Account Manager

The Role: Account Manager

The Hours: Monday-Friday 08:45am – 17:30pm

Location: Ashington

Salary: £28,000 - £32,000

My client is currently seeking a hardworking team player with good people skills and a keen interest in sales to join our vibrant sales team based in Ashington, West Sussex.

The ideal candidate will be eager to learn, excited to be involved in an ever-growing business and passionate in providing excellent service to our clients in order to exceed targets. A positive attitude and good attention to detail are a must, along with the ability to contribute to a team as needed and the drive to develop new as well as existing accounts.

Job role

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients
• Achieve and exceed sales targets
• Manage a portfolio of accounts day to day
• Generate and maintain a credible forecast for accounts in your region, regularly updating Senior Management
• Manage and update the CRM, ensuring all opportunities are kept up to date
• Generate sales through proactively seeking opportunities with new customers, existing accounts, and non-spending accounts
• Service all customers to a high standard and meet our Service Level agreements
• Achieve and update key performance indicators
• Manage a good working relationship with your team both internally and externally
• Communicate clearly

Candidate requirements:

• Good attention to detail
• An understanding of basic costing and sales principles
• The ability to build new and existing relationships
• A confident, positive, and determined approach
• Strong professional communicational skills, oral and written
• To enjoy working with people
• A keen interest in learning and sales
• Computer literacy - Microsoft Office, CRM package
• Good time keeping

Benefits

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Wellness programme