Sales Executive

All About Us

From Henry Barrett starting the business in 1866, Barrett Steel has provided over 150 years of a hands-on customer service approach, a mindset that sets us apart from our competitors. A leading steel stock holding business, Barrett Steel has 43 companies within the group employing 1100 employees across 25+ locations in the UK with their own distribution fleet.

All About the Role

Barrett Steel Scotland have a great new opportunity for a Sales Executive in their team, encompassing the internal and external sales elements.

Specific tasks include:

• Sourcing new sales opportunities through inbound lead follow-up and outbound cold calls, emails and marketing campaigns.
• Build partnering relationships to understand customer needs and requirements.
• Close sales and achieve monthly targets.
• Maintain and expand your database of prospects.
• Maximise processing sales by continually expanding orders and up selling on all incoming and outgoing.
• Day to day account management including the raising of quotations/orders.
• Ensure that all quotes are followed up and actioned where necessary.
• Maintain an agreed level of pro-active telephone contact with both existing and prospective customers.
• To own and resolve customer service issues in order to assist the company with continuous improvements.
• To maintain customer account details to ensure up to date contact, delivery and unloading information is on file and can exceed our customers’ expectations on customer service.

We offer you

• Competitive Salary, 21 days holiday + bank holidays, Bonus potential, Pension

All About You

You’ll have the passion, drive and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way.

Essential Skills for the role: 

• Demonstrates a proactive attitude and approach, generate leads and creates new business. opportunities for themselves.
• Thrives off working to targets and KPI’s

• Be competent with a high volume of phone activity.
• Be able to demonstrate excellent negotiation skills.
• Ability to build, develop & maintain relationships over the phone and face to face delivering an exceptional customer experience.

How it feels to work for us

We provide a fantastic opportunity to work within a forward-thinking organisation that is respected as the UK’s leading independent steel stockholder. Our people are the driving force behind Barrett Steel and we seek individuals who are passionate, hard-working, ambitious and demonstrate a ‘can-do’ attitude to help us build and develop the business. Barrett Steel encourages innovative thinking and has an open door for people to lead and influence change.