Established in 1988, Spitfire is a leading owner-managed medium-sized internet and telecommunications service provider. We are one of the select few in the UK to have our own core network. We provide innovative Internet, Cloud, IP telephony, and IoT solutions to over 5,000 business customers, many of whom are famous brand names. With emphasis on engineering skills and industry-leading customer service, we aim to build long-term business relationships.
We are currently looking for graduates with the drive and determination to succeed in a dynamic sales team to enroll in our industry-leading training program. Located in London or Birmingham, this is a fantastic opportunity to join an exciting technology company in a fast-moving industry and build a long-term high-earning career.
This role will be starting September 2025 so beat the rush and secure a job with a great career now!
Earn a highly competitive starting salary of £27,500 in Birmingham, with additional commission and bonuses leading to an OTE of up to £36,500 in Birmingham.
You can expect this to increase to £33,500 with a £43,000 OTE in year 2 and £38,500 with an OTE of £53,500 in Year 3 (Birmingham).
You will start your first year with a comprehensive training program where you will receive in-depth technical and sales training, including working towards gaining your CISCO CCNA certification. This is a challenging graduate role with responsibility for managing customer’s technical requirements from a very early stage, and so successful candidates will be able to apply themselves right from the off. You will be trained with all the skills needed to start making business-to-business sales to a broad range of Small to Medium Enterprise customers.
This is an outstanding first step for a high-achieving graduate candidate who is career motivated and looking for their first technology sales role.
You will have at least a 2.1 in a STEM, IT, computer science, business, economics, geography/geology, or similarly intellectually challenging degree subject. Engaging to talk to, you enjoy mastering a subject and then applying your knowledge accurately to make a difference in the workplace.
You must have permission to work in the UK for 2+ years.
Location:Birmingham, B4 6AT
Hours:Monday to Friday, 40-hour week, permanent full-time
Benefits of Working at Spitfire as a Graduate Account Manager in Sales
- Spitfire offers excellent earning potential and rewards generously for success and hard work.
- As a company, we provide our Graduate Account Managers with structured engineering, technical, and sales training via both internal and external courses.
- Our Sales teams enjoy regular motivational competitions and incentive schemes.
- We believe that everyone plays a part in contributing to the success of our business, and therefore we are dedicated to the personal and professional development of all of our employees.
- All graduates are expected to obtain professional CISCO CCNA engineering qualifications, which are widely recognized and allow them to develop extensive product knowledge and understanding to become the best in the industry.
- Our offices are modern and open plan with fantastic views towards the City of London.
- We also provide permanent health insurance after two years continuous employment.
- Access to our Employee Wellbeing assistance service.
- The opportunity after a successful probation period to work from home up to 50% of the week.
- There is a gym next door.
- Successful applicants will be eligible to apply for a rental deposit loan.
Responsibilities
- Learn, assimilate, and keep up to date with industry technology.
- Manage client relationships to grow and cross-sell Spitfire’s products into new customers and the existing customer base via telephone and customer-facing meetings.
- Have a competitive nature to challenge yourself, meet, and exceed set sales targets and sales activities.
- Identify sales opportunities within the existing base in order to capitalize on maximum sales growth.
- Understand and keep abreast of competition, their issues, products, and pricing.
- Provide support and day-to-day account management to allocated customers.
- Assist other departments in resolving customer issues to help retain clients.
- Prepare written presentations, customer demonstrations, cost-saving analyses, and product quotations.
- Record all sales leads and manage these on a day-to-day basis.
- Update and provide accurate sales order and forecasting figures.
Our sales team is primarily made up of graduates who have developed their careers with Spitfire, and whilst they like to work hard, they also like to socialize regularly visiting nearby pubs and playing various team sports.
Find out more about what it is like to work in sales at Spitfire by looking at our website.
Please apply for this job if you meet the minimum requirements and we will get back to you for an initial conversation before scheduling the first interview. Ensure that your CV has all your education from school to date along with the subjects and grades attained. There must be no unexplained gaps.
We will be moving forward interviewing successful candidates early 2025. If you do not hear back from us, then you have been unsuccessful in your application.
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