Sales Executive London, England
Job description
The company
Curious Crab Productions is a boutique video production agency based in London, working with exciting food, drink and travel brands nationwide including Olly’s Snacks, Truffle Hunter, No.1 Living, Lee Kum Kee, Miso Tasty, Hong Kong Tourism Board, Macau Tourism Board Paragraph Publishing, Delicious Magazine and more. At Curious Crab Productions, we specialise in creative storyboarding and video production for websites, online marketing content and social media ads.
Our studio is based in the thick of all the hip parts of South London between Oval, Kennington and Camberwell stations and a short bus ride away from Elephant and Castle.
Our team are highly engaged, communicative and passionate people who get super excited about food, drink, travel, and anything in the media industry. If you like all these things too, it’s worth applying!
The role
We are creating some amazing content for some brilliant brands with a slick operations team and are now looking to grow our sales and marketing team to fuel the growth of the business and build up our portfolio at a faster pace.
The role will be a hybrid of remote working and working from the studio or out and about at networking events and trade shows to grow the client database, establish new connections and maintain on-going relationships once converted. Our core target audience ranges from SME’s and challenger brands through to blue-chip companies across the UK.
The right candidate must have the thirst to continuously research and identify new sales leads with the confidence to turn new leads or prospects into clients within a 1–2-month lead time.
We have a relaxed way of working and good communication is at the top of our agenda, however we have high expectations around output and would require the right candidate to show your worth and hit the ground running, hitting minimum sales targets within the initial job probation period.
Hours of work
- 40 hours per week (1 hour lunch break per day)
- Monday - Friday
- 09:00am-18:00pm (Flexible between these hours)
Location
Work from home / Studio in Kennington
Our ideal candidate
- Targets driven.
- Excited to talk to others and turn small talk into detailed conversations around video production services that can support our client marketing needs
- Hardworking & Determined, with a sense of humour
- Creative mindset (to understand the process and sell the creative dream to the next customer)
- Excited by sales with a zest to succeed, with the resilience to handle rejection and move forward quickly to win the next sale
- An articulate communicator with a professional telephone & email manner
- Excellent command of English language
- Demonstrate initiative, with an open mind to learning on the job
- A keen interest in business, brands and marketing
- Excellent research skills and ability to keep up to date with trends and industry knowledge
- At least 1 year experience in sales preferred but is not essential for the right candidate
What’s in it for you?
- Healthy basic salary
- Generous capped commission (up to an extra £12K) per year
- 20 days’ annual holiday + Birthday off, Christmas Shutdown + 1 additional day holiday for each year of service up to a maximum of 25 days
- Ongoing career support and professional development & direct line to founder of the business
- Clear career progression and management opportunities
- Budgeted company expenses for B2B hospitality
- A fun, friendly exciting and vibrant work environment
This opportunity is the perfect chance to become part of a small team of skilled individuals who love working for a growing creative lifestyle business.
Please send us your CV or even a quick video to sell to us why you think you would fit into our creative videography team!
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £25,000 basic salary per year + up to 5% tiered commission
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Graduate
Salary: £25,000.00-£37,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Commission pay
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London
Application deadline: 02/06/2023
Reference ID: Curious Crab Productions Sales Executive Role
Expected start date: 05/06/2023
