Territory Sales Executive

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday trading

Enhanced maternity/paternity package

Life assurance 4x salary

Job summary

DPD UK is recruiting a Territory Sales Executive to drive new business revenue through proactive prospecting and a strong field presence. You will cold call and door knock to attract customers and achieve targets while handing over accounts within eight weeks to ensure smooth handover and service delivery.

The role requires a proven sales mindset, excellent communication skills, and a full UK driving licence.

Qualifications

• Experience in sales or similar environment.
• Strong communication, persuading and influencing skills.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Identify and develop a personal prospect funnel to fund new business targets.
• Monitor performance of new customers and adjust action plans as needed.
• Handover new accounts to Customer Care or CRM Account Manager within eight weeks.
• Identify and pursue regular trading opportunities daily and weekly.
• Champion the partnership process with new prospects.
• Achieve 12 brand new prospect visits per week.
• Meet portfolio product targets and ensure necessary credit documentation is in place.

Skills

Territory sales

Cold calling

Door knocking

Job description

• Salary:Up to £37504 plus commission, company car or car allowance laptop and mobile
• Base Location:Stoke, Walsall and Crewe
• Days of Work:Monday to Friday
• Hours of Work: 9:00 - 17:30

DPD UK is a member of Geopost who are a market leader in parcel delivery and e-commerce solutions, providing a broad range of delivery and innovative services for customers worldwide. DPD UK has a turnover of nearly £2 billion and our aim is to be the most sustainable delivery company in the UK. At DPD UK we also aim to deliver the best service, use the best technology and recruit and retain the best people in the industry.

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.

Job Description

We are actively recruiting for an ambitious and motivatedTerritory Sales Executive to join and strengthen our team of skilled sales people.

As a Territory Sales Executive your primary responsibility will be to achieve the company's revenue target for new business in line with the company's strategy for customer size, type and service mix. Cold Calling and "door knocking" is an essential part of this role to attract and develop new business.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Identifying and developing a 'personal prospect funnel' sufficient in size to fund both DPD & DPD Local new business targets as laid down in the company's strategic plan
• Monitoring performance of new customers to ensure they trade to an agreed profile. Agree and deliver action plans if variances occur
• Successfully handover all new accounts to either the Customer Care Team or relevant CRM Account Manager by the end of the first eight weeks of trade
• Identifying and pursuing regular trading opportunities on a daily and weekly basis
• To champion the "partnership process" wherever possible with any new prospects
• Achieving productivity targets. This will include 12 brand new prospect visits each week
• Achieving all portfolio product targets as laid down by the company
• Obtaining all the correct documentation required to process a credit facility to ISO standard

Qualifications

About You

Your career history will clearly be able to evidence success within a sales or similar environment and a tenacious attitude and drive to succeed in a fast paced sales environment.

Your outstanding communication, persuading and influencing skills will be fully utilised in this role as will your ability to focus on your customers to fully understand their needs and gain their commitment.

We'll also expect you to have;

• High levels of integrity and empathy
• Ability to manage own time effectively to meet targets and deadlines
• Be able to adapt own style to suit the needs of internal and external customers
• Effective problem resolution and objection handling skills
• Have the ability to work under pressure and demonstrate a positive, enthusiastic and resilient approach
• A great team player who demonstrates the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Caring and Accountability.
• A full UK driving licence is essential.

Additional Information

About our Benefits

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn't be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It's important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few...

• Holiday trading
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
• Vitality at Work
• Free On Site Parking
• Discounted shopping from 100's of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
• Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
• For employees who regularly use a screen as part of their job we offer free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.