Sales Executive
Sell products or services to customers, building relationships and achieving sales targets.
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- What's it like to be a Sales Executive?
- Latest Sales Executive jobs
- Top skills and experience for Sales Executives
- Sales Executive role reviews
What's it like to be a Sales Executive?
A Sales Executive identifies business opportunities, builds customer relationships, and sells products or services to clients to achieve sales targets. They develop sales strategies, pitch products or services to new clients, and maintain a good working relationship with new contacts. This role requires excellent communication and negotiation skills, and often involves meeting with clients in person.
Tasks and duties
- Grow and nurture relationships with current and new clients.
- Engage with other external stakeholders and service providers to promote the company's solutions and services.
- Conduct face to face / online meetings and sales presentations.
- Proactively follow-up active leads to maintain a strong sales pipeline and conversion rate.
- Complete sales and marketing administrative tasks.
- Prepare accurate documents including proposals, contracts, invoices and event orders.
- Ensure sales targets are being met.
- Maintain a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Sales Executive employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Sales
Negotiation
Sales Process
CRM Software
Automotive Sales
Results Focused
Relationship Building
Communication Skills
Account Management
Relationship Management
Product Knowledge
Sales Cold Calls
Demand Generation
B2B Sales
Solution Selling
Customer Interaction
Business Opportunity
Prospecting
Trade Shows
Customer Service
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Latest Sales Executive reviews
Dec 2023
I have constantly achieved as well as exceeded challenging sales target.
Reviewer's QualificationDiploma of Higher Education Studies
Experience10+ years
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationRetail & Consumer Products
The good thingsfast learn from previous mistake,smart and hard worker,motivational activity.
The challengesgrowth of business .maintain a good relation between the stuff.
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Mar 2024
Some great clients, but very challenging
Experience1 – 4 years
Organisation sizeSmall (1-19 employees)
SpecialisationSales
The good thingsGreat meeting new people and introducing them to what we have available
The challengesChallenges include client asking for quotes then avoiding my calls, some people can be very blunt if not interested. Having an ineffective management team that failed to properly support me and not gi...
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