Account Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Hampshire, Southampton
- Salary
- £25000 - £30000 per annum + 20% bonus
- Closing date
- 28 Mar 2018
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
My client are looking for an ambitious, hungry Account Manager to join their growing sales team.
Client Details
My Client, based in Southampton, are a market leading fuels and lubricants business that pride themselves on providing the customers with the best possible service.
Working across 8 different business sectors, including Automotive, Industrial, Racing, Commercial and Heating, and holding a substantial share of the fuels market they are a very well known name.
With a very ambitious leadership team my client have exciting plans for 2018. With further recruits being added to the sales team and excellent training programmes in place 2018 will be a very exciting year!
The successful sales person will be given excellent training, support and development opportunities. With a culture that encourages progression and development, this is an excellent opportunity for the successful person to grow a career.
Description
The successful Account Manager:
- Reporting to the Fuel Sales Manager, this key member of the sales team will be responsible for the development and management of an existing customer portfolio ensuring customer needs are serviced to the highest standards.
- Upselling and cross-selling to the existing account portfolio
- You will share the responsibility with other sales team members for the management of incoming phone calls across the southern region of their distribution area.
- Full P&L responsibility and accountability.
- The development and fostering of a team culture and ethos will be everyone's responsibility and relationships with other internal sales, external sales and key account manager colleagues will be critical.
- To work with the other members of the sales team to achieve monthly sales targets.
Profile
The successful Account Manager:
- Previous account management / sales experience
- Alternatively a graduate looking to move into an account manager role
- Hungry, ambition and desire to grow a career
- Driven and hungry for success
- Commutable to Southampton on a daily basis
- Effective communicator who pro-actively develops customer and internal relationships
- High level of desire to achieve goals /targets perform in a pressurised environment
- Keenness to learn and develop skill and core competencies is required
- Good IT skills, essential to have knowledge of Microsoft programmes including Outlook, excel, Word, and able to use Microsoft CRM systems or similar to a high degree
- Strong financial acumen and ability to analyse financial data
- Team player who is both supportive and approachable
- Full UK driving licence
Job Offer
£25,000 - £30,000 Basic Salary
20% bonus
Pension
Other Company benefits
Excellent Progression opportunities
Company
Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.
Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!
Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us
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