Showroom Sales Consultant - Paarl

Status Staffing

Paarl, Western Cape

Full-time

Posted 48 min ago

Full-time Marketing & Sales

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Job Description

Our client is seeking an experienced Showroom Sales Consultant to join their luxury furniture and interiors team in Paarl, Cape Town. This is an exciting opportunity for a confident, customer-focused sales professional with a passion for high-end furniture, interiors, and design. The ideal candidate will have 2–4 years of relevant sales experience, strong design knowledge, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and a keen eye for detail. Experience within the interior design and trade procurement sector will be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

Sales Generation & Consultative Selling:

Achieve and exceed monthly individual sales targets across retail and trade categories.
Provide personalized design consultations to showroom clients, assisting with spatial layout planning, fabric selection, timber finishes, and customized furniture specifications.
Systematically follow up on open quotes, customer queries, and pending trade projects to maximize sales conversion.

Trade & Decorator Client Relations:

Build and nurture relationships with visiting interior designers, decorators, architects, and hospitality buyers within the Paarden Eiland design hub.
Process trade applications, issue project quotations, order fabric swatches, and manage lead times for design industry professionals.
Maintain an up-to-date client database for regular outreach regarding new collection launches and trade offers.

Showroom Operations & Floor Standards:

Ensure the showroom presentation, styled vignettes, price tags, and fabric sample swatches are always immaculate.
Accurately process quotes, sales orders, lay-bys, and payments through the retail POS/ERP system (e.g. OMNI).
Coordinate with logistics, manufacturing, and warehouse teams to provide customers with accurate lead times and updates on delivery schedules.

HOURS:

Retail hours

Requirements

2–4 years of proven sales experience in high-end furniture, home décor, finishes, or luxury interior retail.
A strong understanding of interior aesthetics, textiles, timbers, custom upholstery specifications, and spatial planning.
An established network or working knowledge of Cape Town’s interior design and trade procurement sector will be a strong advantage.
Computer literate, with experience using retail ERP/POS systems (e.g. OMNI), email correspondence, and basic Excel or Google Sheets.
Fluent in English; proficiency in Afrikaans is beneficial. Excellent verbal presentation and written communication skills.
Strong interpersonal and active listening skills, excellent time management and organisational abilities, and a customer-first mindset.
Consistently meeting or exceeding monthly personal revenue targets.
Maintaining a high conversion rate from written quotes to closed sales.
Proven ability to onboard local trade clients and generate repeat sales orders.
Exceptional administrative accuracy, with zero errors on customer sales orders, custom timber and fabric specifications, and payment balances.