Sales Executive (x2)

St Helens College is one of the largest Further Education Colleges in the North West of England with over 7,000 students and a turnover of £24m. We pride ourselves on helping our students realise their full potential and our state of the art £60m town centre campus provides an exceptional learning environment. There has never been a more exciting time to join the College and to be involved in our journey towards excellence.

We are looking to appoint a enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to the role of Sales Executive. The role will to be focused on defining and executing employer related business sales to ensure the development of commercial training and apprenticeship services to companies across Merseyside and the North West in line with Corporation, College and Business Development targets.  You will be a motivated, well organised team player with a demonstrable high level of commitment.  Candidates will need to have considerable experience in a sales role and have consistently achieved stretch targets.

The job role will include:

• To identify and drive sales opportunities within new and existing target markets using current Labour Market Intelligence and a range of sales approaches including cold calling/appointment setting, field sales, mailshots and sales appointments
• To work closely with strategic partners to identify and generate qualified sales leads
• To visit new and existing accounts and develop business opportunities in order to achieve and exceed sales targets on a monthly and annual basis.
• To help companies diagnose their requirements for learning by producing Training Needs Analyses which clearly sets out solutions to meet their business needs.

The benefits package includes generous annual leave, membership of final salary or career average pension scheme, professional development and training, free on-site car parking, and other voluntary benefit schemes, including childcare vouchers and cycle to work scheme.

St Helens College is committed to Equality and Diversity and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff, students and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

This role does not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas & Immigration to enable sponsorship of migrant workers.  Therefore we cannot progress applications from candidates who require sponsorship to work in the UK.

Please note we do not accept CV’s from recruitment agencies. Any speculative CVs sent to the College will NOT be considered.