working environment with extraordinary products and varied customer projects.
• Close cooperation with sales and management as well as short decision-making paths.
• The opportunity to actively shape the daily sales routine and the development of our team.
• A role where you can combine your enthusiasm for home design with sales and team leadership.

Ready for more home inspiration?

Then we look forward to receiving your application with CV, references and your earliest possible starting date directly via this job advertisement.

KARE Switzerland · Designlife GmbH
Stettbachstrasse 2 · 8600 Dübendorf