Requirements

Sales Skills & Experience

• UK Hospitality/HoReCa sector experience in a Business Development role, essential.
• You will be able to build rapport & trust with stakeholders at all levels and maintain strong relationships.
• Able to adapt your style to varying challenges & / or conversations.
• You will be flexible with your time management and ability to support when required.
• You will be bright and self-motivated, able to work alone but still be an active participant in the team.
• You should have a great phone manner; have good written and spoken English and strong attention to detail.
• You should be tenacious and diligent, able to own a problem and follow it through to conclusion.
• Experience with working based on targets. The ability to understand and work within a budget targeted environment and ability to present to the senior team on progress v targets and budgets.
• Have the ability and understanding of marketing approaches that can be used to drive improved sales.
• Be organized and diligent in logging information to ensure the pipeline of activity in the channels can be tracked and monitored internally.
• Work within the wider Aqua Cure team to drive success to all channels.
• Be target driven and accountable with a proven history of delivery.
• You should be IT literate (MS Word and Excel).

Behavioral Competencies

• Communication: Communicates information in a clear and precise way to suit the audience and achieve the right results in particular the following must be demonstrated daily:
  • Produces structured and logical emails, reports, and presentations by using relevant facts and benefits to construct persuasive arguments.
  • Understanding what is relevant, and demonstrate a willingness to communicate issues and ideas to gain senior management support.
  • Demonstrates active listening skills including non-linguistic skills.
  • Has the confidence and the presence to present company solutions to both internal and external audiences.
• Teamwork: Establish effective team working relationships when operating within their own or other cross functional teams.
• Customer Focus: Understands the needs of external and internal customer taking action and ownership to resolve problems and exceed the expectations of the customer.
• Continuous improvement: Drives the business forward by identifying and seizing opportunities and creating ideas to continually improve performance.
• Drive: Persistent and resilient in their drive to achieve results, deliver high standards for themselves and their team. A self-start with the focus to learn new systems.
• Strong "hunter" sales mentality: Assertive, confident, and high sense of urgency. With the ability to plan and organise your day, maximising opportunities to speak too/meet clients.
• Pipeline management: Progressing all prospects, exemplary follow up, negotiation and objection handling skills.
• A high desire to exceed targets balanced with great customer service.

Benefits

• Salary: £38-40k dependent on experience
• Competitive Commission Scheme.
• Generous Car Allowance.
• Benefits:
  • Monday to Friday working pattern.
  • 23 days annual leave increasing with long service + Bank Holidays.
  • Company Pension Scheme.
  • Perkpal Benefits + 24 access to Employee Assistance Programme + Volunteering Day + Long Service Awards.
  • Employee support network and Mental Health Assistance.