Description
Acquisition Sales Consultant - Field Based - Target Driven
My client a leading Technology provider are seeking an Acquisition Sales Consultant to support the business growth by directly selling a portfolio of software and services into the UK Education Market. The key focus for this role will be to gain new customers through coordinating campaigns, proactive calling, face to face meetings, presentations and events.
The successful candidate will:
- Identify target markets and opportunities and acts upon these opportunities to create leads for their set of propositions
- Visit customers to understand their needs and generate leads
- Pro-actively call prospective customers to make appointments
- Feedback to Product Management and Marketing when trends are identified that are identified through calling
- Attends events
- Creates new channels to marketing through strategic relationships
Key Skills
- A track record in business development, preferably in the ICT sector
- A passion for the education sector
- Good communicating and influencing skills
- Strong team working skills
- Good sales skills and educational knowledge
- Planning & organising skills
- Good judgement and decision making
- High stress tolerance
- Flexible can-do attitude with a willingness and ability to adapt within the role
- The ability to think and act independently; with customers and within the business
- Results orientation and achievement against objectives, targets and KPIs
- Good written, numerical and presentation skills