Interior Sales Advisor
Your tasks
The Interior Sales Advisor provides specialist ownership of the customer opportunity portfolio to advance showroom productivity, premium furniture advice, display excellence and a consistent end-to-end customer experience. The role converts the Retail Sales & Design Advisory mandate into controlled decisions, reliable outputs and measurable results, with direct emphasis on pipeline velocity, win rate and account retention.
Key accountabilities
- Complete assigned work in customer opportunity portfolio to the current approved standard; specifically address Customer discovery, selling, space planning, and solution conversion, and agree the service, quality, cost and risk outcomes for retail sales & design advisory outcomes with Retail Director before the relevant planning cycle. [Control owner: JT-033]
- Deliver and maintain account plan, opportunity qualification and negotiated offer for retail sales & design advisory outcomes; define its acceptance criteria, owner, due date, version status and evidence trail so downstream users can rely on it. [Control owner: JT-033]
- As Interior Sales Advisor, verify the customer brief, site/room measurements, approved range and finish specifications for retail sales & design advisory outcomes before making a commitment or releasing work; resolve missing, conflicting or obsolete information through the approved query and change route. [Control owner: JT-033]
- As Interior Sales Advisor, coordinate the hand-off for retail sales & design advisory outcomes from Retail Sales & Design Advisory to showroom teams and Visual Merchandising; confirm readiness, dependencies, escalation triggers and closure evidence rather than relying on informal transfer. [Control owner: JT-033]
- As Interior Sales Advisor, review pipeline velocity, win rate and account retention for retail sales & design advisory outcomes at the cadence set by Kian; explain material variance, identify its cause and assign a time-bound corrective action. [Control owner: JT-033]
- As Interior Sales Advisor, use only authorized equipment, information, materials and process settings for retail sales & design advisory outcomes; when customer, supplier, technical or site conditions threaten the committed outcome, present recovery choices with impact on showroom sales per m², conversion rate. [Control owner: JT-033]
- As Interior Sales Advisor, remove recurring loss in customer opportunity portfolio affecting retail sales & design advisory outcomes by testing a role-relevant change to consultative selling, solution negotiation; standardize the approved improvement and verify the realized benefit. [Control owner: JT-033]
- As Interior Sales Advisor, prevent customer or employee injury and cash/stock loss during retail sales & design advisory outcomes; stop, quarantine, withhold approval or escalate whenever the defined release condition is not met. [Control owner: JT-033]
- As Interior Sales Advisor, maintain personal technical competence in consultative selling, solution negotiation for retail sales & design advisory outcomes, complete required authorization/recertification and share learning that prevents repeat errors. [Control owner: JT-033]
- As Interior Sales Advisor, provide retail customers- and management-ready updates on retail sales & design advisory outcomes; make commitments, open risks, customer impact, decisions required and accountable next steps traceable. [Control owner: JT-033]