Sales Executive

Sales Executive - selling professional development training courseopportunities

January/Feb 2025 start

Salford, Manchester - Ourprestigious clientfocuses on continuous professional development and training courses across a range of subjectsIt also delivers several events and conferences and is building its international presence in conjunction with the Universitys priorities,preferably but not exclusively, aligned with programmes offered by the University of Salford.

£26k plus OTE £6k - £7k realistic in the first year uncapped,

Benefits

• Starting basic salary of £26k -Incentives in place to increase basic salary to £32k within 12-15 months based on performance and achieving targets. Upon hitting quarterly performance targets in your first year your salary rises by £1.5k every quarter.
• Uncapped Commission OTC between £7k-£14k per annum
• Hybrid working (2 days in the office per week following successful training)
• 24 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Christmas Closure
• Healthcare Cash plan
• Birthday off
• Subsidised University gym membership
• Professional Development opportunities
• Pension Scheme

The candidate for this position will excel at creating and closing new opportunities. By using a consultative approach to selling, this person will use their expertise to identify and qualify leads, leading to sales opportunities with both new and existing customers.

You will be working as part of a successful, dynamic, and proactive sales team in a vibrant environment. Your primary focus is to develop new customer relationships through a consultative sales method and expand on existing relationships with clients.

The successful candidate will hold a confident telephone manner and strong communication skills in order to effectively communicate our offering to clients. Over time, the role will evolve into an account management position though a significant part of the role will remain focused on new business development through the means of telephone, email and video conferencing.

For the first 6 weeks the candidate will benefit fromreceiving face to face, hands on 1-2-1 training at the premises in Manchester 3 days per week. Following successful training the candidate will then take on a hybrid role, with 2 days in the office per week once confident with product knowledge and achieving targets.

Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed sales targets by identifying business opportunities
• Provide accurate forecasting of pipeline sales
• Successfully create business from new and existing customer accounts
• Manage complex negotiations with senior-level executives
• Build rapport and establish long term relationships with customers, prospecting for new customers, using LinkedIn, social media and you will have a healthy list of qualified leads to work through too.
• Providing support to the team leader as and where required established team members will be asked to work on strategic sales initiatives, help to coach and develop other team members and help with product development.
• Effective customer service management,Maintaining all relevant management information systems,Attend team meetings and share best practice with colleagues

Requirements

• Significantsales experience
• Tele sales experience
• Demonstrable track record of achieving targets
• Strong written and verbal communication skills,Self-motivated Individual,Excellent customer service skills

To apply for the role of Sales Executive please email your cv to

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