£35K/yr to £40K/yr
Calderdale, England
Permanent, Variable

Graduate Field Sales Specialist

Posted by Graduate Recruitment Bureau.

Company

A market-leading specialist packaging company in the UK with a £20m turnover. They are the highest quality provider in their market in UK. Clients include DHL, Kelloggs, P&G, BT and Camelot.

The role

  • Field based sales role, covering clients across the UK.
  • Variety of new business prospecting, following inbound leads and contacting warm or dormant clients across a variety of industries.
  • You will be given some existing clients to manage, however you will also have a target of £100k in new business revenue so will be looking to grow your client base.
  • At the beginning, more time will be spent in the office for training, once up and running more likely to be around one day per week to work on your post-sales admin.
  • Visiting up to 4 clients per day, including high value priority clients who you will meet with no a regular basis to look after their account.
  • There will be plenty of travel including overnight stays.
  • Training will include external courses and shadowing two highly successful directors.

Package

  • £25k-30k base salary to start with and likely first year OTE of £40k. The successful candidate will double their base salary in 5 years. Two graduates that have been in the business for around 10 years are earning £65k + £45k in bonus.
  • Company car, most likely a VW Passat or Audi - all fuel expensed.
  • Phone and laptop.
  • Annual discretionary bonus.
  • Expenses account.

Profile

  • Driving license and confident with motorway driving.
  • Self motivated and driven to succeed.
  • Ability to think on feet and deal with difficult customers.
  • Experience in face-to-face sales or customer service settings.
  • Based no further than 1 hour from the office in West Yorkshire.