Sales Account Manager

• Job Ref: SAM
• Job Type: Permanent
• Location: Southend-on-Sea
• Salary: Salary Negotiable

Job Description

The Role: Sales Account Manager

We're looking for a proactive and tenacious Sales Account Manager for a highly successful client based in Southend-on-Sea. This is an office-based role involving managing a high volume of current accounts for the business. We're looking for somebody who has strong telephone-based account management experience and who can hold autonomy in their role.

As the Sales Account Manager your daily duties will include the following:

• Continued communication with your allocated clients, focusing on providing superb levels of service to meet and exceed customer needs.
• Being proactive at every stage of the process, thinking above and beyond clients' requirements.
• Looking at developing new relationships with clients to maximise the return
• Maintaining sales plans and targets for each client.
• Looking and keeping a track of customer data to look at trends and provide information for management for sales planning purposes.
• Working on the Sage 200 to maintain accurate customer information and keep this fully updated at all times.

For the Sales Account Management role, you will demonstrate the following:

• Experience working in a high-volume telephone account management based role
• A real enthusiasm for your work, for going above and beyond and providing superb levels of customer support
• Excellent communication skills, able to build relationships with ease
• Approachable, positive and helpful at all times
• A team player but also able to work with independence within your role
• Excellent time management and organisational skills, able to work to deadlines
• IT skills with a good 'all round' knowledge of Microsoft Office

The Package

• Salary £18,000 - £22,000 + Bonus
• Working Monday - Friday either 8:00am - 5:00pm or 9:00am - 6:00pm
• Holiday entitlement
• Excellent career prospects
• Pension scheme