Sales Executive

All About the Role

Barrett Engineering Steels have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and ambitious Sales Executive to be both out in the field and office based; building, developing, and managing a strong portfolio of customers through excellence in customer service, technical support and managing the end-to-end sales cycle. To further enhance the business, onboarding of new business is also a requirement through a proactive and managed approach, lead generation, relationship planning and prospecting.

You will manage and grow a portfolio of customers, building long term mutually beneficial relationships with the full support of our internal sales team.

• Generate a pipeline of new customers and business leads by face-to-face visits, targeted phone calls and other marketing strategies.
• Build on existing customer relationships ensuring full potential are received.
• Develop new business
• Target customers and projects, leading negotiations and maximising the commercial opportunity through regular contact.
• Evaluate and deliver visit plans based on customer potential, priority and location ensuring time and costs are efficiently achieved.
• Achieve sales KPI’s
• Where necessary, delivering product presentations to customers on a range of items.
• Be an ambassador for high customer service standards.

You will have the passion, drive, and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way.

• Previous B2B field sales experience within a busy sales environment and have a proven record of building accounts and delivering results, ideally in the engineering steels market, or similar technical product.
• Excellent communication skills and strong analytical ability. Be able to work under pressure and to tight timescales.
• Builds strong relationships quickly, a proactive attitude and approach & used to working to targets and KPI’s.
• Barrett Engineering Steel offices are based in Bolton, travelling throughout the UK, and stopping away may be required so a full UK driving license is essential.

• Excellent salary that will depend on experience
• Bonus potential
• Car/Car Allowance
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Life assurance
• Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure
• Access to health and wellbeing services
• Barrett Steel pension