Sales Associate

Are you a Sales/Customer Service professional looking for a career change into Sales or to grow your sales career? (full product training will be provided) Do you enjoy winning new business and building long standing relationships with customers?
Would you be eager to join an award-winning manufacturing business with a long-standing British engineering legacy, technical expertise, and friendly, passionate customer care ethos?
We're currently looking for an ambitious Sales Associate to join a leading UK manufacturer and supplier of laboratory equipment and filling solutions. Working remotely or in the office from the company's Haywards Heath HQ, you would play a key role as the company continues to enjoy rapid growth.
Offering an attractive salary of £27,000 up to £30,000 plus benefits including bonus (uncapped), annual pay review and performance related bonus, company pension contribution, optional private healthcare plan, plus company phone and laptop, as well as fantastic opportunities for career progression.
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The Role
As Sales Associate you would work in a fast paced but friendly environment, utilising your entrepreneurial approach and working independently whilst being guided and supported by senior colleagues. Responsibilities will include…
- Professionally communicating and partnering with customers to understand their business needs and objectives
- Implementing superb customer service with the aim to build excellent, long-lasting customer relationships (typically selling to pharma, cosmetic, food companies and other industries)
- Achieving/exceeding ambitious sales targets, demonstrating a hunter mentality
- Effectively communicating the technical value proposition via phone, conference calls, and email
- Partnering with the internal sales department to prepare and present winning quotations and sales proposals
- Coordinating with prospects/customers to arrange / prepare for product demonstrations
- Updating CRM on a regular basis, maintaining high quality of information
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The Candidate
You will need to demonstrate a results-driven winning mentality alongside a willingness to continually develop sales, listening, negotiation, and presentation skills. Proven experience in sales/customer services environment is required, ideally with the ability to generate new business, handling objections confidently and effectively, plus build and maintain relationships and build rapport with prospects over the telephone or email. You'll need to be…
- Target driven, bright and confident, and highly motivated
- A quick thinker and a team player, with excellent communication skill
- Strong fact finding and questioning skills
- A self-starter with lots of enthusiasm who love working as part of a team
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The Company
An award-winning UK manufacturer and supplier of packing machinery and equipment, delivering a comprehensive portfolio of innovative solutions to our global customer base. You would be joining a highly successful family owned business, where staff work hard and encouraged to excel.
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Interested? If you think you're right for this Sales Associate role, then click the 'Apply Now' button, send us your CV and we'll consider you for the first round of interviews.Coburg Banks Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.