Trainee Sales Representative

• Full training provided from a highly experienced mentor
• Work from home with a company car and cover a sales region
• Selling fun and functional garden and leisure products

Job Description:

• Base salary £26,000 plus performance based bonus, company car, mobile and laptop.
• If you have the right personality, business sense and communication skills this is a fantastic opportunity to get into a field sales role and be trained by a highly experienced mentor.
• Working from home you will cover a sales region including East Anglia, Northants, Leicestershire, Bucks, Beds, Herts and Essex.
• Your customers will include garden centres, gift stores and ecommerce businesses where you will tasked with visiting regularly to build relationships, understand needs and present products that will sell through.
• As your experience grows you will become adept at time management, journey planning, questioning techniques, selling benefits, negotiation and closing. You will an annual salary review that reflects your progress and a bonus scheme that will fully reward your achievements and behaviours.

About the Company:

• You will be working for a well established supplier of gardening tools, wildlife habitats and decorative garden products.
• Within a small and committed team you will enjoy a strong team spirit where everyone matters and use your personality to project that high levels of customer service that this company is known for.

Key Skills/Experience Required:

Previous field sales experience is not essential but we are looking for a special person with the potential to excel in this role. You will need to have:

• At least 2 years of commercial experience in an environment that included sales, customer service and communication. This could be in field sales, merchandising, retail, telesales, estate agency, recruitment or customer services.
• High energy levels, determination and a hunger to be successful.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Social confidence and the ability to build rapport with everyone you meet.
• High levels of IT competence and comfortable using all Microsoft Office packages.
• A full driving licence with no more than 3 points.

Salary/Benefits Information:

• You will receive a basic salary of £26,000, a fully expensed company car, mobile, laptop and all of the tools and support that you need to perform this role from home.
• Following the competition of your probation period you will join the company bonus scheme that rewards both sales activities and sales achievements.

Contact: Nick Hester

Job Reference: NH/86946

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In the meantime, we would like to thank you for your interest in Cavendish Maine.