Company: Sika
Location: Toronto, ON
Expected salary:
Job date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 23:12:52 GMT
Job description: Company DescriptionSika Canada, a subsidiary of the Sika Group, is a leader in the development and manufacture of specialty chemicals. In the field of construction, the company operates in markets such as concrete repair, maintenance, and protection, building finishing, shotcrete, tunnelling & mining, roofing, concrete admixtures, and flooring. It also serves the manufacturing industry (automotive, transportation equipment, etc.) with bonding and sealing, assembly and damping solutions specifically developed for these markets.Sika Canada has operations in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia and employs more than 650 people in Canada. The company is ISO 9001 – 14001 certified and a member of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC).Job DescriptionAre you looking for a challenging summer job where you can put your sales and customer service skills to good use? Join our dynamic residential construction products sales team for the summer and you never know, you might land a career at Sika!You will be primarily responsible for the merchandising and promotion of our products in renovation centers located in the Greater Toronto Area. We are looking for one candidate in the Western GTA (Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington).Duration: 4 Months Internship (May 1st to August 30th, 2024)
Core Functions:
- Answer customer questions
- Perform product demo in home improvement stores
- Ensure that our products are well arranged
- Ensure that we never run out of our products, refresh our displays
- Sell and install displays
- Generate orders
- Provide new ideas
- Establish and maintain a good relationship with our customers
QualificationsMinimum requirement
- Experience in sales
- Knowledge of the construction market
- Physically located in the regions of Western GTA (Brampton, Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington etc.)
- Follow a complete training on Sika products
- Curious, sociable, excellent oral communication skills, able to work independently, hands-on, and available for travelling.
- Should have a car and a valid driving license. (car allowance offered)
This is a remote role – students will be travelling to our renovation centers around the GTA and providing assistance in merchandizing our products and providing customer and store assistance. Students will be reimbursed for gas and have a car allowance per pay period as they are required to have their own vehicle for travelling between the stores.Additional Information
- Join the family of Sika AG, with over 33,500 employees and companies set up in over 100 countries, which provide ample of opportunities to grow.
- Many of our employees describe their working relationships at Sika as friendly, personable and sincere. We call this the “Sika Spirit”.
- For such a large company, we have a surprisingly flat hierarchy with direct decision-making processes and decentralized organizational units.
- We firmly believe that the diversity of our workforce is a key contributing factor to our success story.
Sika is committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals that apply. As an equal opportunity employer Sika will consider all qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, or other protected characteristics.Sika Canada discloses that we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the initial screening of applications. However, we want to emphasize that AI does not make final decisions or eliminate candidates from consideration. Our dedicated hiring managers and recruiters carefully review all applications to ensure a fair and comprehensive evaluation process. This approach combines the efficiency of AI with the expertise and judgment of our experienced hiring team, allowing us to identify the best candidates while maintaining a human-centered hiring process.
