Sales and Marketing Executive

Location: Christchurch with flexible working

Salary: £26k-£30k DOE + commission

Hours: 8.30am 5pm Mon-Fri

Benefits:Discretionary Bonus Scheme

• Pension - 5% Employer and 5% Employee contributions
• Life Assurance
• Holidays - 33 days holiday including Bank Holidays per year. Option to buy up to 5 days additional days holiday, on top of your yearly entitlement
• Long Service Awards
• Share Scheme
• Cycle 2 Work
• Social events throughout the year
• Free parking

Aspire Jobs are delighted to be working exclusively with our client who are a well-established company based in Christchurch. They are now recruiting for a Sales and Marketing Executive to join their busy team on a 1-year fixed term contract. Whilst this is to cover maternity leave for the right person there could be the potential of a permanent role (although this isnt guaranteed).

The role of Sales and Marketing Executive could suit a graduate who is looking for their 1st role or person with exciting marketing ideas looking to move into a sales arena.You wont be frightened of picking up the phone to target customers to arrange appointments for the sales team.These calls will be to luxury brands and will give you great exposure to some big, internationally known prestigious brands so service and quality expectations will be huge.

You will help open doors and qualify/generate new business leads but you will also generate some new marketing ideas and generate marketing collateral.You will also manage the company LI page and keep that updated.

As part of your role, you will help send out sample packs to potential big brand buyers and then be confident in picking up the phone to chase once those samples have been sent.

There is probably a 50/50 split between follow up sales calls and generating marketing ideas.This is all about direct marketing and wont be a scattergun approach.It will be targeted and will see you working with the Directors and the business to work with their ideas of where the business goes next.This is NOT a social media marketing role and wont have a huge amount of design work included.

Some events will be held inhouse for potential buyers to visit site so you must be a great communicator over the phone, face to face and on email.

The successful Sales and Marketing Executive will

• Be driven and passionate
• Be tenacious and resilient
• Be confident in picking up the phone to arrange appointments
• Possibly attend pitches with the BD Director in London
• Have energy
• Have an allegiance to luxury retail brands
• Good IT skills inc experience of using a CRM system
• An understanding of new business sales process
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organisational, time management and planning skills
• Be proactive and results drive as well as self-motivated

Job Duties

Sales & Lead Generation:

Qualify and generate new business leads and meetings for the sales team across a global target base
Follow up on leads from calls, emails, store visits, ensuring prompt actions
Engage with potential customers, confidently discussing their clients suite of services

Marketing & Content Support:

Conduct industry and trend research to inform marketing materials
Assist in the creation of compelling pitch decks and proposals
Support in the creation of marketing campaigns
Contribute to the development and publication of basic content for our marketing channels

CRM & Data Management:
Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in their CRM
Conduct market research to identify potential business opportunities
Collation of competitor analysis