Account Manager - East Midlands

ACCOUNT MANAGER - EAST ENGLAND & MIDLANDS

Sophie Allport | Sales | Customer Relationships

We have an exciting opportunity for an Account Manager to join our Trade Sales team. In this role you will be responsible for trade customer sales, continued business development and full account management, for the East of England & Midlands region. The ideal candidate will be living within the territory as you will be on the road visiting new and existing customers as well as working from our Head Office when required. Working hours are Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm, with some flexibility for travel and events over a limited number of weekends.

All About You

You will be joining a dynamic and encouraging team so you will be a true team player, working collaboratively to achieve goals together. The wider Sophie Allport departments are just as important as your immediate team so you will relish the opportunity to work alongside them also. You will have a positive approach to your job, customers and colleagues and embrace new processes and concepts, whilst being able to challenge existing procedures. To be successful in this role requires resilience, a proactive manner and someone who is results driven.

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with the sales team, ensuring that our brand is represented well and with the right customers.
• Responsible for every aspect of the customer’s experience, including some administration of their account.
• Managing new and existing key accounts and independent retailers to include gift shops, cook shops, garden centres, farm shops and department stores.
• Ensuring that customers are met with regularly to maximise customer service levels and sales.
• Working with the Head of Sales to analyse sales data and maximise opportunity.
• Working to a monthly and annual financial target as well as KPI’s.
• Representing Sophie Allport at showroom events twice or more a year.
• Reporting back to the Head of Sales on a regular basis on activity.

Experience, Requirements & Attributes

• Previous experience within trade retail sales is key to be able to understand our customer’s needs.
• Fantastic organisation skills.
• Analytically minded.
• A strong work ethic and someone who is self-motivated.
• A genuine interest in lifestyle, homewares and interiors is an advantage.
• A full clean driving licence is essential.
• The successful candidate must have Right to Work in the UK.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we'd love to hear from you!

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company car
• Employee discount
• On-site parking
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Please confirm that you are able to work across the territory
• Please confirm that you are able to commit to working from our Head Office (Bourne Lincolnshire, PE10) on a regular basis

Experience:

• Account management: 4 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road