Junior Account Manager

This Junior Account Manager role is an exciting opportunity to join a leading player in the educational supplies sector that has a been at the forefront of the industry for over 50 years. They now have the need to build out their sales team across the south of England, predominantly across the Southeast.
With a client base that exceeds 2,000 across London and the Southeast already, the vision over the next two years is to grow through winning new clients and expanding current customer value with a range of over 15,000 products.
This opportunity will focus on new business activity and the relationship management of tier three accounts. Based from the newly renovated offices in Colchester, you will be contacting new schools to bring them through the on-boarding process. You will also have a bank of schools to account manage, where upselling and cross-selling opportunities need to be flushed out through extensive relationship building.
Being competitively priced and supported heavily through marketing and a customer services team, you will have every opportunity to maximize your earning potential and focus on account growth through strategic and sophisticated relationship building and selling techniques that will be taught to you.
This is not a call centre environment, this is a role that would suit someone who is about building sustainable relationships effectively, being able to sell a value proposition that leads to new business opportunities and ensure high level of customer retention.
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The Role
- Proactively sourcing new business within your dedicated sales territory
- Building and maintaining accounts and relationships to promote longevity in relationship
- Effectively selling the whole range of products
- Delivering excellent customer service and building rapport
- Self-planning your days efficiently to enable best use of your time throughout each day
- Working closely with a Senior Account Manager to drive divisional growth
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Required Experience
- Up to and around 1 years' experience working within a face paced targeted sales environment
- Highly motivated, target driven individual with strong business acumen
- Ability to self-generate new business from cold prospects, build and maintain relationships with existing customers
- The confidence to take ownership of the success of your sales territory
- The ability to engage and build excellent rapport with your customers over the telephone and face to face
- Ability to drive - You must have a Driving Licence with no more than 6 points
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The Package
- Attractive salary of up to £25,000, plus generous commission plan paying an additional £15,000
- Your own dedicated sales territory with a mix of prospects and existing customers
- Sales Induction Programme when you join to ensure you are set up with the knowledge and tools to succeed
- Career progression opportunities - Key Account Manager, Senior Business Development Manager
- Ongoing support and coaching from both internal and external sources, free access to LinkedIn Learning
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