Job description
About you
You are a personable, outgoing vehicle consignor with a passion for classic cars and a proven track record in an automotive sales environment. You thrive when picking up the phone to call potential clients, asking people to part with their vehicles at auction, or simply gathering feedback on our services.
You are detail-oriented in your work and able to follow a process and record interactions within a CRM. If you have some experience consigning vehicles from trade customers that would be a bonus.
About the role
You will start by reaching out to your existing contacts and prospecting new leads from customers who have classified ads on our site and trying to get them to list their vehicle on our auction platform.
You will manage your vehicles through all stages of the pipeline and ensure customers receive the best possible service. Whilst previous classic car auction experience is highly desirable, full training will be given to candidates who demonstrate strong sales skills and are hungry to succeed.
About us www.carandclassic.com
Car & Classic is one of the largest automotive marketplaces in the world. We’re lucky to have thousands of user-generated listings submitted monthly with content gems from James Bond’s Aston DB5 to Elvis Presley’s Cadillac. The site is old, launched in 2005 but under new, VC-backed ownership since 2018 and on an exciting triple-digit growth journey to bring classic vehicle transactions online.
Our culture is incredibly important to us. We’re lucky enough to have built the team from scratch with a focus on enjoying the day-to-day, diversity, inclusion and high performance. Despite being an entirely distributed business we build strong connections as colleagues and have created a fun and high-performing culture.
We’re looking for a Sales Negotiator that has good, relevant experience and wants to make their mark in a rapid growth business where they can make a real difference, whilst enjoying the environment and culture.
Finally, you don’t have to love cars to work here (and lots of our team don’t) but for those who do this is an incredible opportunity to combine your passion and professional lives – we look forward to hearing from you.
The skills, attributes and experience you must have:
- Automotive sales experience
- Strong customer service experience
- Experience in making multiple outbound calls
- Working in a target-driven environment
- Interest in and detailed knowledge of classic cars
- Experience in prospecting
- Excellent verbal and written English and high-level communication skills
- A hands-on, get-stuff-done, action-orientated approach
Skills, attributes and experience it would be nice for you to have:
- Classic car auction experience and a black book of contacts
What do you get (remuneration & benefits)?
- £25,000 + commission
- Stock options
- All the equipment you need to get the job done
- Flexible working - work where and when you want in order to get the job done
- Access to free counselling, therapy and mental health support via Spill
- Professional development allowance
- Income Protection
- Life Cover
- Smart Health
- Generous parental leave
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Ability to make your mark on a fast-growing start-up
Our application process
We want to make sure we hire the best available talent! We had a fantastic 2022 with all our hires hitting the ground running. We are excited to do the same in 2023.
Every role is crucial to us at this stage of our growth. We are continuously improving and evolving our recruitment and application process. Once you decide to apply you’ll be presented with a series of questions. The answers to the questions are the difference between your application being progressed or not. Please do give them your time and effort when answering.
Good luck with your application and thank you in advance for your interest in joining us at Car & Classic.
Car & Classic Limited is an equal-opportunity employer
Equality, diversity and inclusion are integral parts of our culture. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we hold ourselves responsible. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role.