What do you want from a job and is this it?
Do you want to learn? Do you want a job that not only rewards well in a great team but also gives you opportunity become one of the best?
Do you want a job that offers potential, where ideas are heard and actioned? Somewhere you can support existing people and grow the client experience.
Place North is seeking someone special. Someone with the right attitude, interpersonal skills, and drive for quality.
Who this job is for?
We are looking for a person with proactive drive, with a keen eye for the detail of a customer’s requirements. Someone who knows how to sell over the phone and in a room.
We are looking to add someone to our team that is confident but a hard worker who doesn’t mind doing the basic sales support work. Databases, Excel, emails, and calls.
This job is not for the hard seller, the short termer or the inbound sales booker.
Job Purpose
Support the Commercial team to promote and sell media products and services offered by the Place Group. Products include:
* Website Banner Advertising
* Newsletter Advertising
* Event advertising and sponsorship
* Direct Mail
* Job Listings
* Content Marketing
* Video Roundtables
* Sponsored Podcasts
Job Duties
* Approach new customers to make sales through cold calls, existing relationships, promotional events, or other means
* Confident to deliver a skilled sales pitch to potential clients, by phone, email or in person in an effort to secure a sale
* Works to complete all set task on a regular basis
* Flexible to pick up short term projects whilst managing daily tasks
* Studies and understands all facets of the products and services being offered
* Is familiar with and can explain the benefits and potential audience reach of specific media offerings
* Details pricing and negotiates costs when necessary
* Collecting client information, networking and maintaining the company’s CRM
* Adds notes to records for each client call or meeting
* Tracks every media purchase made to ensure that it is completed accurately and on time
* Completes sales from beginning to end, sourcing, securing and invoicing
* Travel to see clients, attend tradeshows, or participate in industry events
* Meet clients outside of normal business hours when necessary
Skills and Qualifications
* Outgoing personality
* Interpersonal skills
* Confident using the phone for marketing and sales calls
* Persuasiveness
* Likeability
* Confidence, resilience and reliability
* Customer service and listening
* Maintaining relationships
* Organised, detail-orientated, multi-tasker
* Degree in business, marketing, or a related field where possible but not essential
* Previous sales, property or media experience desirable
* Experience in hospitality or events desirable
Excellent package including:
* Salary: £25,000
* Commute to work scheme up to £1,000
* Mobile phone costs covered
* 26 days holiday (three of which are fixed for when business is closed over Christmas)
* Company matching pension scheme
* Flexi work option on bank holidays
* Potential for tax-free annual bonus under Employee Ownership based on company profit. Eligible automatically after 1 year of employment.
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