Proactive Telephone Sales Executive

Salary: £25,000 to £30,000 negotiable, depending on experience plus profit sharing scheme & contributory pension scheme
Job Title: Proactive Telephone Sales Executive
Location: Hayes, Middlesex
Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday

Company Description:
A well established Nationwide Electrical Distributor looking to expand their centre in Hayes. The business provides a wide range of products to customers, from their busy trade counter and by daily delivery service.
Person:
You must be confident, reliable and punctual, be self-motivated and resilient in nature.
You must have a proven track record of working in customer service, cold calling experience, be dynamic with a good sense of humour and a passion for achievement and success.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Proactively making outgoing telephone calls to prospective customers
  • Aggressively targeting new and dormant accounts to improve sales and margin performance along with actively promoting the company and their products and services
  • Proactively seeking new business opportunities with new customers in the Facilities Management, retail, large and small contractors and commercial businesses in the London and surrounding areas
  • Developing strategies for increasing existing, new business and dormant accounts
  • Working closely with the sales team, producing timely and accurate customer quotations
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Essential Skills:
  • Excellent communicator with the ability to engage and quickly build rapport
  • Excellent planning and research ability
  • Resilience
  • Good standard of English & Maths
  • Full driving license as travelling will be required
  • Previous experience in a proactive telesales role
  • Computer literate and the ability to use Microsoft Office
  • An interest in the Electrical Wholesale industry and experience of working in a similar environment would be an advantage but not essential as full training will be given