Sales Executive - French Speaking
- peterborough, cambridgeshire, PE1, United Kingdom
- Permanent·Hybrid
- Full time
Job Description
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Do you speak fluent French?
Do you have sales, retail or customer service experience?
Are you looking for a long term hybrid sales role, with a well-respected International company?
Are you able to commute to Peterborough in Cambridgeshire?
3 days office based - 2 days working from home
Our client will consider fluent French speakign candidates with retail, cusotmer service or sales experience.
If you have the confidence and passion for dealing with people, they can provide the rest!
The Role:
We are looking for a high-energy, resilient, and commercially hungry Inside Sales Executive to support sales growth for our client, across EMEA.
This is a phone-led sales role focused on lead generation, lead qualification, customer reactivation, win-back activity and CRM-led pipeline development. The role will support the VP Sales - EMEA by identifying opportunities, contacting prospects, re-engaging dormant customers and helping move leads through the sales pipeline.
This is not a passive sales support or admin role. We are looking for someone who is confident picking up the phone, comfortable being told no, and motivated to keep going until they create the opportunity. The right person will be thick-skinned, persistent, direct, proactive and able to work at pace.
Industry experience is not essential. We are more interested in attitude, energy, resilience and behaviour.
This role could suit someone with the following experience:
Retail, Customer Service, Inside sales, telesales, recruitment, a call centre, customer acquisition or lead generation.
The successful candidate will use phone, email, CRM, and LinkedIn to identify, qualify, and convert opportunities across key European markets. They will need to be proactive, organised, and confident speaking to customers and prospects across different countries, customer types, and levels of seniority.
Being fluent French is essential, Italian and/or German would also be a strong advantage.
This hybrid working role is based in Peterborough 3 days per week, with potential travel once per quarter to France to meet with clients.
More Detail:
- Generate and qualify new B2B sales leads across EMEA. xwwtmva
- Make regular outbound calls to prospects, existing customers, and dormant accounts.
- Use phone, email, CRM and LinkedIn to support lead
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