Sales Executives / Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Manchester for experienced and ambitious Sales Executives/Manager to join a successful and growing technology company. Earning £18,000 to £30,000, dependent on experience, the successful Sales Executives/Manager will be based in the award-winning business’ vibrant office in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.

The company, which Forbes magazine recently dubbed “the uber of recruitment” is keen to see applications from both Sales Executives and more experienced Sales Managers as it grows its outbound sales team to fuel growth in 2017. Sales Executives will receive fresh leads daily, and also proactively seek new business opportunities using social media, while the Sales Manager will lead the team day-to-day, but still actively win new business in a sales/BD role. The successful Sales Executives’/Manager’s core responsibilities will include:

• Actively following-up daily leads to introduce companies to company’s products/service
• Identifying prospective customers and organising calls/online demos with them
• Building and managing a pipeline of sales activity, from outreach to closed sale
• Updating the company’s sales CRM, and maintaining notes, admin, etc
• Working towards a company sales monthly and quarterly sales targets
• Liaising with the marketing team to generate sales and marketing material
• Working with the Account Management team to handover new customers

The successful Sales Executives/Manager will have proven success in a sales or recruitment business environment (recruitment experience and/or knowledge of the recruitment industry would be an advantage). In addition, you will possess the following skills and experience:

• Proven and demonstrable track record within a sales environment, preferably B2B
• Confident, articulate, with professional telephone manner
• Able to communicate easily via email and social media
• Determined and tenacious approach, with ambition to develop professionally
• Interest in technology, and technology businesses/start-ups, etc
• Understanding of the recruitment agency market is desirable although not essential
• Self-motivated go-getter that makes s*** happen

If you have a proven history in sales or recruitment and are interested in these exciting sales roles, please apply by submitting your CV along with cover letter that explains why you believe you are suitable for the position. Please note, we will not consider applicants that don’t take the time to write a cover letter. Successful applicants will be invited to an interview in Manchester in January.  

The company: Launched in 2011, and acclaimed as one of Manchester’s, and the UK’s, best tech startups (that is now scaling up) the successful candidates will join an exciting, investment-backed, growing business that, through innovative thinking and products, is disrupting one of the world’s largest industries – recruitment.