Sales Consultant

MOL; Manchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational provider in Manchester is seeking a Sales Consultant to advise clients on a variety of educational products. The role involves understanding customer needs and tailoring solutions to sell effectively in both B2C and B2B markets. Ideal applicants will possess strong customer focus, negotiation skills, and a commitment to ethical sales practices. The position is full-time, offering generous leave, a pension contribution, and employee benefits.

Benefits

34 days annual leave

Significant pension contribution

Retail Discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Responsibilities

• Advise customers and sell educational products to various industries.
• Proactively contact customers to identify their needs.
• Tailor solutions to meet sales targets.
• Gather customer intelligence for product improvement.

Skills

Customer focused

Persuasiveness and negotiation skills

Commercial awareness

Accuracy and attention to detail

Good keyboard skills and ICT competence

Effective communication

Continuous improvement mindset

Commitment to ethical sales

Driven to achieve goals

Team player

Job description

In this Sales Consultant role, you will be required to advise customers and sell a wide range of professional learning products to new and existing customers in various industries.

You will have a strong desire to reactively and pro-actively contact and work with customers to identify their needs and to sell current MOL products. This may require tailoring or bespoke design of programme solutions so you can achieve your sales target with accounts across MOL and group full range of products and programme areas. You will also gather intelligence on customer needs to share with the business and senior managers to continually improve the product offering.

You will need to be driven, organised and dedicated to managing a busy and demanding workload. You will have a genuine passion for the world of education, putting the client and the learner experience at the heart of everything you do.

You will need to represent the MOL brand through excellent product knowledge and skilful questioning to match the right product to meet customer and MOL needs.

This is primarily a Business to Consumer (B2C) role with some focus on Business to Business (B2B) relationships.

This role is offered on a permanent, full-time (37 hours per week) basis, based at our Openshaw Campus.

As a Sales Consultant Sales Consultant working for MOL we can guarantee variety, support and a great company to work for! Although you will be working remotely you will be part of a supportive and experienced team, so help is always on hand. Our teams get together both virtually and in one of our many centres on a regular basis.

Please see the attached job description for more details.

In order to be successful in your application you will need to meet the following essential criteria:

• Customer focused - able to focus on delivering the best outcome from the customer perspective
• Influence - Persuasiveness and negotiation skills
• Commercial awareness - Mature attitude with an understanding of business issues
• Delivery - Accuracy and attention to detail
• Possesses good keyboard skills and ICT competence
• Communication - Deals effectively, positively and clearly with written and telephone enquiries from customers and stakeholders
• Continuous improvement - Strives to continually improve service and shows a willingness to learn new skills as required
• Sales ethics - Committed to ethical sales and selling practices
• Achievement - Driven to achieve personal goals and team targets
• One team - Enthusiastic team player

Benefits:

• 34 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays, plus birthday day off
• significant pension contribution
• Retail Discounts
• Employee Assistance Program

MOL is an equal opportunities employer. We ask all applicants to demonstrate in their application their ability to meet the key responsibilities of the role with experience and/or qualifications detailed within the role profile.

Across the LTE Group we work to support our veterans into employment and are also proud holders of Disability Confident employer award. If you require reasonable adjustments, please let us know.

The LTE group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All applicants will be required to undergo an appropriate DBS check via the Criminal Records Bureau. Due to the educational aspect of our group some roles are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and would require an Enhanced DBS check and may be subject to additional online checks as part of our pre-screening process.

The closing date for this job advert is 11/09/2025. However, sometimes the job advert may close early if we receive a good response, so we recommend you apply at your earliest opportunity.