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Commercial Sales Executive

Are you a confident communicator, comfortable at using your sales experience to attract new business

The Role: Established over 150 years ago, Bagnalls is the leading painting and decorating contractor in the UK. Roles of this nature are rarely advertised due to our focus on staff retention, employee progression and our uncapped commission based on orders.

Salary: We offer a competitive basic salary with an excellent uncapped commission structure.

Hours: Full time

Location: This role is based at our Erith Branch - hybrid working can be available after an initial training period.

As a Bagnalls Sales Executive you will be directly responsible for contacting potential customers via phone and email to introduce the services that Bagnall’s has to offer in commercial and industrial settings. You will build relationships with senior decision makers in a variety of sectors, including health care, education, and leisure to influence them to use Bagnalls to meet their painting and decorating needs. We pride ourselves on our ability to support our customers and as Sales Executive you will be the forefront of making sure those vital relationships are built and nurtured.

Responsibilities

The Sales Executive role will be mainly office-based and will require plenty of initiative as you start the journey of winning new business for the company.

• Identify new target customers through a range of different methods of research, including using social media.
• Build relationships with new & previous customers to ensure we are securing repeat business .
• Gain a strong understanding of our customers so that you can clearly highlight and articulate what Bagnall’s can offer them.
• Complete Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs)
• Manage the customer database.
  
  

• Strong verbal communication skills
• Previous sales outbound sales experience
• Confidence to build relationships with senior decision makers.
• Excellent, friendly telephone manner
• Good standard of written English
• Basic Microsoft Office skills and ability to learn to use an in-house database.
• Ability to learn about all aspects of the business quickly.
  
  

• Experience within the construction industry