Junior Account Manager

Do you have experience of working with customers, answering queries, have confidence in talking with customers over the phone, helping customers with finding solutions?  Are you looking for a new challenge?  Would you like to manage a portfolio of clients, ensuring you service and grow the business to the highest standard?  If so, we have an opportunity for an individual to join a passionate sales and account management team in Yeovil as a Junior Account Manager. 

If you haven’t done this role before, we would welcome your CV still, as full training will be provided.  You need to be willing to work in a sales-based environment, must be willing to work towards and meet targets and KPIs and you also must have a good level of administration and IT skills. 

Confident communication is important for this position and we would ideally like to see candidates who can demonstrate these skills from a previous customer focused role.

Key duties include:

• Answering sales calls in a professional manner
• Providing quotations to customers as required
• Follow up on quotations and prospects in a timely manner
• Plan sales calls to maximise forward movement
• Update all IT systems
• Create effective customer communications, emails, proposals and presentations, tender submissions.
• Resolving customer queries in a manner which maximises customer satisfaction
• Reviewing account portfolio spend patterns each week
• Development of non-spending accounts to maximise sales revenues 

This is a permanent position, in Yeovil with free parking.  The position is Monday – Friday 8.00 – 17.00 with an hour lunch break.  The salary will be between £26,000 - £28,000 depending on the level of experience.

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.