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Language Matters - French speaking Sales Director

Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary: £5000 - £60000 per annum + £100k - £110k OTE
Languages: English, French

Advertiser Details

  • Name:
    Language Matters
  • Posted:
    15-03-2010
  • Code:
    2585NO/KH 08/03
French speaking Sales Director

Job Location: London

Salary/Additional Information: £50k - 60k and £100k - £110k OTE

Reference: NO/KH 08/03

Company:
An international online shopping website

Role:
French speaking Sales Director

My client is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, self-motivated, articulate and capable sales professional, who wishes to immerse themselves into the dynamics of a young, rapidly growing company. You will be dealing with electrical retailers and therefore are used to working on your own initiative and have the ability to influence decision makers at all levels.

The successful French speaking Sales Director will be working alongside the European Sales & Marketing Director to devise and deliver a target account programme for the individual European Markets, Pro-actively explore sales opportunities, research and identify electrical goods retail targets, Meet agreed new sales targets. This will involve cold calling retailers in order to generate a substantive sales opportunity pipeline but mainly from leads introduced by Manufacturers, Propose and provide appropriate suggestions and solutions for each target retailer that will maximise their sales opportunities, promptly respond to sales leads by email, telephone and by arranging face-to-face client meetings or visits, where appropriate, produce high quality and persuasive proposals, follow up sales opportunities on a regular and timely basis, negotiate preferred rates, Maintain and develop professional client (retailer) relationships, by agreeing service requirements, owning retailer concerns/issues and ensuring all parties are kept informed of relevant information, in order to provide first-rate levels of account management and to enhance both customer loyalty and revenue generation.

Profile:
· Fluent French as well as English, both written and spoken
· Substantial experience selling solutions to the French electrical retail market
· Excellent knowledge of the e-commerce in general and of the online French market in particular
· Excellent knowledge of online technology and E-commerce technicalities ( SEO, affiliate marketing, Google Ad word, etc…)
· Strong track record in sales and new business achievements
· Excellent communication and presentation skills

NB: If you have applied for any other languagematters vacancy there is no need to re-apply, as your CV will be considered for all of our vacancies that match your language skills and work experience.

To apply, please send your CV to Nassim Oukil

We work constantly to provide equal opportunities for all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, social background, religion, disability or sexuality.

NB. Client requirements dictate that we can only accept applications from candidates who are available for face-to-face interviews in the UK within 24 hours. Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK or hold a valid work permit. Please note that we contact successful candidates within 3-4 working days. We will consider you for all our vacancies now and in the future. Please do not reapply unless requested to do so. Language Matters is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.
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