Background

Firebrand Training Limited provide accelerated residential IT certification training Specializing in Microsoft, Cisco, Novell, Sun, CompTIA, (ICS)2, EC Council and Oracle among other well known vendor specific or vendor neutral certifications.

The USP’s for Firebrand Trainings clients are: speed of training, reduction of costs, fully inclusive packages, immersed surroundings industry recognised skills measurement and industry experienced instructors.

Since starting trading in Summer 2001, the Company is now on an annual revenue run rate of greater than £9M. With 70+ full-time and FT equivalent staff we have taught over 12,000 students, is “Training Company of the Year 2006 and 2007” and according to www.itskillsresearch.co.uk is the fastest growing IT training company in the UK.

The Sales Team work together in a modern office near Oxford Circus. There is a good team spirit and the group regularly socialise with each other. A "scoreboard" projected on the wall shows how each team member is doing, so there is a strong team atmosphere of friendly competition. Our most successful sales people are confident and tenacious without being pushy.

The company is very proud of our hiring process and only hire demonstrably successful candidates who will contribute to both our on-going success and culture of the company.

We encourage the candidate to read more about us here www.firebrandtraining.co.uk

Responsibilities

The overall purpose of the role is to sell Firebrand Training Courses to private individuals, contractors and corporate accounts.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Out-bound sales calls to leads provided via the web or other channels,
• Cold calling potential client accounts,
• Keep up-to-date records of sales activity in a Goldmine CRM system,
• Produce accurate forecasts and pipeline information,
• Contribute as part of the sales team to new idea’s, approaches or techniques for sales,
• Keep up-to-date on relevant technologies and product offerings from TTC.

Skills and Background Required:

• Strong successful background of telephone selling IT products or services,
• Demonstrable cold calling and closing skills,
• Track record of over achieving targets,
• Strong team player,
• Motivated and target oriented individual,
• First rate verbal communication skills,
• Attention to detail in reporting and administration,
• Gregarious and out-going,
• Self starter, high energy and strong commitment,
• A technical vocabulary of Cisco, Microsoft or Database technologies.
• DACH Regional Sales requires fluent German (Mother-tongue)