Sales Manager

Tapi Carpets & Floors; Southampton; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job description

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The Role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Tapi Family as a Sales Manager in our Tapi Concession at John Lewis.

We are seeking a dedicated and customer-focused individual who is passionate about delivering an exceptional flooring purchase experience. If you take pride in creating a welcoming, visually appealing store environment and thrive on ensuring customer satisfaction, we'd love to hear from you!

The Responsibilities

• Ensure the showroom always provides an outstanding experience for customers.
• Deliver outstanding service to all customers - surpassing their expectations.
• Drive sales to meet and exceed your personal sales targets.
• Ensure that all customer interactions are followed up immediately and given outstanding service.
• Ensure the highest standard of showroom and merchandise presentation.
• Build the brand within the area by building relationships within the John Lewis environment.
• Build a strong relationship with colleagues and management of your local Tapi store.
• Communicate and build relationships with your John Lewis floor manager.
• Regularly use Tapi technology to input customer order details accurately and to a high standard.
• Comply with all Health, Safety and Security requirements set out by Tapi and the John Lewis store.

The Big Package

• OTE of £30,000
• 25% colleague discount
• Salary sacrifice pension
• Share of profit bonus scheme
• Perks platform (cheap cinema tickets, cashback and discounts on well-known brands)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A day off for your birthday
• Cycle to work scheme

About You!

• You're in that little sweet spot of being sales driven AND customer focused. And you're passionate about what you do.
• We're after a speedy thinker who's nice to their core. A presentable, switched-on, and honest person, who brings a little joy to every interaction. You're naturally self-motivated, enthusiastic, and keen to impress. You sweat the small stuff and have a "no customer left behind" attitude.
• You're up for a challenge and thrive in a busy store environment. You are always on the lookout for ways to improve things for customers, colleagues, and you have a bias towards action.

Get to Know us!

We're Tapi and we're slightly obsessed with floors. We're a flooring retailer with a difference, here to blow a breath of fresh air into the world of carpet and flooring shopping - and we'd love for you to join the revolution!

The Tapi story starts in 2015, when a handful of flooring industry specialists passionate about flooring decided to do things differently. With hundreds of years of flooring knowledge between us, our mission was to make buying flooring reassuringly simple for our customers - and show that it could be fun!

Over the past 10 years, we've grown massively to become the largest flooring retailer in Britain - something we're super proud of. You're likely to find a Tapi showroom in your local town and we've got a fleet of home consultants zooming around the country. In 2024, we added the Carpetright brand, 54 flooring stores, and as many Carpetright colleagues as possible into the Tapi family. Our 5-star service remained outstanding as the team went above and beyond to show exactly why our customers rate us 'excellent' on Trustpilot.

So, what's the secret to our success? Our people. Even though there's nearly a whopping 1500 of us, we're still a company with family values at the heart. Wherever you're based - at the office, in a store or on the road - we all work together as a team. Some people have been with us from the very beginning while others plan to retire here, so we must be doing something right!

We care deeply about personal development which is why we launched the Tapi Academy - a 12-week training plan for all new flooring sales advisors, with 12-weeks OTE guaranteed while you learn the ropes. We celebrate milestones and award successes - and we shout about it! We organise Tapi socials where teams can come together and let their hair down, and we have (mostly) friendly competitions between locations.

It's a happy place to work and when you love what you do, customers will see that too. And making our customers happy is the reason we get out of bed in the morning.

Tapi Carpets & Floors is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation. We are an inclusive organisation and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications.