Sales Assistant - Austin Metro Area

Sales Assistant - Austin Metro Area

Location:

Austin, TX and surrounding areas

Pacesetter Homes is a single‑family business unit of Qualico with over 65 years of building experience. Pacesetter Homes offers award‑winning home plans, interior design items, and finishing packages that personalize each new home we build. Pacesetter Homes operates in Western Canada, Dallas, Texas and Austin, Texas. At Pacesetter, our people make the difference. We offer an exciting place to build your career with competitive compensation and benefits packages, company matching 401(k) program and employee home purchase program.

Pay for this position includes a base hourly wage and an entry‑level commission structure.

Reporting to the Director of Sales, the Sales Assistant is responsible for supporting the new home sales process. The Sales Assistant also assists in maintaining the assigned show home(s) or sales center and provides customers with an exceptional customer experience throughout the home buying process.

• Act as the first point of contact for customers and ensure excellent customer service is provided.
• Provide customers with show home tours, product information and purchase process. Answer incoming calls and emails, and book appointments.
• Assist in qualifying potential purchasers and convert them into qualified buyers. Track customer information and assist in obtaining financing.
• Continually inspect and ensure show home(s) or sales center are appealing and presentable. Attend to items such as tidying décor items, straightening signage, maintaining inventory of kitchen and washroom supplies, and identify items of concern or in need of repair.
• Support customers throughout the home building process and coordinate project changes. Provide updates on building progress and coordinate walkthroughs.
• Perform a variety of administrative tasks such as data entry, filing, calendar management, tracing customer deposits, and maintaining office supplies, sales brochures, and signage.

• A strong communicator: you clearly express your thoughts in conversation and in written communication.
• An active listener: you seek to understand and listen to others in a non‑judgmental way.
• Mindful: you respect diversity and deal with sensitive situations using a high degree of integrity.
• Excellent service oriented: you handle relations with customers, internal and external parties with tact and diplomacy.
• A creative problem‑solver: you think outside the box for solutions without fear of failure.

• High School Diploma, or equivalent.
• Six months of sales experience in the residential home building industry preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle.
• Verification of a satisfactory criminal record check and driver’s abstract.
• Comfortable using office equipment, Microsoft Office Programs (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), CRM and accounting software (Hub Spot, New Star, etc.).

• Creating trusting and successful working relationships.
• Setting clear, measurable, and achievable goals.
• Cooperating with team members in an open, positive and respectful manner.
• Staying current with technical job skills.
• Consistently meeting customer expectations.
• Taking responsibility for the outcomes of decisions and actions.

The role is primarily performed in a show home or sales center setting. Hours are primarily regular business hours with evenings and/or weekends as well as travel to off‑site meetings or other show homes occasionally required.

Entry level

Full‑time

Sales and Business Development

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