Sales Executive

Are you an experienced External Field Sales Executive with background in Building Materials?

Would you welcome the opportunity to cover the Leeds area?

Jewson are recruiting for an External Field Sales Executive; a car licence is essential for this role.

First and foremost, we always want to recruit great people that really understand our values and ways of working.

Experience within our industry is not essential, we are open considering Sales professionals from any industry, we are committed to providing you with the full tools and support required to carry out your role within Jewson.

So if you have a passion for delivering great customer service, always look to put the customer first; can build trust and are able to proactively seek out solutions that are right for our customers, then you are likely to be a great fit!

As this role has a strong focus on customer service, we are looking for someone who loves to build relationships with Customers both face to face and over the phone.

Role Purpose

To assist the Leeds Branches in the acquisition of new accounts, development

of existing accounts and to ensure that any lapsed or dormant accounts are

re-activated; working with all functions to develop and leverage the scale

of the Business.

Duties:

Find and develop new business via cold calling, lead follow ups, and

general customer interaction.

Support customers with the on-boarding of their new account, ensuring

that they start and continue to spend.

Works with the branch teams on agreeing and setting new terms of trade

for all accounts

Target dormant and lapsed accounts to reactivate them

Develop trust relationships with a portfolio of customers to maintain and

improve profitability

Simplify the customer experience by ensuring close management of all

owned accounts

Acquire a thorough understanding of customer needs and requirements,

expanding relationships by continuously proposing solutions that meet

the customer's needs

Work with all functions and branch teams to ensure that all opportunities

are leveraged

What's in it for you?

• Competitive Basic Salary
• Company Car Allowance
• Performance Related Bonus
• Retirement Savings Plan (Pension) - with Legal & General
• Life Assurance - From your first day of employment with us you are automatically covered for a lump-sum death in service benefit of 2 x your basic salary. However, if you join the STARK Building Materials Retirement Savings Plan (including if you are automatically enrolled) and contribute a minimum of 4% of your Pensionable Earnings, your lump sum death in service benefit will be increased to 4 x your Pensionable Earnings.
• WorkPerks - A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway
• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App (Access to a digital GP, second medical opinions, Mental Health consultation, bereavement service, nutritional consultation)
• Voluntary company benefits such as Car Salary Sacrifice scheme with VWFS, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare, Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Discount
• Refer a Friend scheme
• Wellbeing Centre via WorkPerks
• New Reward and Recognition programme - launching soon!
• 34 days holiday per year

Required Skills and Experience

• Previous B2B Field sales experience ideally gained a building material supply firm
• Negotiation and close deals quickly
• Resilience and working at pace
• Self-motivated and goal orientated
• Great customer focus and desire to do your absolute best to get the best outcomes
• Ability to build rapport and develop good understanding of your portfolio to secure future projects.
• Pro active
• Well organised and priorities
• Great attention to detail
• Efficiently use IT equipment and have a strong telephone presence.

About us

At Jewson, we're proud to be part of STARK Building Materials UK and dedicated to providing top-quality products and exceptional service to our customers. We're a friendly and collaborative team, passionate about what we do and committed to doing it well.

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and join a team that is dedicated to providing great service, we want to hear from you. Apply today!