Job title: Account Executive – Office Based

Reporting to: Head of Sales
Position: Full-time
Salary: £17,000 per year plus commission

Are you a confident and organised person?

We are currently recruiting for a passionate, confident and organised Account Executive to join our vibrant team.

We work with ground-breaking technology. And whilst you won’t be expected to know your Kernels from your Kubernetes from day one, you will need a head for technology, a passion to learn and a drive to be better every day. Our Business Development Managers own the day to day relationships with vendors such as Quest, Mindjet, Intel, SAP, Flexera and ManageEngine. They’re responsible for agreeing and implementing quarterly business plans and ensuring sales and growth targets are met.

About us

Sigma is a software and technical services distributor. We help market leading vendors reach more customers by working with resellers across Europe.

We’re an enthusiastic, customer-focused team; to ensure we can solve our customers’ problems we invest time in training and personal development. To help the team grow the business, we work hard giving everyone balance – a personal trainer, yoga and an employee assistance program are just a few of the ways we do this. Having our HQ on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park in the beautiful market town of Ashburton also helps. Colleagues regularly tell us that their teams are why they love their jobs.

About the role

Helping account managers hit monthly targets, as well as further growing the company and brand. You will be managing your own workload with great attention to detail, efficiency, and accuracy. You will be working collaboratively with the other members of the Sigma sales team to help support each other’s workload when required. Day-to-day, you will be responsible for providing customer quotations and working closely with sales support on post order queries. Profiling reseller accounts to ensure we have accurate data, and our systems are up to date. Producing reports on sales activities for the Head of Sales. Working with Account Managers and Sigma Sales Support team to provide an excellent level of customer service.

About you

You will have a least five GCSE level 4/grade C (or equivalent) and above including Maths and English, and at least two years business-to-business sales experience. Our most successful people are commercially minded, focused, supportive, pragmatic and creative. Does this sound like you?

Other skills we are ideally looking for:

• Must be an excellent communicator, over the phone, written and face to face
• Excellent IT Skills
• A self-motivated, driven character with the ability to show initiative
• Attention to detail, efficiency, accuracy in reports and customer communication and dialogue
• Able to prioritise and re-prioritise during the day to ensure urgent tasks are completed
• The ability to choose the best course of action, escalate if required but retain ownership of the issue until resolved
• Ability to build added value relationships with customers and partners – customer focussed
• Honest, trustworthy and reliable

To Apply

To apply for this role please send your CV along with a concise summary of what you’d bring to this role. It’s your chance to sell yourself so make the most of it.

There may be development opportunities available that might increase the post holder’s responsibilities and duties. These will be discussed with you and agreed. The above tasks are neither exclusive nor exhaustive and the post holder may be required at times to carry out other appropriate duties as deemed by their line manager.