Salary & Benefits:
  • £35,000 to £40,000 negotiable, depending on experience
  • Profit sharing scheme
  • Excellent company pension scheme
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
 
Hours: 8.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch
Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
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Company Description: A leading distributor of data networking products. The business supplies into the electrical wholesale marketplace, data infrastructure installers and industrial end users and are part of a significant, privately owned group of companies, employing over 2,000 people throughout the UK.
 
Role:
  • Focus on pro-actively building customer relationships and business levels and working within a defined target list of new and existing customers
  • Working on groups of customers that already have group agreements in place and proactively calling new and dormant customers
  • Selling existing products to customers that are already purchasing from an alternative source
  • Forecasting, sales planning and ultimately winning new business
  • Building product and brand awareness with customers
  • Some external customer meetings may be necessary but not common
 
 
Person & Skills Required:
  • Significant telephone sales experience, ideally in the data networking and/or electrical wholesale markets but not essential
  • Full product and market training will be provided, but it would be advantageous to have experience of the UK Electrical Wholesale market and the market dynamics that operate within
  • Experience of managing your own customer base with the potential to develop into more wider functions within the business management team and supporting the General Manager
  • Experienced in using CRM systems
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • A positive, hardworking, can-do attitude with the ability to work under pressure
  • Dynamic with a good sense of humour and a passion for achievement and success
  • Customer service focused approach
  • Experienced in Microsoft Suite (Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Teams)
  • Attention to detail and organised
  • Team player
  • This role will require a hard-working and likeable individual, who will grow relationships and offer exceptional levels of customer service to their diverse customer base