Sales Representative- Homebuilder Services Division

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Build lasting partnerships with homebuilders while growing your own career. In this role, you'll expand and manage a portfolio of builder clients by developing new business opportunities, strengthening existing relationships, and delivering solutions that help our customers succeed. You'll own your territory, drive sales growth, and maximize opportunities across the residential construction market—all while making a direct impact on the success of both your clients and the business.

• Build client relationships, secure new orders from new customers, and maintain and expand business with existing client base.
• Compile lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads, based on information from networking, websites, newspapers, business directories, industry ads, trade shows, and other sources and develop and execute on a call plan for qualified real estate agents, brokers and their staff, lenders and attorneys.
• Assess individual client needs and develop, present and implement a plan to meet those needs.
• Be highly visible in his/her marketing area by attending real estate industry functions and participating in community and real estate events.
• Collaborate with internal marketing teams provided for their territory where needed to develop local marketing content (print, electronic) and social media presence to drive brand awareness to support sales strategy.
• Effectively create or adapt and deliver presentations to customer groups, target customers, agents and others.
• Interact daily with other work groups (such as operations, marketing and escrow branches)
• Communicate proactively with and respond in a timely manner to clients.

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 2‑5 years of successful residential Title/Real estate industry experience
• Proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales goals
• Valid driver’s license

• Ability to listen to customers and understand their needs and objectives to better respond and provide solutions.
• Applies diplomacy and tact.
• Demonstrates persistence, tenacity and consistency in pursuing revenue opportunities.
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Flexible with the ability to adapt strategy to changing conditions.
• Understanding of market and competition with the ability to identify external threats and opportunities.
• Ability to persuade and influence others.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Visibility requires maintaining a professional appearance and providing a positive company image to the public.

Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County.

First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).

First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or…