Sales Professional - Inside Sales

Posted:
12/16/2025, 10:14:57 PM

Location(s):
California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level

Field(s):
Customer Success & Support ⋅ Sales & Account Management

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

Our Advisors assist families, most often in a home sales presentation, by helping them make decisions about the planning of their Funeral Services and Cemetery Property needs in advance of their time of need.

Job Responsibilities

Lead Generation

  • Holds self-accountable for prospecting a minimum of 1-2 hours each day

  • Obtains referrals from families served by the location

  • Networks and builds community and civic relationships

  • Explains and presents presentations to families served and referred families

  • Maintains and tracks activity levels to ensure productivity

Build Relationships with Families

  • Responds to client inquiries in a timely, respectful, sensitive and professional manner

  • 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

  • Follows through on all customer problems and requests

  • 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

  • Represents a continuous link from services provided at need, through aftercare, to providing services to protect families in the future

  • Collaborates and teams with funeral directors, location managers, and other members of funeral home and or cemetery staff, to provide seamless, high quality service

  • Thoroughly and completely reviews previous services and contacts with families to prepare to support current needs and or sales

  • Shares family concerns with rest of the SCI team

Minimum Requirements

Education

  • High school diploma or equivalent

  • 1-2 years of college or an equivalent of education and experience

Experience

  • High school equivalency and 1-2 years of college or an equivalent of education and experience

  • 1-2 years of customer service or sales industry experience preferred

      

Licenses

  • Current state/province issued driver’s license with an acceptable driving record

  • Insurance license if required by state/province law and as prescribed by each state board

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Must be able to pass the Company’s internal presentation certification within thirty days of hire

  • Ability to work a number of evenings and or weekends every month

  • Ability to drive frequently

  • Ability to obtain and maintain an insurance license if required by state/province

  • Flexible hours but, at times must have the ability to work up to 12 hours in a day

  • Ability to treat others with empathy and respect

  • Knowledge of computers and some software

  • Customer service skills

Target Compensation Range: $50,000 to $100,000 annually.
The estimated total target compensation for this position in the first year typically ranges from $50,000 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.

(Note: As part of the total compensation plan, this position pays no less than $16.90 per hour for all hours worked)


Benefits:
MedicalDentalVisionFlexible Spending Accounts (health care and dependent care)Health Savings Account with Company ContributionSick LeaveShort-Term DisabilityLong-Term DisabilityLife InsuranceVoluntary Accidental Death or Dismemberment InsuranceDependent Life InsuranceSCI 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company matchEmployee Assistance Program
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Postal Code: 95326

Category (Portal Searching): Sales

Job Location: US-CA - Hughson