Internal Business Development

We are currently looking to speak to sales professionals with proven success to join our client who are an innovative market leader in the food safety industry.

Responsibilities

• Build new relationships with prospective clients
• Maintain consistent contact with existing clients
• Full ownership of 360 sales cycle
• Conduct client consultations
• Delivering live product demonstrations
• Manage sales pipeline
• Analyze market and establish competitive advantages
• Track metrics to ensure targets are hit
• Setting up meetings/web demos in order to pitch products and services, either in person or virtually
• Handling and responding to inbound leads
• Generating proposals and contracts for approval
• Providing cover for e-commerce sales team
• Other responsibilities relevant to the purpose of the role as required by the line manager

The Ideal Candidate:

• 1+ years sales or account management experience
• Experience in managing the full sales cycle, including deal closing Demonstrated sales success
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• CRM experience is preferred
• Experience of selling products or services to the food manufacturing or hospitality sector(desirable but not essential)
• Computer literate in relevant packages (MS Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, CRM Systems)
• A team-player attitude with a strong desire to help improve internal processes beyond just your day-to-day tasks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Effective sales pitching skills with the ability to adapt to different clients
• Highly organised
• Ability to understand multiple industries and associate different products and services to suit