Job Opportunity

Job Title: Sales Fulfillment Specialist I          

Contract, Commission, 1-year term with an opportunity for renewal 

The Opportunity:

Seeking a rewarding outlet for your unstoppable drive and energy? Looking for a position where what you’re selling is something you can authentically believe in? Raising Spaces is seeking a dynamic and performance-driven individual to engage new and existing residential and commercial customers in fulfilling their need for healthier and sustainable interior building supplies and related services.

Description:

Raising Spaces is seeking a Sales Fulfillment Specialist to acquire new accounts and customers and fulfill customer needs through attentive and impeccable service. The candidate will apply professional sales skills and techniques to ensure customers’ complete satisfaction with their buying experience.

Accountabilities:

• Establishing targets, intentions and systems to meet targets
• Completing sales calls, presentations and visits
• Attending to customer questions and product information requests by researching and delivering promotional and background materials
• Coordinating measurement and installation consultations and appointments
• Assisting customers through the entire sales process
• Maintaining accurate records of sales logs, metrics, communications, requests and commitments
• Submitting progress reports and process improvement feedback, and integrating sales process improvements

Qualifications

• Proven sales track record and exceptional service skills
• Knowledge of sustainable building, renovation, design, lighting and energy efficiency an asset
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for people and making a difference
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Fluency with Mac computers an asset
• Ability to work independently and engage warmly and confidently with others
• Alignment with company goals and values

To Apply

Forward application to Andrea Jones at andrea@raisingspaces.com by January 28, 2012. Position may be filled in advance of deadline if suitable applicant found.

If there’s something you’d like from our fantastic offerings, we are thrilled to help you before and after Remembrance Day. We are open today until 8:00pm and of course Saturday between 10:00am and 6:00pm for your adventures in eco home product discovery!

• Are you passionate about greener homes?
• Love to work with people?
• Want to make it way easier for people in Edmonton to build and renovate green?
• Know someone who is?

Then check this out . . .

Raising Spaces is seeking a dynamic new team member who embodies extraordinary sales and service abilities.

The ideal candidate possesses a passionate and creative approach to work and life, and thrives in a challenge-based environment. S/he is described by others as inspiring, bold, collaborative, innovative, and a high performer. The candidate has already been seeking a position to grow as a leader in, and a company and product to believe in.

Sales Specialist – Sustainable Building Materials

Position Accountabilities:

• Identify and initiate new sales relationships.
• Deliver extraordinary service to residential and commercial clients.
• Research product features and specifications to satisfy client concerns and maintain the integrity of the company’s sustainable product selection.
• Develop and maintain sales materials and current product knowledge
• Prepare accurate job costing calculations and estimates.
• Prepare presentations, proposals, reports and sales contracts.
• Fulfill payment and complete sales.
• Coordinate installation services, submit purchase orders, and facilitate efficient and economical product shipment.
• Complete operational and administrative activities as required.
• Promote & represent the company at sales, marketing and educational events and meetings.
• Collaborate with team members to evolve the company’s systems and service delivery.
• Monitor inventory and identify cost reduction strategies.

Ideal Competencies

• Extensive skill and experience in sales and service
• Knowledge or specialization in building, retail and/or design industry an asset
• Sustainability, community and integrity are core values
• Professional, business and entrepreneurial approach an asset
• Extraordinary communication and interpersonal skills
• Basic business administration skills

Compensation

• Base salary plus commission structure, based on a draw model.

Term

• Full-time ongoing. Position commences Immediately and will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found.

Please apply with cover letter and resume to info@raisingspaces.com

This weekend marks the NetZero Home tour.  Last year a couple friends and I went on an exciting bike tour to see the different styles and design elements of each gorgeous home.  This weekend, Raising Spaces will be showcasing some fantastic products and materials at 7615 111 st.  The Belgravia Homes, as seen in the Raising Spaces “Building the Ultimate Green Effect Homes” will also be a part of the tour, so if you missed the construction tour, now’s the chance to check out sustainable home building at its finest.  Click Here for details on tour information.

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The Home & Garden Show

Just four days, five amazing volunteers, and half a container of bubbles blown later, Raising Spaces has officially completed a rather successful show!  The weekend went swell, and we couldn’t have done it without our knowledgeable “queens of green”.  There was some serious green girl power going on!  Andrea, Valentyna, and I (Jessica), had so much support from these ladies!  Whenever the day was growing sleepy, there was a new green pal to help us push on greenly through the day!  Brandy, Arinna, Christy, Sheniz and Cindy were amazing volunteers that took time out of their days to spread the word of green renovation.  It was fun, and the exposure was fantastic.  We were located in Hall F, at booth 618.  We had the best neighbors we could ask for.  The City of Edmonton’s “store it, don’t pour it” campaign gave away lids for aluminum cans to promote clear drains to avoid flooding.  Our neighbors across the booth were Bruce and Eddie-Jay, from B.R. Custom Furniture were a delightful couple!  They own a custom furniture company out of Nelson BC, and they made sure that we took much needed breaks on their luxurious chairs, and swings. Continue Reading →

Eco-Chic Home: Rethink, Reuse & Remake Your Way to Sustainable Style by Emily Anderson (2010). Seattle, WA: Skipstone.

When you look at some of the objects around your home or some of the items you have bought on impulse, even the packaging that contained something useful, do you see it as junk or as something useful? Emily Anderson tends to see these items as useful, making magazine filing boxes from cereal boxes, covering an ugly two drawer filing cabinet with cloth to make a sweet end table, transforming CD jewel cases into a lamp, or even sewing pillowcases into a dry cleaning bag that you can ask your dry cleaner to use rather than giving you more plastic drape.

Eco-Chic Home moves from room to room within the home, repurposing and restyling. Each of the projects includes simple, crafty instructions and most, except maybe for drying time on some of them, would take a weekend to accomplish. Continue Reading →

Shift Your Habit: Easy Ways to Save Money, Simplify Your Life, and Save the Planet by Elizabeth Rogers. Three Rivers Press, 2010.

When persuading reluctant family members and friends to a “green” lifestyle, we usually encounter two big objections: money and time. The evidence in the store is that the green option is more expensive and that acting conscientiously, by either making your own, recycling or making a lifestyle change, is a big hassle.

Elizabeth Rogers, the author of Shift Your Habit, disagrees and she has found the evidence to prove it. Shift Your Habit suggests hundreds of simple changes, from opening your blinds and using sunlight to get work done during the day, to bigger changes, such as holding swap parties for clothing and entertainment items like video games. Each of the suggestions is environmentally-friendly and frugal, which overcomes the “it’s too expensive” objection to making a green lifestyle change and some of the tips include a “Good For You” section, meaning that it improves your health or saves time.

Continue Reading →