Now Hiring - Automotive Sales Consultant in Michigan City, IN

A Little About Us
The David Taylor family of dealerships has been a fixture in the Midwest Region since the 1990's starting with the first location in Kankakee, Illinois.
Although this opportunity is at the Michigan City Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram location, we now include 5 award-winning dealerships throughout the Midwest which support top domestic brands such as Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, and Ford.
We have definitely grown over the years, but we remain a local family-owned business and well-grounded in the communities in which we operate. We are a prominent supporter of community events, charitable organizations and environmental causes. David Taylor Michigan City Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram has been in NWI since January 2017 and are growing exponentially and are looking to add quality individuals in all departments.

What Are We Looking For?
As an innovative and highly respected leader in the automotive industry, we are looking for a driven, diligent, and thorough Automotive Salesperson/Product Specialist to join our team.
We offer a highly competitive compensation(commission and salary option) and benefit package with an outstanding 401(k) program administered by NADA Empower. If this sounds like your dream job, then we have the perfect opportunity and want to hear from you!

What Will I Be Doing?
One of the great things about our environment is that there is always something new happening. The points below are just some of the day-to-day things our Automotive Salesperson/Product Specialist would do to provide our customers with a world class experience:

• Understands automobiles by studying characteristics, capabilities, and features; comparing and contrasting competitive models; inspecting automobiles.
• Develops buyers by maintaining rapport with previous customers; suggesting trade-ins; meeting prospects at community activities; greeting drop-ins; responding to inquiries; recommending sales campaigns and promotions.
• Qualifies buyers by understanding buyer's requirements and interests; matching requirements and interests to various models.
• Demonstrates automobiles by explaining characteristics, capabilities, and features; taking test drives; explaining warranties and services.
• Closes sales by overcoming objections; asking for sales; negotiating price; completing sales or purchase contracts; explaining provisions; explaining warranties, services, and financing; collects payment; delivers automobile.
• Provides sales management information by completing reports.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunites; reading professional publications.
• Enhances dealership reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Individual should possess:

• Minimum high school diploma or GED equivalent required
• Previous experience in Sales recommended but not required
• Ability to be analytical, problem solve and multi-task
• Excellent communication, customer service, organizational and negotiation skills

• Self-motivated, goal-oriented, enthusiastic presence with an ability to work effectively and efficiently in a team environment.
• Ability to apply a common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Professional appearance and a strong work ethic.
• Have and maintain an excellent driving record.
• Current, valid driver’s license and satisfactory Motor Vehicle Report (MVR)

What’s In It For Me?

• Fast paced work environment
• Paid training and development
• Career growth opportunities
• Medical, dental, vision and other benefits for you and your qualified family members
• Paid vacation and sick time
• 401(k) retirement program with Company Percentage Match

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Individual will be required to:

• Sit and/or stand interchangeably throughout the day.
• Sit and/or stand for long periods at a time.
• Use hands, fingers and arms continually, frequently and throughout the day.
• Operate and drive vehicles or equipment in a safe manner.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Key Words
Account Executive, Commissioned Sales, Auto Sales, Car Sales, Automotive Sales, Sales Consultant, Sales Management, Auto Business, Operations Management, Retail Sales, Volkswagen, Lexus, Toyota, Subaru, Honda, Porsche, Audi, Tesla, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Fiat, Smart, Mini, Alfa Romeo, Ford, Chevrolet, Chevy, Dodge, Ram, Jeep, Chrysler.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $40,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay
• Commission pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Michigan City, IN 46350: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Experience:

• Customer service: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location