Account Executive

STR Group Limited; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped commission up to 30%

Hybrid working after Training Academy

Training Academy from day one

3pm finish Fridays

Breakfast provided

Pension scheme

Private healthcare options

Annual incentive trips

Job summary

STR Group's Navis Consulting is hiring an Account Executive to connect maritime professionals with cruise businesses worldwide. You will join the Training Academy from day one, developing pipeline, and working across international markets.

Expect uncapped commission up to 30%, structured career progression and hybrid working after training. You will build strong relationships, learn the cruise sector and support clients with recruitment needs, aiming for measurable KPI targets and a long-term

Qualifications

• Recent graduate or sales professional with drive.
• Willing to work across international markets and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Network across platforms to build an international pool of cruise and maritime candidates.
• Develop long-term relationships with candidates.
• Learn about the international cruise market as a sector specialist.
• Write, advertise and market vacancies across channels.
• Support clients with recruitment needs and identify new business opportunities.
• Work towards personalised KPIs and financial targets.
• Progress along your earning potential and career path.

Skills

Networking across platforms

Relationship building

Market knowledge

Sales mindset

International markets

Education

Recent graduate

Job description

To help you transition into the role, new starters will receive a commission accelerator of up to £1,500, paid over their first six months, providing additional support while they develop their pipeline and market knowledge.

• Year 1 OTE: £30,000
• Year 2 OTE: £50,000-£70,000
• Year 3 OTE: £80,000-£100,000

Are you a recent graduate or already thriving in a sales role, with a natural drive for success? This Account Executive opportunity sits within Navis Consulting, STR Group's specialist maritime brand where you will work on an exciting international cruise desk.You'll connect talented maritime professionals with leading cruise businesses and projects around the world, developing specialist market knowledge and building relationships across a truly global industry.At STR Group, recruitment is about more than filling roles; it's about delivering consultancy services, creating business solutions and making a tangible impact for clients.

From your very first day, you'll join our award-winning Training Academy, gaining the skills and knowledge needed to identify opportunities, advise clients, build lasting relationships and develop a successful recruitment career.Working across international markets and multiple time zones, you'll become a trusted recruitment partner to candidates and clients within the cruise sector.You'll build a strong professional network, develop your own specialist market and work towards managing complex, high-value recruitment assignments.

Working at STR

STR Group is an international workforce and project solutions consultancy specialising in high-tech facilities, life sciences, engineering and technology, marine and automation.Since our inception in 2000, we have continued to evolve alongside our clients and the STEM industries we support.Our approach begins with understanding what a client is trying to achieve.We diagnose the challenge, evaluate the available options and design a solution aligned with the client's commercial and operational objectives

What will you be doing?

• Networking across different platforms to build an international pool of specialist cruise and maritime candidates.
• Building and developing excellent, long-term relationships with candidates.
• Developing your knowledge of the international cruise market and becoming a trusted sector specialist.
• Writing, advertising and marketing vacancies through a variety of channels.
• Supporting clients with their recruitment needs and helping to identify new business opportunities.
• Working towards personalised KPIs and financial targets.
• Taking control of your earning potential and career progression.

What are we offering you?

• Structured, transparent and performance-based career progression
• Uncapped commission of up to 30%
• Award-winning, ongoing learning and development delivered by dedicated in-house experts
• Flexible and hybrid working following completion of the Training Academy, subject to maintaining performance targets
• A 3pm finish every Friday
• Modern, state-of-the‑art offices with breakout areas
• Daily breakfast provided
• Employee of the Month and Employee of the Quarter awards
• Quarterly Directors' Lunches Michelin recommended restaurants
• An active Equality, Diversity and Inclusion board
• Training Academy graduation celebration
• Annual, all-expenses‑paid incentive trips for top performers
• Annual Awards, Summer Party and Christmas Party
• Long‑service anniversary rewards, including additional holiday, bonuses, vouchers, champagne and gifts, depending on length of service
• 23 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing by one day for each completed year of service and capped at 28 days
• The option to purchase up to five additional days of annual leave
• Healthcare cash plan and optional private healthcare from day one
• Company pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Your birthday off
• Drinks fridge
• Free on‑site parking
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary‑sacrifice scheme through Octopus Electric Vehicles
• Tech salary‑sacrifice scheme through Currys
• Employee Referral Programme

This is an opportunity to build a highly rewarding career while developing genuine expertise in specialist global markets.STR is committed to offering applicants with disabilities an interview where they meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

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