About this Position
SunCommon Solar Advisors are outgoing folks who love meeting new people and have a strong work ethic.
Our Solar Advisors take a consultative approach to educating customers on the growing role that solar is playing in our clean energy future and how individual homeowners can participate. Solar Advisors spend much of their time visiting with homeowners helping them reach their solar goals. Most of our customer visits happen during normal work hours Monday-Friday, but we are there for our customers to follow up when they need us — nights, weekends, rain or shine
Our Solar Advisors are the face of SunCommon for our customers and are expected to carry themselves in the utmost professional manner. This position requires tact, adaptability, confidence (without arrogance), and a high degree of customer service and professionalism.
Our Solar Advisors are also required to have a strong technical grasp of how solar energy works to inform the design done by our engineers who design the systems. SunCommon provides all essential training.
Essential Job Functions![IMG_9858]()
- Close sales – not by taking customer orders but by gathering informationand building the relationship to understand the customer’s needs and fashion options to meet them.
- Finalize deals and sign contracts at client homes.
- Exhibit positive, enthusiastic personality is absolutely key.
- Conduct site evaluations, gathering the technical information needed to later design the system.
- Determine customer’s current and projected electrical usage and solar savings.
- Convey clear understanding of our sales process and contract agreements — and be able to explain and review agreements to close customers.
- Maintain mobility to climb stairs, inspect attics, and traverse uneven topography.
- Log all communications with customers in CRM contact database
- Effective time management.
- Operate in collaborative, team atmosphere – giving and taking feedback to improve your personal performance as well of that of your team and the entire business.
Job Qualifications:
- Personality and experience. Do you revel in customer interaction and sales? You might be the newest SunCommon Solar Advisor.
- Solar industry experience is a plus but not required.
- Handiness, meaning familiarity with basic construction.
- Proficiency in using IT hardware (iPhone, MacBook, iPad) and software (MSOffice, CRM and file management).
- Desire to stay on the leading edge of the solar and renewable energies industry.
- Strong and confident team player with solid relationship building skills.
- Articulate in person and by phone, clear and efficient writing ability for emails.
- Ability to drive a car, clean driving record and maintenance of that clean driving record.
- Demonstrated commitment to social change.
How We Work
We feel a huge responsibility to succeed. This is important work, and we have fun doing it. We celebrate creativity, cross-function collaboration, high energy, hard work, good play, deep networking and with the acknowledgement that we’ll each make mistakes and learn from them.
In addition to meaningful work, we offer competitive salary ($45-90k depending on performance) and generous benefits (health, dental, paid leave time, retirement contribution).
Applying
- Send a cover letter in PDF format. Please include in your cover letter discussion of one of your greatest accomplishments. Send it to info@SunCommon.com .
- Send a resume in PDF format. Please do not exceed 2 pages. Submit to info@SunCommon.com .
SunCommon of course is an equal opportunity employer and we don’t tolerate harassment or other discrimination based upon sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, race, color, religion, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other legally protected status.
About SunCommon
SunCommon believes that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and safer world. Our mission is to tear down the barriers that have made renewable energy inaccessible and we intend to repower our communities one home, one school, and one business at a time. We make going solar easy and affordable so that all Vermonters can together create a healthy environment and safer world.
We launched in the Spring of 2012 and already have changed the solar landscape in Vermont. In 2012 most Vermonters who went solar, in the counties where SunCommon works, did so with SunCommon. We only work with the best solar manufacturers, certified electricians on every installation, and easy financing to ensure our customers will save with solar for decades to come.
June, 2013