Telemarketer / Telesales Executive

Telemarketer / Telesales Executive

Location: Halifax, Barkisland

Salary: £26,000 per yearbasic (19K OTE)

Hours: standard office hours, a potential of reduced hours around 30pw

Our client – a small but well established business is now looking for enthusiastic telemarketers/ telesales executives to join the small operation located in Barkisland.

The role is office based, generating new business opportunities supporting the growth of sales revenue across the business. This is a very proactive, telephone based role and the successful candidate will be cold calling new businesses on a daily basis.

Daily duties:

– to initiate, contact and develop the company’s business revenue and profit stream via new business appointments with direct customers

– to identify and target new organisations where there is an opportunity to deliver the products and services

Key Responsibilities:

Working closely with and under the guidance of the Managing Director

Generate and develop new business appointments and opportunities via outbound calling, emails and Social media, in turn generating revenue and profit flow across the business

A clear understanding of different sector requirements and how our services deliver value across a multitude of markets

Daily, weekly, monthly telesales campaign reviews

Establish up sell and or cross sell opportunities

Achievement of agreed activity levels

Working closely and supporting the New Business sales team on sector led telesales campaigns

Qualifications and Experience:

• Should ideally be educated to degree-level

• Will have gained experience within a business-to-business telesales / outbound customer service operation in a high-activity environment

• Will have gained experience from within a target / performance-led business

• Will ideally have experience of capital type products and be IT-literate

• Must have worked within a team-orientated culture, familiar with developing sales / marketing propositions

• Must be detail conscious and committed to keeping accurate and up-to-date records
• Will be ambitious, target-orientated with high levels of energy and drive

• Must be commercially aware, entrepreneurial and a strong team player

Person Profile

• Confidence and professional credibility
• Hungry and motivated to succeed yet with a business aware, consultative selling approach
• A good communicator, both orally and in writing, with the necessary confidence and business awareness to persuasively present a case
• The ability to think and act quickly, particularly under pressure
• Awareness of the need for urgency and able persuade staff and prospects to think the same