Job Title: Business Development / Sales Executive
Location: Silsoe
Salary: £18,000 – £19,000 per annum + Commission
Working hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00 to 17.30 and Friday 9.00 to 17.00
Sprint develops solutions for companies who want to keep pace with technology, our strategic focus is on fixed lines, broadband and hosted telephony systems. We work closely with our partners to gain an in depth understanding of their requirements, future goals and aspirations.
This is a fantastic opportunity to start a career in sales and for the right person, progress through this growing company at a rapid rate. The main role of the Telesales Executive will be to create new sales opportunities through outbound calls to small to medium businesses selling our portfolio of services and working closely with the Sales Director to generate revenue from them.
Key Responsibilities:
- Initiating Sales with potential customers over the phone
- Asking questions to engage customers and keep the conversation going
- Listening to the customers’ needs to generate repeat sales
- Gathering and documenting customer information, purchases, and reactions to products
- Upsell customers to larger products, more extensive packages, or higher priced services
- Keeping up to date on all products and informing customers of new products.
- Answering customers’ questions on the products
- Go the extra mile to meet sales quota and facilitate future sales
- Keeping internal systems up to date
The Candidate:
- You will be an organised, enthusiastic, confident individual who enjoys working as part of a small team.
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- A polite and friendly manner
- Lots of initiative
- A positive attitude
- The ability to think on your feet
- The want to learn new skills
Requirements:
- Excellent communication skills
- Creative thinking skills
- Self-starter
- Good team player
- The patience and ability to engage customer in conversation
- Good sales ability
- Working knowledge of relevant software
- Excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills
- The ability to handle rejection and stress in soliciting customers
- The ability to learn about products and services and describe/explain them to prospects
Package:
- Salary: £18,000 – £19,000 per annum + Commission
- Holiday 28 days inclusive of bank holidays
- Extra birthday day holiday
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of: Sales Officer, Business Development Executive, Sales Coordinator, Business Development Officer, Internal Sales Officer, Direct Sales, Key Sales, Business Developer, Business Plan, Business Development, Sales Development, Business Development Lead, Business Development, Sales, Lead Generation, New Client Sales, B2B, Account Director, Key Account Manager, Business Development Lead will also be considered for this role.
