Position: Account Manager
Location: Leeds (LS16)
Salary: £18,000 per annum + OTE
Hours: 08:45 – 17:15 (Monday – Friday)
Experience: Customer Service, Telesales, Account Management, Retentions, Customer Relationship Manager, Sales, B2B, Account Manager, Sales, Up-Selling

The Opportunity

Thompson & Terry are working with our rapidly-expanding automotive client who is looking to recruit a confident and enthusiastic Account Manager into their Leeds office.

As Account Manager, you will be responsible for making outbound cold calls in order to sell our client’s unique motor-based product to other businesses. Once the candidate has secured a sale, they will be required to manage the account with a consultative approach, offering impeccable levels of customer service for the initial 6-months of their contract.

As Account Manager, your aim is to ensure that relationships are continually maintained and enhanced. This will involve regularly contacting each client, asking in-depth questions regarding their company needs, offering alterations or additional products accordingly and holding intelligent conversations in order to ultimately retain custom.

The successful Account Manager will, therefore, be able to easily pick up a detailed knowledge of the company, confidently discuss it over the phone, and have a good understanding of the client’s needs. Additionally, the role will involve an element of up-selling and lead generation and so the confidence to sell is essential.

The Company

The company are a long-standing client of Thompson & Terry recruitment. Over the past three years, they have grown and developed at an increasing rate, meaning that they are now a leading business within their field.

The culture of the company is focused around having a balanced work and social life. All employees start and finish work at the same time and an early finish on a Friday is also encouraged as a way of recognising the hard work that is carried out by employees throughout the week. Furthermore, they provide a generous benefits package, including Perkbox, again rewarding their employees for their hard work.

Requirements

• An excellent communicator, with experience of working in a heavily telephone-based role
• Passionate about pursuing a career in high level customer service
• The confidence to effectively up sell products
• Ambitious to learn and build a career
• Highly organised and comfortable with managing a large workload

Thompson & Terry Ltd, trading as Thompson & Terry Recruitment are an Abingdon based recruitment agency specialising in the sourcing of Sales, Marketing and office administration candidates in Oxfordshire. No terminology used in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, gender, age or sex.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to a high volume of applications, if you have not heard from us within 5 working days, unfortunately, your application has been unsuccessful at this time.