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The Pre-Planning Service Advisor (PPSA) is a self-starter expected to achieve their quota (pacesetter) target by selling pre-need arrangements and services. The PPSA serves families in a professional, caring and timely manner. Follow-up and generation of referrals from client families are integral to success and to establish a strong service relationship with families. The PPSA also develops relationships with the community.
Job Responsibilities
Lead Generation
- Consistently networks and builds relationships to generate recommendations for gaining referrals for both at-need cemetery arrangements and pre-need arrangements using company tools, processes and standards
- Holds self accountable for prospecting a minimum of 4 hours every day (if working 8 hours) such as approaching families face-to-face during events, door knocking or group seminars
- Obtains referrals from families served by the location by following up through visits with families after the service
- Networks and builds community and civic relationships
- Explains and presents Dignity Memorial® Personal Planning Guide presentations to families served and referred families
- Maintains and tracks activity levels to ensure productivity
- Remains flexible with schedule to achieve results; often works nights and weekends
Build Relationships with Families
- Establishes and maintains strong business relationships with families by connecting with the family, relating to them, resolving their concerns and needs, and committing to follow through
- Responds to client inquiries in a timely, respectful, sensitive and professional manner
- Supports families in time of grief with acts of kindness
- Connects with families through listening, honest communication and genuine concern
- Develops an understanding of each family’s unique needs and offers solutions that provide value to them
- Stays in touch with families to ensure satisfaction
- Prepares for all appointments and performs all procedures with professionalism and attention to detail
- Provides service beyond expectations to ensure satisfaction and to form the foundation for future sales based on long-term relationships
- Builds trust-based relationships to earn the right to ask for referrals
- Earns the right to gain referrals to offer protection to protect family members, and the family’s relatives and friends, by educating them on the benefits of pre-planning
Teamwork
- Consistently builds relationships and works cooperatively with the Funeral Director and other funeral home and/or cemetery staff
- Collaborates and teams with funeral directors, location managers, and other members of funeral home and or cemetery staff, to provide seamless, high-quality service
- Represents a continuous link from services provided at need, through aftercare, to providing services to protect families in future
- Thoroughly and completely reviews previous services and contacts with families to prepare to support current needs and or sales
- Acts as one team, setting arrangement continuation visits within two to three days after the service
- Shares family concerns with rest of the SCI team
Minimum Requirements
Education
- High school education or equivalent
- 1-2 years of college or equivalent experience
License
- Current state/province issued driver’s license with an acceptable driving record
- In states/provinces where required, must hold a Funeral Directors License to perform this role
Experience
- Sales experience or one to two years industry experience or equivalent education
- Previous experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems is a plus
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Basic computer and technology skills within a sales environment
- Ability to work well in a team, as well as independently
- Ability to work beyond “standard” hours as the need arises
- Good driving record
- Good work ethic
- High-level of integrity
- Creative, outgoing and energetic
- Comfortable presenting in front of others
- Desire to help others
- Bilingual, knowledge of another language is a plus
Work Conditions
Work Environment
- Work indoors and outdoors during all seasons and weather conditions
- Local and/or multiple location traveling required
- Comply with dress code policy
Work Postures
- Sitting continuously for many hours per day, up to 6 hours per day
- May climb stairs to access buildings
Physical Demands
- Physical effort requiring manual dexterity is required, includes paperwork, calculators, computers and phone usage
Work Hours
- Working beyond “standard” hours as the need arises
Target Compensation Range: $70,000 to $150,000 annually. The estimated total target compensation for this position in the first year typically ranges from $70,000 to $100,000 annually, based on a strong commission-based incentive structure. In subsequent years, sales professionals commonly earn $100,000 to $150,000 or more annually. Actual compensation will vary based on individual performance, geographic location, and applicable business conditions.
Benefits:
Medical*Dental*Vision*Flexible Spending Accounts (health care and dependent care)*Health Savings Account with Company Contribution*Sick Leave*Short-Term Disability*Long-Term Disability*Life Insurance*Voluntary Accidental Death or Dismemberment Insurance*Dependent Life Insurance*SCI 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company match*Employee Assistance Program
Postal Code: 92404
Category (Portal Searching): Sales
Job Location: US-CA - San Bernardino
