Sales Executive Lamberhurst

Job Title:
Outbound Sales Executive
£24k - £28k
Monday - Friday: 08:30 - 17:30
Job Purpose:
To prospect and generate new business by selling all of the benefits of the Speedy Freight service to new customers in an enthusiastic, motivated and passionate manner.
The highly targeted role will assist and arrange new meeting bookings for the local Business Development Manager by being responsible for making out bound sales calls, updating CRM, generating new business leads and delivering a high service lead approach.
Main Responsibilities and Objectives:
Responsibilities & Objectives
- Prospect and generate own leads through an existing database of businesses/research and build a pipeline of potential new business utilising the company CRM.
- Work and develop an existing database of prospects to win new business.
- Update CRM system with accurate data and activity
- Discuss service offering with prospects to generate interest
- Close new business over the phone
- Accurately price customer requirements
- Work closely with a Business Development Manager to bring on new customers
- Schedule appointments for Business Development Manager to meet prospective customers.
- Constantly communicate with Business Development Manager to ensure KPI targets achieved and maintained.
- Prepare weekly figures to report
- Communicate effectively and professionally with all levels of staff and clients.
Statutory Duties
- Co-operate with your employer to enable any legal obligations to be complied with.
- Do not recklessly interfere with anything provided by the employer or others in the interests of health, safety or welfare.
- Bring to the attention of the Company Health and Safety Manager any perceived short comings in health and safety arrangements, situations or processes that you consider to be serious or which may present danger to you or others.
- Do not undertake or request others to undertake any works for which you/they do not hold the required competency or authority to undertake.
Interfaces
Internal
- Liaise with Lead Generator, Business Development Manager, Branch Manager, Franchise Support Team, Directors, their direct reports and Employees at all levels within the Company, compliance to HSE legislation and Company objectives.
External
- Customers
- Suppliers / Drivers
- Contractors
Qualifications:
Core
- IT Literate including Microsoft, word, excel and outlook.
- Written, oral English and Mathematics to GCSE standard
Desirable
- Excel / PowerPoint presentations skills.
**Experience**:

- Good work ethic and hungry to learn and develop themselves more
- Experience working in a proactive sales or cold calling role
- Experience of generating own sales leads
- Experience of working towards and hitting targets & KPI's
- Good administration and organisation skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Influencing and negotiations
- Strong organisational skills with ability to manage conflicting priorities
- Articulate with a confident manner
- Smart and professional attitude
Performance Management Responsibilities:
The areas of responsibilities and objectives (above) are to be monitored on via the appraisal process and internal meetings.
Technical Skills:

- IT Literate including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook (PowerPoint, Access, Visio or similar preferable.)
Business Skills:

- Professional and confident manner
- Excellent Communicator
- Good customer service skills
- Ability to work within a team and under own initiative
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Good literacy and numeracy skills
- Report writing