Senior Sales Executive

Sales Executive - Full Time, Permanent

Our growing client near Cirencester, is looking to recruit a proactive Sales Executive into their team on a full-time, permanent basis. This is a great opportunity to join a friendly, down to earth and hardworking team.

Job Overview

Your main responsibilities will be to identify and qualify new potential customers that could benefit from the services of the company (a service provider) and partner company, with the aim to grow the current customer base and result in successful closure of sales deals by the wider team, and more sign ups to partnered company's software.

In this role, you will be conducting initial outreach over the phone, so you must be happy to make cold phone calls. There is no micromanagement here, so you will be expected to be a proactive self starter. Technical/software experience, whilst beneficial, is not essential for this role, as full product and service training will be offered on an ongoing basis. What matters most is your motivation, proactivity and people skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop new sales opportunities by following up on leads as well as outbound telephone outreach, with follow ups via email and social media.
• Speak with potential clients, asking relevant questions to assess their needs.
• Provide follow up emails/calls with further information as requested by the customer.
• Explaining and demonstrating the basic features and functions of company services.
• Researching for new leads and ensure competition activity is monitored.
• Keeping up to date with product and service information and competitor offers.
• Identifying upselling opportunities and offering where relevant.

Key Attributes

• Happy to conduct initial outreach over the phone.
• Highly organised.
• Resilient and patient - understanding that the typical sales cycle can take 3 6 months from initial outreach.
• Clear communicator.
• Hours: Full time Monday to Friday (onsite) with some flexibility on start/finish times.

Salary & Benefits

£50,000 - £60,000 per annum basic salary with commission (OTE potential up to £170k).