Graduate Field Sales Specialist

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.