Graduate Trainee at Giant Beverages

Job Description

• Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers
• Visiting potential customers for new business
• Making accurate, rapid cost calculations
• Providing customers with quotations
• Negotiating the terms of an agreement and closing sales
• Gathering market and customer information
• Providing feedback on future buying trends
• Representing your organisation at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations
• Negotiating variations in price, delivery and specifications with your company's managers
• Advising on forthcoming product developments and discussing special promotions
• Liaising with suppliers to check on the progress of existing orders
• Checking quantities of goods on display and in stock
• Recording sales and order information and sending copies to the sales office
• Reviewing your own sales performance, against targets as you gain experience

Requirements
For you be a successful sales trainee you'll need to have:

• The ability and desire to sell
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong commercial awareness
• A confident and determined approach
• Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection
• A high degree of self-motivation and drive
• The ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• The capacity to flourish in a competitive environment