Trainee Sales Executive

Beeks Group; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share Options scheme

Job summary

Beeks Group is seeking a proactive Trainee Sales Executive to join its dynamic sales team in the UK. You will contact clients, generate high-quality leads, and learn to present pitches and proposals.

With full training and coaching, you’ll gain the skills to succeed and progress to a Sales Executive role, potentially with international travel. The role emphasizes hitting weekly targets, developing client relationships, and collaborating across internal teams to deliver excellent customer

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential.
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Self-motivated with a proactive, independent work style.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and developing existing client relationships.
• Self-generating leads through cold calling, email campaigns and networking.
• Meeting weekly and monthly targets.
• Collaborating with internal departments to ensure a positive customer experience.
• Entering and managing data in the sales management system (Salesforce).
• Promoting the company’s services via social media (e.g., LinkedIn).
• Staying up to date with industry trends and market conditions.
• Reviewing personal performance against targets as you gain experience.
• Engaging in training modules to deepen sales knowledge.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Time management

Self-motivated

Tech interest

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Beeks Group is a leading managed cloud provider exclusively within financial markets. Our Infrastructure-as-a-Service model is optimised for low-latency private cloud compute, connectivity and analytics, providing the flexibility to deploy and connect to exchanges, trading venues and public cloud for a true hybrid cloud experience.

Founded in 2011, Beeks Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BKS) and has enjoyed continued growth each year. Beeks Group now employs over 100 team members across the globe and have an international network of over thirty data centres.

What we are looking for

We are offering a great opportunity to a highly driven and enthusiastic individual who wants to build their career working within a professional and dynamic sales team.

The right person will be someone who is extremely confident, highly driven, a self-starter and appreciates that hard work drives opportunity. They must have a thirst for learning about our products and be committed to supporting Beeks achieve our overall targets. This role suits someone early in their career , no previous sales experience is necessary, as we’ll give you full training and hands-on coaching to help you build the skills to succeed.

The role

As a Trainee Sales Executive, you will be a point of contact for our clients and will assist with their day-to-day needs. Each week you will be tasked with prospecting for new clients to generate high quality sales leads.

You will be expected to achieve a high level of output each week as well as creating sales pitches and presentations, which you will present both internally and externally.

This opportunity will give the right candidate the chance of promotion to Sales Executive, with the prospect of international travel, providing you are proactive, committed and hungry to succeed.

Your responsibilities include

• Maintaining and developing existing client relationships
• Self-generating leads through cold calling, email campaigns and the use of networking
• Meeting weekly and monthly targets
• Working collaboratively with internal departments to ensure an efficient and positive customer experience
• Accurately entering and managing data within our sales management system, Salesforce
• Helping to promote the company’s services through social media such as LinkedIn
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and market conditions
• Reviewing your own sales performance against your targets as you gain experience in the role
• Actively engaging in training modules to sharpen your sales acumen and deepen product understanding

Essential skills

• You must have excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively and efficiently with internal departments
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to build strong relationships with all stakeholders
• A desire to continually learn and develop
• Self-motivated with the ability to take initiative and work independently, as well as within a team
• A keen interest in the tech sector
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Not afraid of hard work

What you’ll bring

• No previous sales experience needed, full training and ongoing coaching will be provided
• A genuine interest in starting a career in sales or the tech sector
• Some initial work experience (e.g. part-time, retail, hospitality or customer-facing roles) is useful but not essential

What we offer

• A unique and highly rewarding Share Options scheme