What are the responsibilities and job description for the Outside Sales Professional position at Allied Outdoor Solutions?
Join a competitive, highly incentivized, and lively outside sales environment!
Passionate about envisioning, designing, and crafting outdoor living spaces that redefine a client’s home and life, we've successfully delivered over 25,000 projects since 2009. Our foundation lies in the expertise of great designers who partner with our clients as they enter the daunting world of contracting. At Allied, we believe that we are to guide and assist our clients in completing the beautiful, high quality outdoor living spaces they’ve dreamed of. We approach this journey with surprising sincerity, integrity, and transparency.
Why Allied:
- Products and People you can be proud of
- You will be surrounded by coworkers all striving to deliver high quality products with unmatched character and integrity rarely seen in this industry.
- Experience Matters
- We’ve delivered over 25,000 projects, meaning we’ve assisted 25,000 clients as they–with us by their side–navigated peril after peril. We’ve learned the hard way so our clients don’t have to.
- No Cold Calling
- Our marketing team expertly delivers over 10,000 warm leads each year.
- Earning Potential
- Due to the complexity of this position, Allied believes in highly incentivizing sales performance. Successful designers at Allied regularly earn over $100k through a fully commissioned pay structure with ample opportunity for bonuses each month. Our top performers routinely exceed $200k in a calendar year. Due to the nature and need of establishing a sales pipeline within this role, a temporary salary is offered during the initial onboarding process to bridge this training gap.
- Challenging Environment
- Outdoor living is a complex industry. Each home has different obstacles, and each set of homeowners has their own unique dream and vision. Our designers aren’t afraid to spend the time necessary to dream alongside the client, build a firm scope, and help encourage them through the buying process.
- Vibrant Work Culture
- We are not only proud of the work we do for our clients; we also desire to create a culture that promotes learning and celebrates the successful milestones along the way. Whether you’ve just earned your first project or earned a spot on our yearly incentive trip abroad, we can’t wait to cheer you on and provide honest coaching along the way.
Intangibles: (examples will be asked for during the interview process)
- Relentlessly competitive
- High moral character
- Pursues perfection
- Getting it right is just as important as getting it done (detail-oriented)
- Appreciates honest feedback and coaching
- Owns their process and performance
- High standard of personal accountability and responsibility
- Used to and values a collaborative, team environment
- Emotionally intelligent
- Can understand and react to a potential client’s verbal and nonverbal cues
- Enjoys problem solving
- Possesses mechanical aptitude (understands how things are built)
- Comports himself or herself professionally through speech, timeliness, dress, hygiene, etc
- Understands technology and comfortable switching from tablet/phone/laptop on the fly
- Comfortable with G-suite, such as Gmail, Sheets, Drive, etc
- Firm grasp of the financial components of a sale and the details therein
- Ability to measure both static and abstract spaces accurately
- Sales or design experience desired but not required
- Regardless of experience, markers of success must be present (awards, honors, history of promotions, etc)
- Comfortable working hours that accommodate our clients and provide the best opportunity to succeed, often including evenings and Saturdays.
- BA or BS degree desired, but not required
- Health insurance - base plan free to the employee
- Vision and dental insurance offered
- 401k and RothK plans offered
- Financial wellness and health wellness programs offered
- Gas allowance
- Toll and phone reimbursement
- Generous vacation policy
To recap the data above, please do not apply if the following criteria do not align with your interests and availability:
- Schedule - Available for appointments weekday afternoons, evenings, and Saturday to accommodate the busy schedules of our clients.
- Compensation - This role is 100% commission based beyond a brief salary through training.
- Onboarding - The first week requires being in Houston, Monday-Friday, for our initial week of intensive training program. Beyond week one, training will largely continue in your respective market.
Salary : $200,000
