Inside Sales Account Manager/Desk Based Sales/Sales/Digital Sales - Brentwood, Essex

Accelerate Your Sales Career with Canon UK! Are you ready to take your sales career to new heights with Canon UK? We are seeking a dynamic and driven Inside Sales Account Manager to join our team and be at the forefront of delivering both new and existing business success.

As an Inside Sales Account Manager, you will work closely with our Sales and Marketing teams to:

• Establish Strong Relationships: Connect with designated customers and prospects.
• Generate and Close Opportunities: Proactively create, manage, and seal deals for Canon’s wide range of innovative products.
• Collaborate and Excel: Be a part of a supportive and forward-thinking team committed to excellence.

What we give:

• Pay – From £25,285 plus 6k OTE (£31,285). Guaranteed commission for the first 3 months and then for the next 3 months commission will be based on some STOs.
• Bonus – A discretionary bonus scheme that rewards you as you help us achieve our goals.
• Learning & Development – As a Company that encourages continuous learning you will always have resources and support available.
• Work & Home Life Balance – We support with a minimum of 25 days holiday per year, holiday purchase and a flexible working policy.
• Diversity – We are an organisation that delivers on a global scale, striving to create a diverse and empowered workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
• Health & Wellbeing – Private healthcare, an Employee Assistance Programme, partnership with Mental Health First Aid UK with a network of mental health champions and discounted rates to Nuffield Health Gym.
• Employee discount – Up to 38% off products from our Canon store.
• Some other Benefits – Generous Pension, Canon Awards, Discount cards, Cycle to Work scheme, Season ticket loans and charity volunteer days.

What we ask:

• You will identify and pass on sales opportunities that may be more suited to Field sales, or provide customer information & issues to the appropriate function within Canon.
• You will be contacting existing and potential customers by telephone informing them of Canon’s range of products and services, and generating demand.
• Using your experience, you’ll ensure that customer issues are handled by the appropriate team and manage the customer account through the lifetime of the sale.
• You’ll actively track, communicate and escalate sales opportunities to other departments where required.
• You will also be sharing customer knowledge with other departments to enable “cross selling”.
• On a daily basis you will carry out appropriate administration tasks applicable to the role, follow best practice and make recommendations for improvement.
• Your career at Canon is important and we encourage you to own your development with the support and guidance of your manager.

You will need:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, and understand the importance of building trust-based relationships based on your delivery of results.
• The ability to support the development of others through provision of mentoring and coaching in your areas of expertise.
• Competence in using Excel, to analyze and display data, create insights, develop compelling and viable business cases and track success.
• A natural ability to communicate with people and an aspiration for a career in sales.
• To be a self-starter, driven and focused on achieving challenging goals.
• Confidence and persuasiveness with a strong desire to succeed.
• Commitment to excellent customer service and preparedness to go that extra mile to ensure customer satisfaction.