Inside Sales & Pricing Specialist

Tall Grass Recruitment; Widnes; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an Inside Sales & Pricing Specialist in Widnes. The role involves building relationships, achieving profitable growth, and assisting with pricing inquiries in the freight industry. Candidates must have essential sales experience and demonstrate strong communication skills. The position offers flexible hybrid working, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, and additional perks like 23 days holiday.

Benefits

23 days holiday + BH

Pension

Flexible working

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Proven sales experience in the freight industry.
• Ability to understand cost and profit drivers.
• Flexible with a strong team-working ethic.

Responsibilities

• Achieve profitable growth while building client confidence.
• Assist the team with pricing enquiries and drive business opportunities.
• Coordinate with carriers, ensuring timely quoting.

Skills

Freight / industry knowledge

Good communications skills

Sales experience ESSENTIAL!!!

Knowledge of excel & word documents

Ability to analyse, change, and adapt

Commercial acumen

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Inside Sales & Pricing Specialist

Location: Northwest

Salary: DOE + Bonus scheme

General Summary: Focus on development of own accounts primary area sea freight FCL / LCL, imports and exports. Candidate can also freely develop any other areas of the forwarding business, sea / air / road / warehouse. Assist the team with pricing enquiries, for sea freight only. Drive forward business opportunities, and increase company volume and profile. Responsible for the day-to-day self-performance, including delivering new accounts, co-ordinating with carriers, and assisting BDM team with enquiries. Ensure accurate and timely quoting, and follow up. Keep own performance record and show development progress when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Achieve profitable growth
• Show flexibility, adaptability, and willingness to embrace the challenge
• Build relationships across the board, colleagues, suppliers, customers
• Take decisive action when necessary
• Focus on targets to achieve growth.
• Understand market conditions, and ensure this is communicated to the operational team, and BDM's
• Build client confidence
• Explores customer opportunities to provide new value to the client
• Ability to understand cost and profit drivers
• Apply financial, and risk management to evaluate commercial opportunities
• Ensure balance of risk / reward

Key Skills

• Freight / industry knowledge
• Ability to provide reports using various software
• Good communications skills
• Ability to analyse, change, and adapt & willingness to learn new things
• Ability to work in a team environment and work to given timeframes/deadlines
• Motivate self to obtain best results
• Knowledge of excel & word documents
• Sales experience ESSENTIAL!!!
• Commercial acumen, and swift decision maker

Package

Salary DOE + bonus scheme

Flexible / hybrid working

23 days holiday + BH

Pension

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