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People First - DANISH, NORWEGIAN, SWEDISH or FINNISH spkg SALES

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Central London - London, United Kingdom
Salary: 35000 - 50000
Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
Required Languages: 1

Advertiser Details

  • Name:
    People First
  • Posted:
    15-08-2012
  • Code:
    1205-64
Job Title:DANISH, NORWEGIAN, FINNISH or SWEDISH speaking Sales Executive – Business Information
Skills: Fluent DANISH, NORWEGIAN, FINNISH or SWEDISH, extensive senior level B2B sales experience.
Salary: £35-38k OR c45-48k€ + commission + benefits
Location: LONDON OR FRANKFURT, GERMANY

1. Summary purpose of your job:

• Work closely with the Regional Sales Director to meet the sales revenue target for the territory
• Maximise revenue from prospective users and low spending clients.
• New business development is a primary focus.
• Meet or exceed quotas for personal sales calls

2. Accountability

2.1 New Business Development

• Take the lead in the territory to search out, identify and visit potential new Enterprise Accounts.
• Qualifying high-potential sales leads generated through such routes as direct or e-marketing activity, trade shows and partner lists.
• Work closely with the product and technical team to find the best solutions for each prospective client.
• Work with the Enterprise Sales team and the other Sales teams in Continental Europe and to maximize sales revenue from enterprise accounts.

2.2 Account Development

• Work closely with the Account Executive to identify and action opportunities to increase revenues from existing Enterprise Accounts.
• Make sales calls and in-person visits to these Enterprise Accounts in the territory.

2.3 General

• To keep up to date with the product portfolio, electronic media and the competitive marketplace.
• Demonstrate electronic information services whenever necessary and attend electronic information services at seminars, conferences and trade shows as required.

Skills Profile

Graduate – ideally in business, economics or international studies.

Face-to-face selling, ideally selling to corporate managers, information specialists and Treasury/Economic departments.
Track record in selling business information or services into Scandinavia.
Demonstrated ability to over-achieve sales quotas.
Experience gained within a blue-chip, high-profile brand with an emphasis on long-term service, value and quality.

Impressive communication skills - highly developed persuasive, influencing and negotiating skills.
Intellectual depth combined with practical ability.
Ability to understand and adapt to the needs of the marketplace and develop and maintain strong relationships with clients.
Able to demonstrate personal initiative: sense of urgency.
Willingness to travel and ability to organise trips effectively.
Energetic and enthusiastic.
Articulate.



If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs.
Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.
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