Solar Sales Advisor at SO ENERGY

So Energy Limited; Chigwell; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the renewable energy sector as a Sales Consultant, where you will help customers transition to solar energy solutions. You'll manage customer interactions from initial contact to installation, ensuring a smooth journey while promoting energy independence. This role offers a competitive base salary, uncapped commission, and a values-driven culture focused on sustainability and personal development.

Benefits

Personalised Learning and Development Budget

Hybrid working hours

25 Holiday Days + local bank holidays

1 Birthday day

3 So Giving Days

Religious Celebrations Leave

Mental Healthcare

Enhanced Family Leave

Qualifications

• Prior demonstrable experience within a target driven sales role.
• Ability to handle high volumes of customer contact across various channels.

Responsibilities

• Designing and creating estimate solar quotes for customers.
• Proactively manage inbound and outbound activity.
• Selling the benefits of solar and driving customers to book installations.

Skills

Communication

Negotiation

Customer Service

Sales

Education

Prior experience within the UK residential solar and energy storage market

Job description

Want to play an integral part in the UK's journey to a Net Zero Future? This might be the job for you

?? London, Hybrid

?? Base salary £29,576

?? OTE £45,000 with uncapped commission

?? Our Perks

Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture.

Personalised Learning and Development Budget

Hybrid working hours – empowers you to do your work in the best way you can

25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays

1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!

3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause

Religious Celebrations Leave

Mental Healthcare – sessions with Unmind

Enhanced Family Leave

Who we are

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:

Clear

Honest

Ambitious

Inquisitive

Caring

Sustainable

The Role

Our new Installation services for Solar panels, batteries and EV charge points is helping to save homeowners money whilst helping customers do their bit in the fight against climate change. Your role will be to help grow our customer base in becoming more energy independent, helping to deliver sales via the conversion of leads by phone, video calls and e-mail, having designed a suitable solar array and created a quote, and ultimately ensuring customers commit to booking an installation with So Energy.

Reporting into our Energy Independence Sales Team Leader, you will be highly adept in managing our customers through all aspects of their initial solar journey from first contact to the successful completion of a home solar survey through to a customer confirming an installation. This includes designing an appropriate solar array, gathering relevant information of the customers property & discussing estimate and final quotes with customers, whilst problem solving, objection handling and managing the customer journey via our CRM.

What you’ll be getting up to:

Designing and creating estimate solar quotes for customers.

Proactively manage a high volume of inbound and outbound activity, ensuring timely follow ups and effective communication with potential customers.

Selling the benefits of solar and driving customers to book a home solar survey and confirm an installation

Undertake video calls with customers to gather relevant property information

Strong belief in providing excellent customer service

Confident dealing with customers across multi-channels

Excellent negotiation skills and energetic approach to finalising sales with potential customers

Be the first point of contact for any questions from our customers in relation to their estimate quote, survey or final quote.

Upskilled to a high standard in all processes & tasks

Taking ownership of any complaints with a focus on delivering a positive output for our customers

A strong drive for process improvement and a willingness to take the initiative

A passion to change the way we use energy on the grid, helping people make the shift away from fossil fuels towards cleaner energy

This role will be a great fit if:

You are target driven

You thrive in a fast-paced environment

Have the ability to handle consistently high volumes of customer contact through various channels, including phone calls, video calls and emails, while maintaining high service quality.

You’re tenacious and eager to help bring in new business

Strong collaborator working well with the team to ensure consistency and streamlined processes across all aspects of the Customer journey

Flexible, reliable and reactive to your Department’s demands

Prior demonstrable experience within a target driven sales role

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Strong written and verbal contact handling skills

Be able to prioritise your workload and adapt to change dependent on customer and business requirements

Ability to overcome challenges to the service delivery and comfortable in working with customers who require a more bespoke service

Able to remain unphased when speaking to customers and attempting to overcome objections

Prior experience within the UK residential solar and energy storage market is desirable but not essential

Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.

So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!

Want to tailor your application?

Hiring Process

??Psychometric Assessment (25 mins) & initial Screening call with the Talent Team (30 mins)

??Competency based interview with Solar Sales Team Leader (1hr)

??Final Stage Interview with Head of Solar & Storage

If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Our Values

We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.

Clear

Honest

Ambitious

Inquisitive

Caring- We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us s.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.