Telesales Executive

Aaron Wallis Sales Recruitment; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Aaron Wallis Sales Recruitment's Nottingham-based client is seeking a hands-on telephone sales professional to manage existing customers, generate orders and proactively win new business.

You'll spend most of your day on the phone, re-engaging lapsed accounts, introducing new products, and qualifying B2B prospects across foodservice and wholesale sectors. Full training will be provided and you will develop with the growing sales function.

Qualifications

• Requires previous experience in telephone-based sales or business development.
• Full training will be provided, you will not be thrown into the deep end on day one.

Responsibilities

• Take and grow orders from existing customers.
• Re-engage lapsed accounts.
• Introduce new products to customers.
• Research, call and qualify new B2B prospects across foodservice and wholesale sectors.

Skills

Telephone sales

Business development

Customer management

Job description

Our client is a fast-growing specialist supplier to the UK and Ireland foodservice market. We’re recruiting for a fast-growing specialist supplier to the UK and Ireland foodservice sector, supplying a high-quality portfolio of frozen and ambient food products through foodservice wholesalers, distributors, restaurant groups, QSR operators and franchise businesses. They're expanding their product range, growing their customer base and investing in the team to support the next stage of growth.

The Package

• Nottingham
• 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm (no evenings or weekends)
• Genuine progression – develop alongside the business as the sales function expands
• Variety – work across established products and brand-new launches
• Sociable office with communal areas, a pool table and kitchen facilities; tea, coffee and water provided
• A 2-minute walk to McDonald's, Greggs, Subway, Costa, Aldi and a large garden centre

The Role & Requirements

This is a hands-on telephone sales role combining existing customer management, order generation and proactive new-business prospecting, so it's not a passive, order-taking seat. You'll spend much of your day on the phone: taking and growing orders from existing customers, re-engaging lapsed accounts, introducing new products, and researching, calling and qualifying new B2B prospects across foodservice, wholesale and related sectors. To be considered you'll need previous experience in telephone-based sales or business development, a confident and natural phone manner, and evidence of turning conversations into commercial opportunities. Full training will be provided and you will not be thrown into the deep end on day one.