Telemarketer

**Location**:Birmingham, B1
- **Salary**:£26,000-28,000 (depending on experience)
- **Company overview**: Buckt is the UK’s only tickets and activities subscription service. Every month Buckt subscribers receive five mystery tickets to top attractions and activities in their region. This award winning business operates across London, the Midlands and North West England and is the first of its kind in the world.

**What you will be doing**

We are looking for an excellent communicator and well-organised individual to join our expanding team and help us grow the business.

With this in mind, we are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, in particular over the phone. They will need to be able to make cold calls, and build relationships very quickly. Although they will not be ‘selling a product’ (as we purchase tickets), they will need to sell the idea of the business and be able to negotiate better prices.

The role is a fantastic opportunity for someone to:

- Be part of an innovative business making waves in the industry
- Become an integral part of the management structure of the business
- Work with some of the best businesses within the leisure industry
- Get the opportunity to complete as many Buckt activities as you want

**Key responsibilities**

As Telesales Executive/Telemarketer you will primarily be responsible for managing and growing our partnerships with activity providers and securing the activities which will be provided to our subscribers. This entails:

- Contacting activity providers (by phone and in writing) and identifying whether they wish to be included in future ticket distributions to our members
- Negotiating and closing deals with them
- Building and maintaining relationships with activity providers ensuring they’re as enthused by Buckt as our subscribers
- Keeping our CRM system updated
- Coordinating other members of the team including freelancers and part-time workers
- Identifying the strategy of the business and executing it alongside the rest of the Buckt team
- Fulfilling admin tasks directly linked to your role
- Providing direct assistance to our CEO and Founder, and our Head of Partnerships

**The Telesales Executive/Telemarketer should be awesome at**
- Communicating confidently with a variety of stakeholders, both verbally and in writing
- Being organised - can manage your own time and work independently towards set goals and deadlines
- Maturity and professionalism - the individual will play a key management role within the company
- Working diligently to fulfil set tasks and objectives
- Using initiative when and where needed and finding solutions to problems and challenges
- Confident - able to negotiate deals with activity providers

**Education**

A level experience is desired; however we are extremely keen to hear from you if you have relevant career experience (see below).

**Work experience**
- Corporate sales
- Telesales executive
- Cold-calling/telephone marketing
- Partnership management/external relations management
- Account Manager
- Personal assistant/office manager

If you do not have experience in one of these areas, but feel that you meet the requirements of the role in other ways, we are still keen to hear from you.

**More about us**
- “Buckt is the UK’s only tickets and activities subscription service. Every month subscribers get 5 mystery tickets to top attractions in their region._
- From cinema tickets to sumo suit wrestling, restaurants to rage rooms, each box is crafted by our expert team and includes an eclectic mix of the brilliant and bizarre, as well as the tried and tested._
- We’re an award winning subscription business currently operating across London, the Midlands, the North West and the South West with partnerships with over 500 top activity providers._
- Step out of your comfort zone, explore your region like never before, and take on a selection of exciting activities with a Buckt subscription.”_

Work hybrid model.
- Temporarily due to COVID-19

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Flexible Language Requirement:

- English not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Birmingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- cold calling: 2 years (required)
- managing client relationships: 2 years (required)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Birmingham