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Our client a Freight Forwarding Company is seeking an Internal Sales Executive to join their team based in Hertfordshire, to build and develop existing client relationships and maximise business potential and calculate Air, Road and Sea Freight quotations.
Internal Sales Executive duties include:
- Initiate sales activities
- Prepare, deliver and follow up quotations and leads in a timely manner
- On spot quotes
- Dealing with import/export enquiries
- Identifying sales leads
- Recording and reporting the outcomes of sales leads
- Actively engage with operational departments
- Developing business relationships with existing and new customer base
The Internal Sales Executive will need:
- Multi-modal freight forwarding experience, ideally with an export bias.
- Alternatively export sales experience.
- Either Sales / customer service or Operations experience.
- Proven success of handling and calculating RFQ's and tender submissions.
- Experience of negotiating with clients and or suppliers.
- Key account management experience with proven success of developing relationships.
- Experience of calculating KPI reports.
- Experience of face to face client and supplier meeting.
- Good administrative skills.
- Good numerical skills.
- Good IT skills (Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)
We're keen to talk to people who have 3+ years' experience in freight sales or telesales, or who have worked as a BDM or Account Manager within the logistics industry.
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