Family Service Counselor
- Full-time
Company Description
Hardage-Giddens funeral homes have a long and storied history in the Jacksonville community. We're going on a century of providing funeral, burial, cremation and cemetery services through what has grown to be a group of 11 funeral homes and 5 cemeteries in Florida's Duval and Clay counties.
We are a member of the Dignity Memorial network of funeral, cremation and cemetery service providers. As a Dignity Memorial provider, we pride ourselves on not only offering the warm, friendly service you’d expect from a locally operated funeral home, but also the value our clients deserve
Job Description
*Commission based position*
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
Qualifications
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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
Job Type: Full-time
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.