Sales Cadetship

Mainfreight; Sydney; On-site; AUD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Mainfreight is launching a sales cadetship in Sydney, Australia, to start or advance your career in sales and leadership. The program is personalised to your experience level and focuses on customer-facing roles within our global business.

You will receive hands-on training across transport functions and systems, including operations, administration, customer service and sales, with exposure to warehousing, international forwarding and local cartage.

Qualifications

• Be highly motivated
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced team environment
• Have great attention to detail
• Be creative and challenge the way we do things
• Enjoy and be confident with face to face customer interaction
• Have a willingness to learn, and excellent personal presentation
• Possess a strong internal drive to succeed showing initiative to develop their knowledge
• Understand that being a team player is paramount!

Responsibilities

• Hands on, structured and supported training
• Learning all Transport functions and systems, including operations, administration, customer service and sales
• Exposure to the wider business, including warehousing, international forwarding and local cartage
• Attendance at internal and external sales skills training sessions
• Regular debriefs with the Sales Manager
• Participating in joint calls with the sales team

Job description

Our sales cadetship is an exciting opportunity to commence or advance your career in sales and leadership.

Depending on experience levels, we will personalise a program to support your transition into a customer facing sales role within our worldwide business.

You can expect:

Hands on, structured and supported training

Learning all Transport functions and systems, including operations, administration, customer service and sales

Exposure to the wider business, including warehousing, international forwarding and local cartage (understanding of the global business – who we are and what we do)

Attendance at internal and external sales skills training sessions

Regular debriefs with the Sales Manager

Participating in joint calls with the sales team

ABOUT YOU

We expect you tolearn and understand the unique way we operate before working directly with customers to identify their needs and present them with our value propositions. Our commitment to quality and customer retention demands that we do so.

We are not expectinga new sales team member to deliver overnight success. We want to invest insalespeople who will embrace what we do and the way we do it.

Successful candidates will:

Be highly motivated and enjoy working in a fast-paced team environment

Have great attention to detail

Be creative and challenge the way we do things.

Enjoy and be confident with face to face customer interaction

Have a willingness to learn, and excellent personal presentation

Possess a strong internal drive to succeed showing initiative to develop their knowledge

Understand that being a team player is paramount!

WHY APPLY?

With unique exposure to decentralised business P&L’s and ownership for actions at a local level, we advance our team’s business acumen faster than traditionally structured corporates. We watch our sales team members grow their careers into the many existing and emerging leadership roles we have across our expanding Australian and International branch network.

We offer:

Ongoing training and development (including Korn Ferry sales training support program)

Opportunity to progress (we promote from within!)

Necessary tools of the trade upon completion of the cadetship

Job security as part of a international supply chain business

A highly valued role with job satisfaction

ABOUT THE BUSINESS

Mainfreight is in the essential service of global supply chain logistics. We partner with our customers to provide the full spectrum of warehousing, domestic transport and international air and ocean freight services. Our operations are powered by a global team of 10,800+ passionate people, world-class technologies, and can-do attitudes. We have 331 of our own branches operating in 27 countries, and our journey continues with exciting year-on-year growth.