Trainee Sales Account Manager

Our clients, a freight company based in Newcastle, are looking for a Trainee Sales Account Manager.

Main Responsibilities:

• Developing your own portfolio of customers by generating your own leads.
• Contacting businesses by telephone and attending your own sales appointments.
• Process consignments, track and chase deliveries, perform all customer service tasks and develop the account on an ongoing basis.
• You will be the single point of contact for your customers at all times.

Skills and Experience required:

• Full manual driving license.
• Experience of working in a proactive outbound sales role either on the phone o face-to-face.
• Influencing skills are essential, this is a competitive industry.
• Customer focused.
• Be smart and presentable and confident meeting and presenting to potential customers.
• Good admin and organisation skills are also key to this role.

This is a trainee role with 85% of your time based in the office.

The successful candidate will be offered a salary of c£18,500

Benefits include free parking, car, mobile phone, pension and more.

If you wish to apply, please contact the Shipping Team of Red Recruit quoting reference: VR/11313

Due to the current large volume of applicants for roles, unfortunately if you have not received a response within five working days, your application has been unsuccessful.

Red Recruit is a specialist recruitment consultancy that focuses on jobs in the shipping and freight forwarding industry, covering road, sea and air freight imports and exports as well as other associated sectors. Red also specialises in recruitment for the relocation, removals and property industries and each department has a number of fully trained consultants that have worked in the sector that they serve. All of our consultants are trained to a high standard and work to the Red ethos of recruitment. Call us today for a confidential chat with one of our specialised consultants about your next career move.