Trainee Sales Consultant London, England
Job description
Job Title: Trainee Sales Consultant
Salary: £23,000 - £35,000
Location: London (100% Office Based)
Jump-start your Career in Sales with a £30-35K OTE
We are Bionic, the UK’s number one business comparison and switching service. It’s our mission to make it radically easier to run a small business and earn the lifetime loyalty of British businesses.
To do this, we combine world-class human service with smart technology and data. This means our tech-enabled experts can quickly match business owners with the best deals on their business essentials – energy, connectivity, insurance, and finance.
We also partner with leading price comparison websites, including Compare the Market, MoneySuperMarket, Uswitch for Business, and Confused.com, who trust us to provide their business energy switching services.
What our customers say about us
"Knowledgeable, customer focussed service, resulting in a great deal"
"Customer care is excellent, checking to see it we have updated our supplier, a call which is much appreciated."
Responsibilities
As a Trainee Sales Consultant, you will be the first person our clients speak to at Bionic. You will be following up web enquiries from small to medium size business owners (for example hair salons, religious groups, charities, shops, cafes, picture framers) to qualify if a better deal can be made for their business essentials.
- Calling customers who have made a real-time web enquiry
- Confirm customers details and qualify if we are able to help
- Passing over qualified customers to the appropriate sales agents within Bionic
- Keep records of calls and note useful information on our Salesforce platform.
- Providing excellent customer service throughout
What it's like to work at Bionic as a Trainee Sales Consultant:
"Family work environment: Constant feedback, lots of support and lots of training when needed."
"Vibrant and exciting. I have almost been at bionic for a year and everyday is a new challenge it does not get boring. Colleagues are great and like minded. It is a great feeling coming into work excited and happy"
"Progression is great.You get exactly what you put into the job! Most people get at least one form of promotion in their first few months and continue to move up. Lots of team efforts even though it’s a sales based job."
Requirements
This is an early careers position from which you will be trained and developed to become an Advisor, Consultant, Expert and Specialist over the course of a year. From there you will have the opportunity to develop your career further into Management, Sales, Customer Service or within one of our Business Operations functions.
Is this you?
- Passionate about developing a career in sales
- Target driven and self-motivated
- Outstanding communication skills (verbal, written and listening)
- Enjoy building rapport with people from diverse backgrounds
- Punctual, focused & dedicated
- Open to learning and developing
- Friendly and outgoing
- Resilient and able to work under pressure
- Great verbal and numerical reasoning skills
- Higher education - PREFERABLE
- Previous work experience in either a customer service, sales or call centre environment is IDEAL but not essential
Working Hours:
This is a 5 days working week, on a permanent contract with the following work patterns:
- Mon-Fri: 8:45-5:30 pm
- 2 x weekend days (1x sat + 1x sun) per month: 10-4pm (2 weekdays off in lieu)
- 2 x remote evening shift per month: 5:30 - 8:00pm
- All work is office based except for evening shifts which can be done remotely.
Benefits
Successful candidates will be offered:
- 20 days annual leave + office closure between Christmas and New Year & extra day off per year of service up to maximum 7 days
- 2 extra days off per year – family/religious leave and charity leave
- Ability to buy/sell holiday
- Central London office with fantastic communal spaces
- Multiple monthly schemes and incentives
- Award winning and ongoing sales training
- Ongoing opportunities to progress your career across the business
- Well-being benefits
- Opportunities to enjoy multiple social events
We know that no two team members are the same, so our benefits package is built to support just that. We reward energy and passion by giving you access to a wide range of employee benefits, including cultural perks.
We are based in Central London, and are walking distance from the following train stations:
- Fenchurch Street – 3 minute walk
- Monument – 5 minute walk
- Aldgate – 5 minute walk
- Tower Hill – 6 minute walk
- Bank – 7 minute walk
- Liverpool Street – 12 minute walk
- London Bridge – 14 minute walk
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £23,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Discounted or free food
- Wellness programme
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus
Work Location: In person
