Junior Account Executive

Job Description

Junior Account ExecutiveAt LoveLocalJobs.com, we believe that the right people create the right culture. Our core values help to define who we are, by inspiring one another and encouraging us to thrive personally and professionally. We believe that being curious makes us more knowledgeable,being kind to those around us gives us humility and our relentlessness brings us results and growth.LoveLocalJobs provides the best local job opportunities from the best local employers in Sussex. In building an innovative, engaging and results driven jobs board platform, we can promote a wide variety of opportunities with the region’s best employers acrosspublic, private and voluntary sectors.That is where YOU come in.What you’ll doYou will identify and acquire new business leads as well as developing and maintaining relationships with existing clients - ensuring that you are offering the best customer experience and have a genuine passion for the community we work in.This would be a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking to take their first steps into sales and account management and looking to grow their career within a collaborative and creative environment. You will have a growth mindset, but also be comfortableand confident working on your own.You will enjoy working in a hybrid set up and working as part of a team to achieve success.You will also....

• Nurture and develop current and lapsed accounts with leading employers across Sussex and the South East - leveraging such relationships as much as possible.
• Pro-actively contacting and interacting with Sussex employers, showcasing our innovative platform and solutions.
• Gaining diverse commercial experience in a supportive and dynamic environment.
• Generate new business meetings and leads for the Head of Commercial and work alongside to help secure new long-term accounts.
• Support the Head of Commercial in communicating and liaising, internally and externally using appropriate methods to facilitate the development of profitable business and sustainable relationships.
• Be responsible for the administrations of all job postings for new, existing and established key clients.
• Answering the phone and assisting customers with any enquiries
• Confident in creating sales forms for customers in a timely manner and liaising with the accounts team to ensure the invoicing is completed.
• Attend job fairs, events and conferences on a regular basis, taking advantage of networking opportunities to increase traffic to LoveLocalJobs.com.

RequirementsWhat you should have

• A passion for sales is essential.
• Comfortable and confident with a high volume of outbound sales activity
• Exceptional Customer Service Skills
• Confident in answering the phone and has a polite and friendly telephone manner.
• A creative individual with a good growth mindset is desirable.
• Strong communication skills
• Good administrative skills and organisation
• Experience in Office 365 such as word, excel and PowerPoint.

It’s also a bonus if you have:

• Knowledge of Canva/MailChimp and Vidyard Experience in using online portals and different CRM and CRS systems such as Sales Force, Madgex, Google Analytics, Google DFP.

Why work with usWe are set up to support and create success. We’ve won a ton of awards and have been featured in many industry insights. We enjoy what we do, and we love working together. Cool hey We want you to succeed, together we are stronger.Everybody in our team has an important part to play in our success. Whilst we are each individually responsible for our day to day running, we work very closely as a team to always provide the best solutions for our clients.We know that if people feel good, they will do well. It’s simple!We are a team that respects, trusts, and looks out for one another. We have a flexible remote working system that allows us to balance time in work with our interests and commitments outside of work. This is very important to us and has undoubtedly beenthe key to our success in recent times.Some of our MANY benefits include:

• Hybrid working - we like working remotely but we love being in each other’s company more, so that flexibility is there to work wherever you want with no hidden agendas.
• The office hours are Monday to Thursday 8.30am - 17.30pm with a 16.00pm finish on a Friday.
• We also believe in the freedom to work the hours where you are more productive so more flexible arrangements can be arranged.
• Opportunity to travel to events and meetings in the UK and EU. Holiday allowance of 25 days plus 8 bank holidays, that’s 33 days a year.
• We also increase your allowance each year once you have passed 3 years giving you the opportunity to have 38 days holiday per year. Nice!
• Regular social events with a great team!
• Mid-year and end of year party!
• Birthday day off!
• We celebrate work anniversaries with a lie in or early finish AND special gifts to celebrate certain milestones along the way!
• Private Health Care, which also includes Free Gym membership!
• Pension contributions as you’d expect! ……….and much more!