IT Sales Executive Witney, England
Job description
Storm Internet is a multi-award winning established hosting company based in Witney, Oxfordshire. We're agile, we're growing, and we're on the hunt for a Sales Executive to join our close-knit team. Whether you're fresh out of college or have a couple of years under your belt, we're interested - if you bring energy, ambition, and a knack for fostering connections that count.
What we value isn't just what's on your résumé. It's the enthusiasm in your pitch and the ambition in your eyes. We're looking for someone who can not only speak the language of hosting technology but also engage with clients on a personal level. Why? Because real relationships drive real results. Let's be honest, people buy from people they like.
If you're someone who can walk into a room and make fast friends, who can listen as well as you can talk, and who's hungry to turn every lead into a loyal customer, then we've got a desk with your name on it. At Storm Internet, you'll have the opportunity to grow professionally with the backing of a supportive team and enable businesses to reach for the sky. Apply now and let your career take off.
What you will be doing:
- Proactively generating, qualifying, and closing new business opportunities
- Following up on inbound leads generated from our marketing activities
- Working collaboratively with Support Engineers to ensure our solutions fully meet the customer’s present needs and support their future growth requirements
- Building relationships with new and existing clients, gauging their needs, and developing proposals to address these needs
- Managing your assigned customer accounts to help ensure exceptional client satisfaction.
- Maintaining a clear understanding of a customer’s business needs and how Storm Internet fits in with them
- Present clear and compelling propositions to customers through professional and well-structured business meetings/calls
- Building a pipeline of new business opportunities
- Creating quotes and closing opportunities
- Managing all sales opportunities through Storm Internet’s CRM system and ensuring all tasks are completed on time
- Consistently achieving financial targets and providing a first-class service
Skills & Experience
- Outstanding business development with a focus on new business to both SMB and Enterprise target clients
- Strong full life cycle B2B sales experience
- Track record of driving revenue through strategic selling and negotiation techniques, face-to-face presentations, and high-quality proposals.
- Proven ability to meet and exceed targets in the shape of KPIs and a monthly revenue quota.
- Proficient with all facets of MS Office, in particular, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Previous IT / managed hosting sales experience desirable
Personal Skills
- A first-class communicator with solid presentation skills and the ability to liaise and build rapport with colleagues and customers at all levels.
- Enjoy dealing with business owners and have a talent for understanding their own agendas and challenges.
- A confident self-starter who works well in a team as well as by self. Able to learn quickly, use your own initiative, and be motivated to get the job done effectively.
- An excellent listener.
- Methodical with strong attention to detail.
- Excellent level of written and spoken English.
- Good organisational & time management skills.
- Self-reliant, enthusiastic, and motivated.
- Strong interest in cloud hosting technologies.
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Location: Witney, Oxfordshire (Predominantly office-based role)
Hours: 37 per week (Monday to Friday)
Salary: £25,000 - £30,000 basic (pending experience) + £30,000 OTE + Uncapped Commission
Benefits: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, bonus holiday on your birthday, hybrid & flexible working options, private medical insurance, generous company pension scheme, free gym membership, onsite parking, training, development and career progression opportunities, free Storm hosting services! Be part of a team where your input directly makes a difference and efforts consequently rewarded!
About Storm
Storm Internet is a multiple award-winning fully-managed UK-based hosting provider. We pride ourselves on delivering old-school customer service where client care means taking a personal interest. That’s why we do more than just deliver mission-critical hosting our customers can rely on - we work to propel them forward with solutions that alleviate workloads, provide cutting-edge continuity and security, and that help keep their online spend manageable. We also help our customers do business that’s a little better for the environment with renewable-powered hosting and other initiatives that offset carbon emissions.
Job Types: Permanent, Full-time
Salary: From £55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Profit sharing
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
- Commission pay
- Performance bonus
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Witney: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- IMPORTANT NOTE: Please complete both the "Sales skills" and "Customer Service fit" Skills Assessments within 24 hours of applying for this position. This is required in order for us to review your application. Applications that do not complete these will be rejected.
Experience:
- B2B sales: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Witney
Reference ID: STORM/INDEED-SALESEXEC0923
