Account Manager - Remote Working

Do you have client relationship or sales experience or perhaps an education sector background?

Are you looking for a role working from home but still with great support and team meetings?

Are you looking to progress your sales career, building on your sales experience to date?

Do you live within an hour of Bedford, with your own transport?

If so, our rapidly expanding client that works within the procurement and education sector is keen to hear from you!

The company:

Our client has grown significantly in the last 9 years, they provide a unique procurement framework for the public sector which includes providing IT related solutions for Schools, Universities, Colleges, Councils and the NHS.

Our client has the ability to take care of all the compliance by streamlining the process, whilst dealing with over 200 pre-approved suppliers for their needs. This can include simple hardware requests through to complex IT Support for a multi-sited trust.

The Role:

Working remotely, you will be dealing with incoming enquiries from a variety of organisations who have either been recommended or have identified my client offers exactly what they need - IT Hardware, IT Software or IT Services.

**This is not a hard sales role at all, all incoming enquires are genuine and it is all about building relationships.**

Following a process, you will be delivering the best IT based solutions, using existing or new suppliers in order to provide what the client needs, whilst recommending any other products or services that may be relevant to the request.

Our client offers fantastic training and ongoing support so you will be confident in dealing with the clients' journey through the process, whilst ensuring they get exactly what they need, they are fully compliant and work within their budget.

Being able to converse with a variety of clients over the phone and via video calls is key, this role is all about relationships and not hard sales at all.

Whilst the role is fully remote there are monthly meetings in Bedford as well as scheduled socials!

The Person:

The ideal candidate will have 1-3 years sales and customer relationship experience, dealing with business to business sectors, any exposure to the Education sector will be a bonus!

We are looking for a driven and hungry go-getter, full of enthusiasm and ambition to develop their career

You will be working within Customer Engagement Team of 9 people with excellent training and support available, from day one!

Working ours are flexible, typically 8 hours per day between 8:30am - 5:30pm, Monday to Friday.

Our client is offering a great opportunity to grow within their business, their offering is unique in the marketplace and they are a very friendly and caring organisation to work for.

The Basic salary depending on experience is £27,000 - £30,000 (negotiable), plus annual company bonus which can be as much as £4,000 per annum, plus benefits.

If you have the client relationship or sales skills we are looking for then APPLY NOW in complete confidence or contact Dominic Quirke at Advancing People directly.

Advancing People - The Recruitment Specialist

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