Location: Christchurch with flexible working
Salary: £26k-£30k DOE + commission
Hours: 8.30am – 5pm Mon-Fri
Benefits:
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Pension - 5% Employer and 5% Employee contributions
• Life Assurance
• Holidays - 33 days holiday including Bank Holidays per year. Option to buy up to 5 days additional days holiday, on top of your yearly entitlement
• Long Service Awards
• Share Scheme
• Cycle 2 Work
• Social events throughout the year
• Free parking
Aspire Jobs are delighted to be working exclusively with our client who are a well-established company based in Christchurch. They are now recruiting for a Sales and Marketing Executive to join their busy team on a 1-year fixed term contract. Whilst this is to cover maternity leave for the right person there could be the potential of a permanent role (although this is not guaranteed).
PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a social media marketing role and will not have a huge amount of design work included.
Requirements of the successful Sales and Marketing Executive:
• Could suit a graduate looking for their 1st role.
• Could suit a person with exciting marketing ideas looking to move into a sales arena.
• Confident picking up the phone to target customers to arrange appointments for the sales team.
• Help open doors and qualify/generate new business leads.
• Generate some new marketing ideas and generate marketing collateral.
• Manage the company LinkedIn page and keep that updated.
• Be driven and passionate.
• Be tenacious and resilient.
• Possibly attend pitches with the BD Director in London.
• Have energy.
• Have an allegiance to luxury retail brands.
• Good IT skills inc experience of using a CRM system.
• An understanding of new business sales process.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational, time management and planning skills.
• Be proactive and results drive as well as self-motivated.
• Some events will be held inhouse for potential buyers to visit site so you must be a great communicator over the phone, face to face and on email.
Responsibilities of the Sales and Marketing Executive:
• Help send out sample packs to potential big brand buyers.
• Be confident in picking up the phone to chase once those samples have been sent.
• Probably a 50/50 split between follow up sales calls and generating marketing ideas.
• This is all about direct marketing and won’t be a “scattergun” approach. It will be targeted.
• Working with the Directors and the business to work with their ideas of where the business goes next.
Sales & Lead Generation:
Qualify and generate new business leads and meetings for the sales team across a global target base
Follow up on leads from calls, emails, store visits, ensuring prompt actions
Engage with potential customers, confidently discussing their clients suite of services
Marketing & Content Support:
Conduct industry and trend research to inform marketing materials
Assist in the creation of compelling pitch decks and proposals
Support in the creation of marketing campaigns
Contribute to the development and publication of basic content for our marketing channels
CRM & Data Management:
Maintain accurate and up-to-date records in their CRM
Conduct market research to identify potential business opportunities
Collation of competitor analysis