Sales Executive

Salary: £28,800 per year

Our client is an award winning, growing group of companies offering outstanding career opportunities and benefits packages at their flagship Yorkshire location. The company has a turnover in the hundreds of millions and this position is Monday to Friday 9-5 at their attractive base.

They offer bonus schemes, contributory pension, parking, access to training, career development and more.

In line with continued expansion the company wish to strengthen the Sales team by adding a business Sales Executive.

Working as part of a busy and friendly team the successful candidate will proactively develop new business and build/nurture existing client relationships to maximise the potential. You will take ownership of your own key accounts and sales calls are mostly to warm leads/lapsed clients. All in a B2B(business to business)environment with support and guidance from your colleagues. Responsibilities will include:

• New business development through telesales and occasional field sales
• Key Account Management
• Generating & Calculating quotations / tender documents
• Developing long lasting relationships with new clients
• Managing the existing and new client quotes

You will ideally have:

• Logistics, distribution, transport, Freight forwarding or export sales experience, (ideal but not essential as training is provided).
• Proven Telesales/telephone marketing experience.
• of negotiating with clients/ suppliers.
• Key account management experience 
• Good IT skills (Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

.This position will suit an ambitious sales person ready to further their career to the next level- it will suit candidates from a sales/telephone marketing/telesales/callcentre/contact centte/key account manager/field sales/business development /telemarketing/freight/import/export or similar background.