Confetti Celebrations Ltd

Role: Media Sales Executives, Full Time and Part Time

Location:Confetti offices at Hollinwood Business Centre, Albert Street, Oldham, OL8 3QL

Hours: 37.5 per week, between 8.30am to 5.00 pm Monday to Friday (subject to business requirements)

Pay: F/T OTE 26K PA, basic plus commission, some PT roles available on a pro-rata basis

Confetti.co.uk is one of the UK’s biggest and best destination weddings website for everything to do with the big day; we are currently looking for target driven Media Sales Executives to join our team based in Oldham.
If you are a confident self-starter with experience in sales, ideally a background in advertising media, we would love to hear from you. You will need to be able to present information clearly by telephone and by email so excellent communication skills and are essential.

You will be tasked with selling our comprehensive marketing packages to wedding industry suppliers such as hotels, photographers, bands, etc based all around the UK and beyond. We are in a rapid growth phase and there are excellent career progression prospects.

As a Media Sales Executive you will have:

  • A friendly, outgoing and confident personality
  • A ‘can-do’, solution-finding attitude
  • Good communications skills, written and spoken
  • Good computer skills
  • Ability to present information at team and management meetings
  • An appetite for (well rewarded) hard work
  • Aptitude and willingness to learn new skills and systems
  • A desire to achieve personal performance targets
    The Media Sales executive role will include the following:
  • Hitting monthly, quarterly and annual personal sales targets (both new business and renewal) set by the company
  • Promoting and presenting our suite of products to wedding suppliers both for new business and retaining/upselling to existing customers
  • Building new relationships with leads and strengthening existing customer relationships
  • Generating new leads so that sufficient pipeline is maintained to hit targets
  • Keeping the sales CRM database and sales file updated
  • Ensuring that as the front line of client relations, that all client requests are dealt with in a professional and speedy manner
  • Ensuring that all clients are contacted and spoken to at least once a quarter
  • Ensuring that finance are actively supported in collecting payments from clients
  • Ensuring that all sales made have the appropriate completed paperwork and that handover to sales support/marketing/finance is completed correctly
  • Preparation and delivery of personal sales reports to management
  • Participation in regular sales meetings in an active manner and working alongside management in the Company to ensure attainment of common goals in respect of overall strategic growth of the business

In return we will give you:

  • A generous salary package, OTE 26K (17K basic) with uncapped earning potential
  • 22 days holiday per year
  • An enjoyable working environment with a great team of people
  • Excellent sales and new skills training
  • A flexible, friendly and fun workplace.
  • Excellent career development prospects

If you think you could be the right person please send your CV to initial interviews will be held on 29th of September 2011. This is the first of a two part interview process.