2024 FK Sale Catalog

 

Welcome to our 2024 End of Year FK Sale Catalog featuring floor samples & Lucky Fish Gallery art looking for a loving home.

*More Sale details within the PDF link*

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OUR EVENT PARTNERS

 

LIBRARY REPLENISHMENT EVENT SEPT 28, 2023

 
 
 

 

VENDORS

POSITION: SAMPLE LIBRARIAN

 

Job Title: SAMPLE LIBRARIAN

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Terms: Part Time, Flexible Hours, $13.50/hour

About Us: Francis King is Minnesota’s largest to the trade showroom and is located in Minneapolis’ historic International Market Square.  We work with many top brands and offer over 150 years of collective experience in the showroom industry.  Our customers are the upper Midwest’s leading Interior Designers and Drapery work rooms. 

About the role: We are looking for an enthusiastic, outgoing personality who is customer service driven and team oriented. This is a sales support position that focuses on maintaining the order of a memo room/sample department.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain product knowledge and work closely with staff

  • Hang new product

  • Take down discontinued product

  • Follow vendor rotations

  • Pull memos

  • Organize Memo Room

  • Fill fridge with water help take out garbage

  • Help when needed on showroom floor

  • 15-20 hours a week

  • Adapt to various needs of the selling staff

Candidate Requirements:

  • Follow detailed directions

  • Product Oriented

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

  • Problem solving skills

  • Service oriented

  • Good team member

  • Willing to switch directions throughout the day

  • Ability to lift 25 pounds

What we offer:

  • Competitive compensation

  • Simple IRA / Matching

  • Generous paid time off

  • Paid holidays

  • Creative work environment

Contact us: SUSAN@francisking.com

 

POSITION OPENING

 

Job Title: Furniture Service Associate

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Terms: Full time, COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION, Monday – Friday 9-5

About Us: Francis King is Minnesota’s largest to the trade showroom and is located in Minneapolis’ historic International Market Square. We work with many top brands and offer over 150 years of collective experience in the showroom industry. Our customers are the upper Midwest’s leading Interior Designers and Drapery work rooms.

About the role: The Furniture Service Associate works with customers, vendors, and coworkers to provide timely resolutions on service issues and acccounts payable.

Responsibilities:

  • Solves service issues with damaged product.

  • Frequent follow up communication.

  • Communicate with vendors or freight companies regarding service claims.

  • Communication with vendors, receiving warehouses and repair professionals.

  • Coordinate completion of service requests with customers, vendors, etc.

  • Communicates with internal and external personnel in a professional and timely manner.

  • Receives receiving reports, enters release number, receives PO and delivers product on invoice.

  • Informs designer goods are in and sends invoice for balance due.

Candidate Requirements:

  • 3+ Years of Customer Service experience.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication.

  • Problem solving skills.

  • Service oriented.

  • Good team member.

What we offer:

  • Competitive compensation.

  • Simple IRA / Matching

  • Generous paid time off.

  • Paid holidays.

Contact us: katie@francisking.com

 

POSITION: LIGHTING SPECIALIST/SALES ASSOCIATE

 

Job Title: Lighting Specialist / Sales Associate

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Terms: Full time, Non-Exempt, Monday – Friday 9-5

About Us: Francis King is Minnesota’s largest to the trade showroom and is located in Minneapolis’ historic International Market Square.  We work with many top brands and offer over 150 years of collective experience in the showroom industry.  Our customers are the upper Midwest’s leading Interior Designers and Drapery work rooms. 

About the role: We are looking for an enthusiastic, outgoing personality who is sales focused and customer driven, who has knowledge of selling residential lighting and has a passion with the interiors. This is a sales position that will focus on residential lighting.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain product knowledge and work closely with vendors

  • Leader in selling lighting and lighting plans for new construction

  • Write lighting price quotes

  • Follow up with outstanding quotes

  • Assist designers in finding appropriate product for their current projects

  • Check pricing and stock

  • Send finish samples

  • Answer phone calls and email

  • Refer designers to FK associates for furniture, fabric, trimming and wallpaper sales

  • Provide quality service to customers

  • Keep close relationships with existing and new customers

Candidate Requirements:

  • 3+ Years of selling residential lighting/Interior Design/showroom/retail experience

  • Proficient with Microsoft Outlook and Excel

  • Excellent sales, communication, customer service and computer skills

  • Problem solving skills

  • Service oriented

  • Good team member

  • Willing to jump in

  • Needs to be able to multitask

What we offer:

  • Competitive compensation

  • Simple IRA / Matching

  • Generous paid time off

  • Paid holidays

  • Creative work environment

Contact us: charlie@francisking.com

 

POSITION INTERN

 

Job Title: Internship

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Terms: Hourly, Flexible hours, Open Monday - Thursday 9 - 5 and Friday 9 - 4

About Us: Francis King is Minnesota’s largest to the trade showroom and located in Minneapolis’ historic International Market Square. We work with many top brands and offer over 150 years of collective experience in the showroom industry. Our customers are the upper Midwest’s leading Interior Designers and Drapery work rooms. We live by our core values every day. We are Product Oriented, Our True Selves, Committed, Winning, and Willing.

About the role: We are looking for a team member who loves Interior Design! Who wants to learn and understand how a showroom operates on a day-to-day basis. You will learn about finding the appropriate fabric for an application, selling our product, what designers needs and wants are, how to find the perfect options for a project. You will also learn how important it is to be able to communicate with designers and network with them. Daily tasks will be filing memos, hanging new product, taking down discontinued product, and supporting our sales staff.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain product knowledge and work closely with staff

  • Assist designers find appropriate product for their current projects

  • Check pricing and stock

  • Hang new product

  • Take down discontinued product

  • Follow vendor rotations

  • Pull memos

  • Organize Memo Room

  • Fill fridge with water help take out garbage

  • Help when needed on showroom floor

  • Paid position at $13.50 per hour

Candidate Requirements:

  • Likes working with beautiful things

  • Product Oriented, Committed, Winning, Willing, True self

  • Good written and verbal communication skills

  • Problem solving skills

  • Service oriented

  • Good team member

What we offer:

  • Competitive compensation.

  • Simple IRA / Matching

  • Generous paid time off.

  • Paid holidays.

Contact us: susan@francisking.com

 

POSITION AVAILABLE

 
 

Outside Sales Representative – Francis King Ltd.

 

Job Title: Outside Sales Representative

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Terms: Full time, Salary plus commission; Monday – Friday 9-5

Travel: Yes

About Us: Francis King is Minnesota’s largest to the trade showroom and is located in Minneapolis’ historic International Market Square.  We work with many top brands and offer over 150 years of collective experience in the showroom industry.  Our customers are the upper Midwest’s leading Interior Designers and Drapery work rooms. 

About the role: We are looking for an enthusiastic, outgoing personality who is customer service driven who has knowledge of selling fabric, trimmings, wallcoverings, window coverings and has a passion with the interiors. This is a sales position that will focus on updating libraries, showing newest collections and assist designers with their projects needs. The territory consists of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain product knowledge and work closely with vendors

  • Leader in selling the brands represented

  • Accountable for vendor accountability duties

  • Customer focused

  • Product Driven

  • Assist designers find appropriate product for their current projects

  • Attend vendor sales meetings

  • Pull memos

  • Answer phone calls and email

  • Cross sell fabric, trimming and wallpaper

  • Provide quality service to customers and keep a close relationship with existing customers and new customers

Candidate Requirements:

  • Proficient with Microsoft Outlook and Excel

  • Excellent sales, communication, customer service and computer skills

  • Problem solving skills

  • Service oriented

  • Good team member

  • Willing to jump in

  • Needs to be able to multitask and self-starter

  • Organization and management skills

What we offer:

  • Competitive compensation

  • Simple IRA / Matching

  • Generous paid time off

  • Paid holidays

Contact us: abby@francisking.com