Outside Sales Executive

Job Description
Are you looking for a challenging sales role? Optimise the value of existing customers and add new ones to your portfolio by making visits and travelling throughout the UK.

Develop deep customer relationships and grow our business as an Outside Sales Executive

You will go to great lengths to promote the services of Samskip Multimodal BV to existing and potential customers, in order to meet our sales, revenue and profitability targets. To do so, you will manage and respond to customer enquiries and seek and secure new business in line with our company goals. You will be visiting clients, but you will also grow customer activity via phone and email.

While your targets may be ambitious and customers may be demanding, no two days will ever be the same. We offer you a challenging role in which you can leave your mark and contribute to our business. As part of a vibrant team, you can make your own decisions while being backed by the wider team.

What your job entails:

• Travelling throughout the UK, including the North West, West Midlands, South and South West, visiting customers (2-3 days per week, including some nights away).
• Processing administration on a daily basis, including creating customer-specific SOPs, timely updates of CRM and creating quotes.
• Maximising the impact of your role by networking within the Samskip organisation, building business knowledge and working with other departments.
• Actively ensuring timely payment of outstanding invoices.
• Representing Samskip at industry and customer events and exhibitions.

Our ideal Outside Sales Executive? Someone who goes beyond the obvious.
We want you to thrive on variety; you know where and how to make a difference, and can easily adapt to unexpected events that may consume your day. When everything is set up and ready to go, you are ready to hit the ground running. You have the burning desire to make your own successes and wins. You take initiative, are extremely ambitious and can easily work within a defined structure.

Our ideal sales expert has:

• A commercial, business or sales degree, for example in business economics.
• A minimum of 5 years of sales experience in the freight forwarding industry, selling transportation solutions to Blue Chip customers.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Fluent language skills in English, both verbally and in writing. Being proficient in any other language(s) is a plus.

This is what we will give you in return
Working at Samskip means investing in your career. We do not just provide you with a job: we offer you plenty of freedom to shape your own role and implement your own ideas. You get the chance to grow your own portfolio, travel across the UK and improve your negotiation and communication skills. To do so, we offer you many opportunities to develop yourself personally and professionally, including our online Academy and onboarding programme.

We also offer our new Outside Sales Executive:

• A competitive salary and a company car.
• 23 days paid annual leave, a pension scheme and medical insurance.
• A workplace of outstanding natural beauty in Wherstead Park, Suffolk.
• An international working environment in which people are more than just colleagues.

Are you ready for the unexpected? Enter the world of transportation now.
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About Samskip
Samskip is a global logistics company, offering transport and related services by land, sea, rail and air. We focus in particular on cost-efficient, sustainable and environmentally-friendly transport. With an annual turnover of more than 633 million euros, we are one of the largest transport companies in Europe. We have offices in 24 countries in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, with around 1500 employees in total.