Jisp is an award-winning retail marketing and tech company that delivers best-in-class mobile marketing, shopping, and payment solutions via our app. This is an exciting time to join the team as we begin the delivery of new solutions within grocery retail and wholesale markets. As we grow, we provide the opportunity for all our employees to grow with us and climb the career ladder. We offer a very attractive benefit package.
Summary of Role:
The business development executive is responsible for converting new business prospects into warm leads for the account management team by pitching Jisp and its various solutions as an indispensable business partner. You will work in partnership with the sales team to generate profitable sales by showing prospects how Jisp’s technology and expertise helps to deliver outstanding ROI.
You will organise your time and resources to research the database of prospects, build your product and market knowledge, and learn and rehearse your sales pitches to give yourself the best opportunity to convert prospects into customers.
You will collaborate well internally, working alongside team leaders to develop more customers and grow revenues.
Reports to:
Key Result Areas:
1. To hit or exceed agreed sales and profit targets demonstrated by:
o Hitting our numbers, base and then exceeding
o Selling solutions that support customers’ current and future plans at the right price
o On-time closing
2. To develop and maintain profitable customers, demonstrated by:
o Close and up-to-date insight into their business needs
o Understanding and promoting our strengths
o Market knowledge
3. To deliver agreed inputs demonstrated by:
o Weekly call and meeting hits (time spent with customers)
o Effective planning of daily and future activity
o Effective and on-time closing
4. To collaborate well, demonstrated by:
o Participating in innovation
o Problem solving
o Supporting our product teams
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
* To plan for, achieve and exceed individual sales targets through a mix of effective new business and established customer calls.
* To deliver agreed number of effective customer contacts each week in order to optimise our service to customers and to ensure coverage of the wider market.
* To source and build an effective base of new customers using internal and external resources and through agreed new business call targeting contact.
* To produce robust annual sales forecasts for your customer base and to submit regular re-forecasts to your team.
* To have complete and up-to-date knowledge of our products and their competitors, including new developments and changes to our products and to keep your customers informed.
* To keep accurate records of all customer activity and contact in our CRM system and be meticulous about all aspects of administration, minimising account queries and delivering what we promise.
* To work as an effective part of the team, successfully collaborating with all other team members towards the delivery of our company targets.
* Reasonable out of hours mingling with customers is expected.
Person Specification – Business Development Executive:
“Proactive, tenacious, organised and target driven”
* A person with a professional approach to contacting people and helping them solve their problems, demonstrated by an understanding of networking and confidence in speaking and listening.
* Organised person who values punctuality, demonstrated by note taking and examples of follow-up actions.
* An achiever, who loves hitting targets and is tenacious in the face of setbacks.
* A creative thinker, willing to learn and able to identify solutions and present them with promise.
* A team player, able to understand our brands and support our teams.
* Track record of success in B2B sales.
* Experience of digital sales.
* Experience of using CRM packages.
Benefits Package:
* Up to £28,000 annual salary (D.O.E)
* Paid leave: 23 Days Holiday, bank holidays, 1 staff improvement day, 1 summer BBQ day, half day for Christmas Party, half day on Christmas Eve
* Share Options scheme
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Company events & team days
* Employee assistance programme
* Free fruit & drinks at Head Office
Job Types:
Additional pay:
* Yearly Bonus
* Company pension
* Discounted or free food/drinks
Schedule:
Monday to Friday
Work location:
How will you represent Jisp and our values?
Be an expert by constantly improving your skills and evolving with the team.
Be passionate by sharing the Jisp vision and connecting people, places and information.
Be innovative by wanting to disrupt every industry possible.
Be you by having fun, sharing goals and being empathetic to clients, customers and colleagues.
Want to learn more? See About Us for more about our values, culture and vision.
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