Job Title: Outbound Sales Executive
Location: Shepshed
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Competitive
Reporting to: Head of Commercial Trading
Job Req: R7745
Your role
Are you interested in working in a dynamic trading environment, where every day is different? Are you an experienced telesales professional? Do you have an interest in sustainable agriculture? We have an exciting opportunity at Circular Nutrition for an Assistant Trader to join our Shepshed team. You will have trading responsibility for co-products from our human food and drink suppliers on a national basis to our farm customers. You will provide accurate commercial and market information to the Field Based Account Managers, Merchants as well as direct farm sales. This role is varied and involves liaising with our planning and logistic teams as you will play an important part in retaining our existing customer base and managing supply contracts to ensure all financial targets are met as well as driving for new business sales.
Your responsibilities
- Drive sales of co-products from points of supply to satisfaction of suppliers and to ensure that communication is maintained with all key personnel at supply sites (3rd party & ForFarmers).
- Sales volumes and margin realization for co-products sales
- Following up on leads from the sales force and own lead generation
- Identifying new business opportunities and working with product managers on how to capture
- 100% logging on our CRM system of all customer interactions.
Your profile
- Completed higher-level vocational education (BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma or equivalent).
- Significant continuous work experience within a telephone sales environment.
- Strong communication skills
- Results driven with experience in target driven environments
- Motivation for sales and a commercial acumen
- Sales and closing skills
- Ability to motivate internal and external sales teams, suppliers and logistic partners
- Computer literacy and CRM experience.
- Proactive, customer centric approach
- Ability to building rapport quickly and longer term relationships over the telephone
- Agricultural experience is advantageous
About ForFarmers
Do you ever stop to wonder where your Sunday morning poached egg came from? Or the milk in your cafè latte? Or what about the sausage and bacon served with full English? It will come as no surprise to you that the animals which produce these products need to eat themselves too. And that’s where ForFarmers comes into the equation.
ForFarmers produces feed for cattle, pigs and poultry in both conventional and organic livestock farming. And that probably sounds a great deal simpler than it actually is. Make no mistake: an awful lot of knowledge, research and innovation has gone into one of those seemingly simple-looking chunks of animal feed. And these are the kind of things we, as a company, invest a great deal in.
What are the benefits of working for ForFarmers UK?
- Employee Assistance Programme (offering support on a range of topics).
- Private Medical Insurance.
- Options to enhance your pension after 12 months service (increased employer contributions).
- Opportunities to grow personally and develop within the business.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- B&Q Trade card offering 10% discounts in-store and online.
- And much more!
Applications
We value diversity in our workplace and welcome enquiries from everyone. To apply for this position please see our website Vacancies | Working at ForFarmers.
Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the role by assessing their circumstances against the relevant criteria on the Gov.UK website.
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We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.