Freight Sales Executive - Freightserve : Job Details

Freightserve recruitment are looking for a Freight Sales Executive for a well established Freight Forwarder based in the Wythenshawe, Manchester area.

Objective / Purpose of the Job:-

Due to increased global growth, the company are looking for a Sales Executive to cover the Northeast region (including; Yorkshire and Lincolinshire).

The role is offered on a hybrid working basis, but under the umbrella of the company's Manchester office.

Key Activities / Accountabilities:-

• To generate and follow up sales leads, visiting potential and existing customers to obtain new business at reasonable profit.
• To develop and maintain effective business relationships with new and existing clients.
• To offer a high standard of customer service to customers, by demonstrating a professional, helpful and positive manner, taking responsibility to ensure that work passed onto others is of high quality.
• To undertake presentations, produce and present tenders and proposals for new business and provide quotations as required.
• Build relationships
• Sales visits to generate business.
• To monitor and report on current developments in the market and information on competitors.
• To demonstrate effective time management, through efficient use of time and resources and well organised route planning.
• To build and maintain effective working relationships
• Responsible for using in-house system to record all required information, and for ensuring that all other documentation, records and systems are accurate and kept up to date.
• To prepare and present information for the management team as required, including the submission of weekly and monthly sales reports.

Benefits include a £5,000 call allowance and a competitive bonus structure.

As an agency we are fast becoming the number one Freight specialist in the UK. We have a fast growing reputation with most Freight related companies. Freightserve has been established since 1992 working within the Freight Forwarding and Shipping industry.