Area Sales Account Manager

Job Description

• You will be directly reporting to the Managing Director on a weekly basis to discuss your activities

• Weekly reports to be submitted to the Managing Director to show your sales activities for the week

• Promote company image and product brand into the UK Market

• Prospecting and developing new business with warm & cold calls alongside marketing

• Develop new leads and utilise the company system to track activity and new contacts

• Daily contact via phone and email with existing and potential customers to quote business and pro-actively promote the company’s product

• Manage customers’ expectations by being their main point of contact

• Work in conjunction with the other sales reps to grow business

• Evaluate customer needs to determine appropriate products or alternatives to meet job or project requirements

• Account management of clients, to be in regular contact with your own client base and to be able to handle any direct customer complaints

• Maintain ongoing rapport with your own client base, including ensuring that all information for your clients is accurate and can be fed back to our Business Administrators

• Providing quotation to customers

• Regularly visit customers in specific marketplaces to solidify relationships and/or develop new business

• Undertaking overnight stays to ensure current clients and new businesses are visited

• Driving results through strategic planning ensuring a high standard of Customer Care, service and after-sales support

• Strictly implement all company rules and regulations

Skills and Experience

• Be self-motivated and to have the ability to work independently with little supervision

• Have a proven track in sales in the Electrical Industry (desirable)

• Experience working in the Electrical industry

• A minimum of 3 years solid experience of being a Sales Representative and able to demonstrate where you have exceeded targets

• A minimum of 3 years solid experience within a Business Development role (desirable)

• Experience working within project development (desirable)

• Experience within Account Management, Sales and Marketing

• Be able to work to tight deadlines

• Be patient and tactful with customers when negotiating

• Ability to deliver up-to-date market information such as competitor pricing, product development trends and changes to regulations

• Have exceptional attention to detail

• Proficient in using Microsoft Office Packages (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)

• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Salary:

• £30,000.00-£40,000.00 DOE

• Car allowance of £600 per month

Working Hours:

• Monday to Friday, 8.30am – 5pm (flexibility required with travelling/commute times)

Benefits:

• Company laptop

• Company mobile phone

• Company pension

• Quarterly and yearly bonuses (subject to individual and company performance)

• Paid expenses

Location:

• South London and South East England Area, managing areas from Kent to Oxfordshire