OUR PURPOSE
SunCommon believes that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and brighter future – and renewable energy is where it starts. Energy from the sun can power our lives and build vibrant communities. Our mission is to tear down barriers to clean energy and use our business as a force for good.
ABOUT THE BUSINESS
SunCommon is a marriage of two Rochester, NY and Vermont-based innovative, renewable energy companies. In January 2017, the companies joined forces to become a regional solar powerhouse that boasts Vermont’s largest residential solar business (with more than 3000 Vermonters served!), a thriving commercial solar construction business, and significant market share in the fast-growing Rochester solar market that is home to more than 1 million people.
We utilize an innovative community organizing approach to marketing, via high-touch, personal interactions with home and business owners who want solar but can’t figure it out or don’t think they can afford it. We do all the legwork to put together a total package that’s easy for the customer. We pick the best equipment manufacturers, line up the finest installers and arrange attractive financing that saves our customers real money – all while doing right by the planet. Our team manages solar projects soup-to-nuts to ensure solar is accessible to all.
ABOUT THIS POSITION
SunCommon Solar Home Advisors are outgoing folks who love meeting new people and have a strong work ethic.
Our Solar Home 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 Home 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 Home 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.
Solar Home 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
- Close sales – not by taking customer orders but by gathering information and 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 – this is absolutely key.
- Conduct basic site evaluations, to determine the technical suitability of our customers’ homes to host a productive solar electric 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
- Manage time effectively.
- 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
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- Personality and experience. Do you revel in customer interaction and sales? You might be the newest SunCommon Solar Home Advisor.
- Solar industry experience is a plus but not required.
- Handiness, meaning familiarity with basic building 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.
PAY & BENEFITS
SunCommon provides our Solar Home Advisor employees with competitive pay and a strong package of benefits, including:
- For the employee and her/his family, fully paid medical premiums as well as a significant contribution toward medical deductible expenses,
- For the employee and a spouse or dependent, fully paid dental premiums,
- 3 weeks paid personal leave (combined vacation and sick) for year 1; 4 weeks for year 2,
- 10 paid holidays annually,
- 401k company match 1:1 up to 3% of salary that the employee sets aside then 1:2 match for 4 or 5%.
- SunCommon provides our Advisors with the tools they need to succeed at their jobs, including a car (with gas, insurance and maintenance), MacBook laptop computer, iPad and iPhone.
HOW WE WORK
We feel huge responsibility to succeed, to honor our triple bottom line commitments to people (our employees and their families, our Customers and residents of the communities where we do business), planet (Vermont’s beloved environment and the broader globe, given climate change) and profit (providing capital to grow, revenue to share among our employees, and a reasonable return to our investors). This is important work, and we have fun doing it. Innovation is fun stuff.
We do it by celebrating 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. We know success. We know fun. Come do both with us.
APPLYING
In PDF format, provide us a cover letter (including one of your greatest accomplishments) along with your resume to hr@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.
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