Dealership Salesperson - Mercedes Benz of McKinney at Sonic Automotive — McKinney, TX

Our Sales Professionals are responsible for selling vehicles and meeting dealership gross profit, volume and customer satisfaction standards. This position includes four broad areas of activity: personal work habits, prospecting, selling, and follow-up.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Realize that business is built on customer satisfaction and devote himself/herself to guarantee satisfaction of customers.
• Determine each customer’s vehicle needs by asking questions and listening.
• Demonstrate vehicles (includes test drives).
• Deliver vehicles to customers. The delivery process ensures that the customer understands the vehicle’s operating features, warranty, and paperwork, and it lays the foundation for customer loyalty.
• Establish personal income goals that are consistent with dealership standards of productivity and devise a strategy to meet those goals.
• Report to the vehicle Sales Manager regarding objectives, planned activities, reviews, and analyses.
• Keep abreast of incoming inventory, features, accessories, etc., and how they benefit customers.
• Work with the service department and body shop to ensure that vehicles are reconditioned as expected and on schedule.
• Attend sales meetings and training offered by the dealership and the manufacturer.
• Maintain a prospect development system.
• Maintain an owner follow-up system that encourages repeat and referral business.
• Review and analyze actions at the end of each day, week, month, and year to determine how to better utilize time and plan more effectively.
• Understand the terminology of the automobile business and keep abreast of technological changes in the product.
• Know and understand equity and values and be able to explain depreciation to the customer.
• Know and understand the federal, state, and local laws which govern retail auto sales.
• Introduce customers to service department personnel to emphasize to them the quality and efficiency of service repairs and maintenance available in the dealership’s service department.
• Must follow all company safety policies and procedures, and immediately report any and all accidents to a manager or supervisor.

Preferred:

• At least 2-3 years of high end luxury dealership sales experience.
• Mercedes-Benz brand experience.
• Excellent communication skills and guest experience.
• Ability to sell a minimum quota according to dealership standards.
• High end/luxury customer service and excellent communication skills.

Required:

• All applicants must be authorized to work in the USA.
• Valid driver's license and good driving record.
• All applicants must be able to demonstrate ability to pass pre-employment testing to include background checks, MVR, drug test, credit report, and valid driver's license.

The Salesperson opportunity has a Pay Scale consisting of the following elements and ranges. Wages include a monthly draw plus commission. The position may also pay commission compensation which is based on the value or amount of closed sales achieved from $0.00 (if no sales are made) without any upper limit other than sales performance. The position also may also pay a production bonus based on individual or team performance that may range from $0.00 (if baseline benchmarks are not met) without any fixed upper limit.