An international group, selling into the food, environmental and agricultural markets across the UK & Europe requires a proactive Internal Sales Executive to maximise their growth potential. If you are not afraid of picking up the phone to establish new relationships in the food processing industries, we would be delighted to hear from you.
 
BASIC SALARY: £35,000 - £45,000
 
BENEFITS:
· 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
· Bonus/Commission scheme
· Pension contribution
· Laptop & mobile phone
 
LOCATION: This is a hybrid role based in Corby.
 
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Northampton, Market Harborough, Peterborough, Kettering, Leicester
 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Internal Sales Executive, Internal Sales - Food Industry
 
As our Internal Sales Executive, you will be reporting to our Area Sales Director, and predominantly selling to Quality, Technical and Process improvement type people. We are a small team in the UK with an established customer base and desire for growth. Our group have over 200 colleagues across Europe as well as 3 manufacturing sites in France and Italy. This is a technical sales role and comes with a high level of autonomy.
 
Your main responsibilities will be:
· Working closely with our marketing team to identify key players and source new sales opportunities through inbound lead qualification.
· Outbound cold calls and emails by data (i.e. LinkedIn) and support the sales team with customer mapping activities.
· Routing qualified leads and opportunities to the appropriate sales executives for further development and closure.
· Maintaining and expanding your database of prospects and updating the CRM (SalesForce) accordingly.
· Interacting with customers after sales concerning lead times for customer and any after sale services required.
 
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Internal Sales Executive, Internal Sales - Food Industry
 
Ideally, you’ll have worked within the food industry in a sales environment although we’re pretty open to your background. What’s most important to us is you’ll be self-motivated, with great communication skills.
 
You must also:
· Be proficient with Microsoft Office.
· Have proven success within a telesales environment and experience of making dozens of dials per day.
· Possess excellent interpersonal skills as well as written and verbal skills at all levels.
 
THE COMPANY:
 
We are a global leader in scientific instrumentation, focused primarily on analysing critical quality parameters in the food, agricultural, industrial and environmental industries. We provide a comprehensive range of products and services to uniquely solve our customers’ problems.
 
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Internal Sales Executive, Sales Executive, Field Sales, Telesales, Account Handler, Business Development Executive, New Business, Business Development - OEM Sales, Technical Solutions, Food, Agriculture
 
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.
 
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
 
REF: SM17902, Wallace Hind Selection