Sales Executive (Road Freight)

MIU Consulting; Grays; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus

Job summary

MIU Consulting in the United Kingdom is recruiting for a target-driven sales professional to join our commercial team in the UK & EU Road Freight division. Based in West Thurrock or hybrid, you will develop new customers and re-engage existing accounts to grow revenues in road freight services.

You will own the sales journey from spotting opportunities to closing deals, build a UK & EU pipeline, lead meetings and site visits, and represent the business at industry events.

Qualifications

• Experience in Freight / Logistics sales preferred.
• Ability to build and manage a sales pipeline.
• Strong communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the sales journey from spotting opportunities to closing deals.
• Build a strong pipeline across UK & EU road freight market.
• Lead customer meetings, presentations and site visits.
• Represent the business at industry events and exhibitions.
• Collaborate with Head of Sales to design freight solutions.

Skills

Sales experience

Business development

Freight/logistics knowledge

Job description

West Thurrock, Essex

£40,000 (negotiable) + car allowance and bonus

Overview:

This large international transport and logistics business is seeking a bright, enthusiastic individual with a passion for sales to join their commercial team.

The role will have responsibility for getting out there to find new customers and re-engage with existing accounts to help grow commercial revenues in their UK & EU Road Freight division.

Access to the Thurrock area would be beneficial but the role could be done on a hybrid basis.

Responsibilities of this role:

• Own the sales journey from spotting opportunities through pitching and presenting to launching happy new customers for road freight services.
• Build a strong pipeline across the UK & EU road freight market.
• Lead customer meetings, presentations and site visits.
• Represent the business at industry events and exhibitions.
• Get to the heart of customer challenges and help to design freight and logistics solutions that work in conjunction with the Head of Sales.

The person for this role:

• Ambitious, tenacious and hungry with some pre-existing sales experience in the Freight / Logistics industry. Experience in road freight would be preferable.
• Proven experience in sales and business development and used to interacting with customers to understand their needs and develop solutions that fit.
• Excellent commercial awareness and the confidence to prospect, start new conversations and build opportunities from scratch.
• Engaging communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
• The role could suit someone looking to move from an internal sales role to a field based sales role.