Sales Executive

Role: Sales Executive

Location: Reading

Type: Permanent

Start date: As soon as possible

Are you focused, self-motivated and do you have a passion for sales and new business acquisition? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

This role offers great variety in the working day, dealing on all levels with a diverse range of customers. Besides pro-actively contacting potential new clients over the phone you will focus on developing existing relationships and ensuring that clients are effectively maintained.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Generate leads by cold calling prospective clients and following up marketing campaigns
• Full sales lifecycle management: lead sourcing to account management
• Producing quotations and proposals for all business lines
• Identify opportunities for campaigns that will lead to an increase in sales
• Forecast sales targets, submit monthly progress reports and ensure that the data is accurately entered and managed within the company’s CRM system

Experience and Skills required

• At least 2 years sales experience selling IT services
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable with prospecting and cold calling
• Ability to create, negotiate and manage long term relationships
• Ability to identify client issues/needs and translate into compelling solutions to address clients requirements
• Positive can-do attitude / self-starter
• Degree level educated, preferably in business / management
• Ideally from a Service Management / IT Services background

To Apply

Please send your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role to g.huisman@pinkacademy.nl. Interviews will take place immediately.

About Pink Elephant

Pink Elephant is an international knowledge leader in the field of business innovation and business change. With advisory and IT services, Pink Elephant draws the best out of its clients, by translating knowledge and creativity of the people in these organisations into tangible results. Pink Elephant operates in over 20 countries and provides business and management consultancy and other services, such as Enterprise App Services, IT Services and Education Services.