Internal Sales Executive

Salary: £30,000 – £33,600 per year

Working from incoming leads, the Internal Sales Executive will be speaking to prospective customers to understand their needs then arranging for a member of the surveying team to visit, complete a survey, produce a report on their findings and the recommended actions.

This is not a hard sell, it is finding out what the issue is, asking the right questions, gaining the relevant detail, understanding, and gaining the trust of the potential customer and arranging for the right member of the surveying team to visit for which the basic salary guide is £30,000 – £33,600per year.

If you are successful in arranging both the survey and gaining the agreement for the company to complete the works then a commission is payable which increases the guide for total earnings to £45,000+.

The company is a key provider of landscape improvement services, so you will have a varied day speaking to people about landscape maintenance, landscape improvement, japanese knotweed or bamboo treatment plans, grounds maintenance and even a winter gritting service all of which require a friendly approach to gathering the information needed, the confidence and initiative to ask relevant questions, the attention to detail skills to ensure everything that is important is gathered and based on that initial call coming up with a solution which will mostly be for one of the company surveyors to visit, inspect and produce a report detailing both their findings and the solution they are recommending. This is sent to the prospective customer and then followed up by the Internal Sales Executive to ensure they understand what is included in the report in terms of findings and solution options and working to gain their agreement for work to commence to resolve the issue.

The Internal Sales Executive will be joining a well established and growing landscape services provider which has already grown their business to £3 Million and are now on the pathway to increase that to their next target of £10 Million.

You will be joining a very successful company and be a key part of the team working to grow the business to the next level. With this growth will come the career progression opportunities you would expect as within a smaller team you will be noticed for the positive impact that you make.

The Sales Office Manager is looking for someone who will ask open questions, cover all the bases, build that initial relationship gaining the potential customers confidence, review what they are doing and if there are then suggest ways to improve how they do things, variances to marketing plans, approaches to calls etc., and really getting involved in growing the business.

The Internal Sales Executive will be joining a close working team in what is a very friendly and proactive office. Full training on the sector in which they work, and the survey options will be given. Ongoing training and the full support of the wider team will be available so coming from the sector is not a requirement, what is key is solution based sales so this could suit a Recruitment Consultant, an Estate Agent, a New Build Housing Development Sales Consultant, a Sales Office or Customer Service Team Member, a Kitchen Sales Person, a Recent Graduate who has for example was involved in promoting charity subscriptions door to door or in the street whilst at University or since leaving, as the requirement is the confidence to speak to people, understanding how to ask questions and what questions to ask to find out the detail and for all of this to foster a feeling of confidence and trust in you and the company.

On offer is a basic salary of £30,000 – £33,600(OTE guide of £45,000+), four weeks holiday plus all bank holidays and a day of for your birthday, enrolment into the company pension scheme, onsite free parking, and career progression opportunities.