Account Manager - West Midlands

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, 36.25 hours per week

Salary: up to £47,500 and up to 20% bonus, car allowance of £600 per month and other benefits listed below

Location: Field based covering the West Midlands - Birmingham, Stoke, Wolverhampton, Stafford

The main purpose of the role is to create and maintain relationships with introducing used car dealers. To attend face to face appointments and telephone/email negotiations offering competitive finance terms to used car dealers. To ensure individual targets are met and adhere to company policies.

Your Impact: Building a greener tomorrow.

As an Account Manager at Tandem your focus will be on:

• Business Development - Creating quality used car dealer relationships within your geographical area.
• Account Management - Managing existing used car dealers to ensure they meet their sales and efficiency targets.
• Attending face to face dealer onsite meetings and negotiations to offer competitive finance facilities to used car dealers.
• Offering excellent customer service.
• Being an active team player.
• Achieving business targets and personal objectives.
• Attending 121’s and team meetings in any of our office locations (typically held in Cardiff/Blackpool).

We’d love to hear from you if you:

• Have effective communication styles and methods used to interact with used car dealers.
• Can work independently, setting your own priorities and taking a lead role.
• Are prepared to take accountability for your own performance.
• Can communicate verbal and written information to customers in a way which is clear, fair, and not misleading.
• Can work under pressure in a target driven environment, with the capacity to prioritise tasks.
• Have excellent organisational and time/diary management skills.
• Can research, digest, analyse, and present material clearly and concisely to senior management and director level.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills.
• Can work proactively and think strategically in a fast-moving environment.
• Can have flexibility and adaptability to a wide variety of tasks and to work extra hours where required to meet deadlines and deal with client queries.
• Can present to motor dealers of all size and types.

It would be great, but not essential if you have:

• Previous experience of motor finance, or associated businesses within the motor industry.
• Have a good understanding of the digital marketplace that exists within the motor finance industry.
• An understanding of the regulatory environment that exists within the motor industry.

Rewards that reflect your value, what’s in it for you? At Tandem, your hard work is rewarded in many ways, and we have an enhanced employee benefits package on offer from your very first day with us:

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 days Bank Holiday
• An additional day off for a ‘celebration day’ including, but not limited to, birthdays, weddings, religious holidays, graduations etc.
• Buy or sell up to 5 days holiday a year.
• Healthcare cash plan through Westfield Health worth a minimum of £750 per year
• Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
• Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme and a free helmet.
• Salary sacrifice Pension contribution*, 4% employee contributions matched with 4% Tandem contribution (*Subject to salary eligibility)
• Smart Tech scheme (buy goods with 0% interest)
• 10% discount on solar panels
• Tandem Hub for treats, cash back and discounts on UK retailers
• 2 days per year paid volunteering
• Free cereal, snacks and drinks in all offices
• Quarterly team social budgets

Our Green Deal: Your Impact Amplified

A little welcome gift from us to you, we’ll plant a tree in the Tandem Grove, and you can enter into our “Green Deal” below:

• Volunteer 2 days a year for charity > receive an early Friday finish.
• Raise £200 per annum for charity > Tandem provide PR and marketing support.
• Have renewable energy at home > receive an additional 1-day annual leave.
• Drive an electric car > receive £500 towards a home charger.

Ready to make your mark? Apply now and let's pave the way to a greener world, together.

Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that background checking (including credit and criminal records checks) form part of our recruitment process.

Tandem is an equal opportunity employer and are committed to meeting our responsibilities under the Equality Act (2010). We respect the diverse experience and talents that every individual brings to our Company, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.