Internal Sales (Customer Development)

Customer Development Associate (Internal Sales)
Sector: Internal Sales/Account Development
Location: Milton Keynes
Package: Basic Salary: £26,000per yearwith OTE £27,000
& Excellent PLC Benefits

The Opportunity
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a UK market leading PLC company who exercise a strong reward culture and effective sales model whereby you can expect to be selling a first rate service and products backed up by a strong support network and genuine scope for career advancement within the group. This vacancy sits within their flagship Milton Keynes Distribution Centre, where you shall be responsible for managing and developing multiple client accounts.

Company Profile
Market leading national packaging product distributor, with a large national network of distribution centres and national sales force, the business has been established for over fifty years and employs over 500 employees nationwide and prides itself on an impeccable industry reputation in supplying all manner of consumable products to industry.

The Role
This is an office based sales role, targeted and pro-active yet only focussed on developing a portfolio of existing accounts to increase customer spend and ensure they are receiving the best level of service. So whilst you shall be making regular outbound calls and handling incoming customer enquiries, there is no actual ‘cold calling’ as you will only be expected to proactively contact existing/historic and lapsed customers in order to build and enhance relationships further.

Do you have the correct profile?
In line with our client’s growth strategy, we are therefore welcoming applications from experienced internal/inside sales professionals who have a proven track record of account managing and developing allocated customer accounts. You must therefore be able to demonstrate a strong customer focus combined with a confident pro-active sales approach. You shall ideally be used to working to sales targets and it is imperative that you are residing within a sensible commute of the Milton Keynes office location.

The Rewards
This is a truly exceptional opportunity to join an established national group PLC company who reward results, offer excellent training and support career progression. Basic annual starting salary is £26,000. First year bonus OTE is realistically circa £27,000; Added to which, their standard benefits package include: Up to 33 days annual leave, additional holiday purchasing scheme, BUPA private health, Contributory Pension, Childcare vouchers, healthsaving cash plan, affiliate discount scheme (for use at various retail/leisure outlets nationally).

How to apply/Next Steps
If this sounds like your exciting next career move, please simply ensuring that your CV is up to date and reflective of the skills and experience that our client is seeking.

Shortlisted applicants can expect to be contacted for an initial telephone interview by a representative of Edge Specialist Recruitment, whereby our client is then able to arrange interviews swiftly for shortlisted candidates. Please note that we are anticipating an April start date for the successful applicant.

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within three working days maximum. If you do not hear back from us within this period, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful (due to extremely large volumes of online applicant traffic in the current climate we are unfortunately unable to respond to all applications).