Customer Sales Executive

Don't miss these fantastic permanent opportunities to join our Customer Sales Team in Wakefield!

This is a brilliant opportunity to developyour existing sales and account management skills with the potential to grow into a more senior sales role in time or to work in other functions within the business.

Ideal candidates will have worked within a sales role and have the right transferable skills. We would welcome applicants that have worked within customer service or recruitment. We are looking for positive, self motivated and committed people that enjoy working in a sales environment and making outbound telephone calls to deliver a first class customer service.

Training and support are provided on the job as well as a clear and defined monthly sales plan from your manager. You will be eligible for our sales incentive plan when you have passed your probationary period.

These roles are full time (35 hours a week) but we welcome applicants that would consider working on a part time or job share basis! We offer flexible working patterns and you can work between the hours of 8am and 6pm to suit your needs.

These roles are based from our Wakefield office (WF1) so you must be within commuting distance, however, after a successful completion of probationary period, we offer hybrid working between the office and home.

We shortlist on an ongoing basis and may close this advert early. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

This appointment will be made on merit.

We believe that diversity and inclusion strengthens and enriches us, and that it is the responsibility of everyone at City & Guilds to drive this value. As ethnic minority groups and disabled people are currently under-represented, we particularly encourage and welcome applications from these communities.

As a Customer Sales Executive, you will be provided with ongoing training and support to work on both reactive and proactive sales campaigns in-line with our sales strategies. Campaigns cover our full range of products and services, delivered to both new and existing customers.Achieving performance targets and pipeline activity through managing a caseload of customers or campaign objectives, predominantly over the phone but also email based as well. You'll generatesales meetings and customer demonstrations for the specialist team.

You will also manage customer inboxes for new centre enquiries and general enquiries into the department as well as working collaboratively with colleagues across the business to bring the right expertise to the business. A key element of the role is also analysing trends and insights, to drive business decisions and continuous improvement.

We are looking for motivated, hardworking and passionate individuals who are confident in making outbound sales calls and who have a strong resilient work ethic. Ideally, you will have some experience in sales or generating new business but equally you could have experience working within recruitment or a call centre/customer service environment.

You'll be accountable for meeting your own deadlines, targets and KPIs so you must becustomer-focused, have a passion for delivering a great customer experience and be comfortable working to quarterly targets. Finally, you'll need great team working skills as well as possessing a flexible, adaptable approach and be motivated by new challenges.

Full training and ongoing support is provided in this role as well as a defined monthly plan by your manager. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your sales and account management skills, which could develop into more senior sales roles or act as a stepping stone to other functions within the business.

Our vision is for a world in which everyone has the skills and opportunities to succeed. We support almost five million people each year to develop skills that help them into a job, develop on that job and to prepare for their next job. As a charity, were proud that everything we do is focused on achieving this purpose.

Through our assessment and credentialing, corporate learning and technical training offers, we partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start.

At the heart of our business sits the City & Guilds Foundation which amplifies our purpose by helping to remove barriers to getting into a job, celebrating best practice on the job, and advocating for jobs of the future.

We were founded in 1878 by the City of London and the trade guilds of the time, to help people, organisations and economies to develop their skills for growth.

Our rich experience means were uniquely positioned to understand the future of work and learning. And we continually evolve to develop and deliver skills for the workplace of the future. Today, as well as qualifications and assessment, we offer digital credentialing, elearning technologies, executive leadership development, technical training and consultancy.

We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, engaging and market-leading organisation with opportunities to develop your existing skills and explore new ones.

As this is a sales based role, you will qualify for our sales incentive plan upon successful completion of your probation. You will also receive an excellent benefits package which typically includes 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension, private healthcare, volunteering opportunities and much more.

We welcome a discussion about how this role could work flexibly for you. For example work pattern, hours or location.

If you think this is the role and organisation for you then we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and complete our short application form using the apply button.