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Sales Executive - St Albans - Freight Forwarding

Corrigan Bentley
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 5 days
Location

St. Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 6JZ, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position involves developing new business and managing existing client relationships within a sales team environment.
  • Candidates should have essential business-to-business sales and telesales experience, while freight forwarding experience is preferred but not mandatory.
  • Key responsibilities include generating freight quotations, managing the sales process, and ensuring timely follow-ups to maximize conversion rates.
  • The role requires strong negotiation skills, key account management experience, and proficiency in administrative tasks and IT applications like Microsoft Office.
  • The salary for this position is competitive, and candidates are expected to have a minimum of two years of relevant experience.

Working in a team of other sales and internal sales staff the successful candidate will

pro-actively develop new business and build and nurture existing client relationships to

maximise the potential.

- New business development through telesales & field sales

- Key Account Management

- Generating & Calculating Freight quotations / tender documents

- Drafting and sending appropriate sales correspondence

- Follow up calls

- Managing sales process through to closure

- Developing long lasting relationships with new clients

- Supporting the sales team in their sales efforts

- Managing the existing and new client quotes

- Ensuring that the quotes are completed promptly and are followed up to

maximise conversion

Experience / skills required

路 Freight forwarding experience would be ideal but not essential.

路 Business to business Sales experience essential

路 Telesales experience essential.

路 Customer service or Operations experience.

路 Proven success of handling and calculating RFQ鈥檚 and tender submissions.

路 Experience of negotiating with clients and or suppliers.

路 Key account management experience with proven success of developing

relationships.

路 Experience of calculating KPI reports.

路 Experience of face to face client and supplier meeting.

路 Good administrative skills.

路 Good numerical skills.

路 Good IT skills (Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed鈥檚 services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed鈥檚 Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.