Architectural Services Sales Consultant - Chicago, IL

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At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

Architectural Services Consultant – Chicago Illinois

The Architectural Services Consultant will lead and manage projects to promote professional door hardware specification services, including Division 8 and 28, to prospective architectural accounts. This role will focus on executing a strategic "pull through" sales strategy to penetrate the market while ensuring project success from inception to completion.

What you will do:

• Strategic Account Management: Create and manage strategic objectives for target accounts, ensuring alignment with company goals.
• Project Management: Oversee hardware coordination for projects from the design phase through to substantial completion, ensuring adherence to established schedules.
• Brand Promotion: Actively promote Allegion brands and architectural services to enhance market presence.
• Collaboration and Education: Work closely with the business development team to deliver architectural education through Lunch and Learns, AIA conventions/trade shows, and industry networking events.
• Specification Procurement: Leverage industry knowledge and networks to secure project specification opportunities.
• Design Collaboration: Collaborate with architects, building owners, and contractors to derive door hardware design intent solutions for all project openings.
• Documentation Development: Develop comprehensive door hardware design intent documentation for both mechanical and access-controlled openings, supporting the work of full-time spec writers.
• Compliance Assurance: Ensure that door hardware design solutions comply with applicable building codes and industry standards.
• Consulting Agreements: Utilize relationships and industry expertise to initiate architectural consulting agreements with firms.
• Sales Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Allegion service area sales team members, including end-user reps, subject matter experts, and distribution reps, to convert written specifications into revenue from hardware sales.
• Project Tracking: Track project status monthly, report findings to the sales team at monthly project tracking meetings and follow up on assigned action items.
• Market Adaptation: Maintain excellent industry and competitor product knowledge by reviewing market data and adapting to changes in the marketplace.
• Policy Compliance: Maintain awareness of all Allegion policies, guidelines, and procedures to ensure compliance.

What You Need To Succeed:

• Education: High School Diploma required; bachelor’s degree preferred. PMP Certification a plus.
• Customer Service: Strong focus on providing excellent customer service.
• Location: Must reside within Northern Illinois, Northwest Indiana, or Wisconsin to effectively serve customers in the territory.
• Experience: Experience: A minimum of 7 to 10 years of varied experience is required, preferably in a role that encompasses project management, team collaboration, solutions design, and critical, logical, and process-oriented thinking. Previous experience in architecture or the door hardware industry is highly desirable.
• Building Codes Knowledge: Understanding of building codes or the ability to quickly learn how they impact door hardware and access control solutions.
• Travel: Ability to travel up to 50% within the territory, with minimal to no overnight travel required.

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if: 

• You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others.  With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”.

• You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development.  As we grow, we want you to grow with us. 

• You want a culture that promotes work-life balance.  Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work! 

What You’ll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”  

• Unlimited Paid Time Off

• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, which currently offers a 6% company match and no vesting period 

• Health Savings Accounts – Tax-advantaged savings account used for healthcare expenses

• Flexible Spending Accounts – Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare and/or dependent daycare expenses

• Disability Insurance –Short-Term and Long-Term coverage, paid for by Allegion, provides income replacement for illness or injury

• Life Insurance – Term life coverage with the option to purchase supplemental coverage

• Tuition Reimbursement  

• Voluntary Wellness Program – Simply complete wellness activities and earn up to $2,000 in rewards

• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work 

• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can “serve others, not yourself” 

• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths assessment & coaching 

Compensation: This range is provided by Allegion. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience.

• The expected total compensation range: $97,300 - $151,900. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.

Apply Today!

Join our team of experts today and help us make tomorrow’s world a safer place!

Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role.

We Celebrate Who We Are! 

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do.   We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

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