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We at Work Lyf Group are recruiting for a Direct Sales Executive for our client, who is a leading UK supplier of industrial components, tools, and consumables as they expand their sales team. We're looking for a personable, proactive Sales individuals who thrive on building genuine relationships and turning warm leads into loyal customers.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Engaging with warm leads and inbound inquiries across multiple sectors

Building rapport with prospects to understand their needs and offer tailored solutions

Using CRM data and performance metrics to optimise follow-ups and deepen customer engagement

Working closely with internal teams to ensure seamless onboarding and long-term satisfaction

What You’ll Bring:

• A natural ability to connect with people and build trust over the phone
• A consultative approach to sales, with a focus on listening and problem solving
• Confidence in using data to refine your outreach and improve conversion rates
• Experience in B2B sales or industrial supplies is a plus however, we value attitude over background

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• Join a respected name in the industrial sector with a loyal customer base
• Supportive team culture with ongoing training and mentorship
• Clear career progression and uncapped commission potential
• Make a real impact in a fast-growing business that values relationships over transactions

Salary: £26K base + £5K OTE
Hours: Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm

If you’re ready to turn warm leads into lasting partnerships, we’d love to hear from you.

Full-time |Basic package up to £27,360 (including travel & tech allowance) + uncapped commission | OTE £50k+
Must have a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

If youve got the gift of the gab and solid experience in Direct Field Sales, it might be time to choose something new.

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Direct Sales Executive

Please note: This is an On-Site role working at our Milton Keynes offices.

Do you hold needs based or solution based sales experience from either a b2b or high value b2c sales environment and eager to break into technology or fintech payment technology sales? viva.com is an acknowledged technology leader within payments technology and is looking for driven and resilient Direct Sales Executives to join our mitlon Keynes sales team, apply now and help us transform how businesses accept payments across Europe!

Why viva.com?

Viva.com is Europe’s first acquirer powering merchant payments acceptance across 24 countries and over 1,215 devices. In the UK, Viva.com operates as an E-Money Institution authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), offering an omnichannel payments platform that empowers businesses of all sizes to accept and manage payments — in-store, online, or on the go. 

Viva.com leads in Tap on Any Device technology, offers a high-conversion Smart Checkout for online payments, and provides a robust marketplace solution, enabling flexible, scalable, and future-proof payment journeys tailored to every business model. All technology is built in-house on Microsoft Azure, ensuring speed, security, and innovation at scale. 

Through its direct connections to local payment schemes and alternative payment methods, Viva.com supports 40+ payment options. Key features include Real-Time Settlement, Offline Payments, acceptance fees as low as 0% with the use of Viva.com’s business debit card, and Merchant Advance. 

With a growing ecosystem of 450+ tech partner-innovators, Viva.com is leading the shift to All-in-One business solutions, empowering merchants to adopt cutting-edge technology seamlessly and scale their business with ease. 

Learn more at viva.com

About the role:

As a member of the Direct Sales Team in viva.com, you will be responsible for converting both in-bound and self-sourced sales leads into viva.com merchants for card terminals and related merchant acquiring services. You will be providing a first-class sales service, aligned to customer needs and acting as a trusted partner.

More specifically, as a Direct Sales Executive, you will:

• Manage and organize diaries effectively
• Handle objections with resilience and persistence
• Adopt a results-driven approach with strong self-drive
• Work under pressure to achieve sales targets

Requirements

To be considered you should have:

• Previous experience in telesales, telemarketing, or face to face sales, ideally within fintech or payment solutions.
• Proven ability to meet sales targets and KPIs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organisational skills and self-motivation.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Proficiency with CRM systems and Microsoft Office.
• A positive, resilient attitude and the ability to handle rejection.

Desirable:

• Ability to understand, demonstrate and communicate web-based software products

• Ability to deal with a diverse client base

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• Monthly paid bonus scheme
• Private medical health insurance
• Pension
• 25 days holiday
• Office gym (Milton Keynes office only)
• We work in an open, transparent working environment that actively promotes ingenuity and team work
• You will be fully trained and continuously supported
• Working in an international fin-tech company with a large cultural diversity
• A fast paced and high energy environment
• Collaborating with motivated and dynamic colleagues
• Work with the latest in payments acquiring technology
• Opportunity to grow progressively in your domain

Junior Direct Sales Executive

Leatherhead, Surrey

Why work for us?

Premium Credit is the leading provider of insurance premium finance and a range of annually charged services, including tax, regulatory and accountancy fees, sports season tickets, memberships and school fees in the UK and Ireland. We’re a multi award winning business lending more than £5.5 billion to over 2.9 million customers through a network of almost three thousand partners- and growing.

Recently certified as a Great Place to Work, we’re a successful business with a Trustpilot rating of 4.5, a Net Promoter Score of +78, a Glassdoor rating of 4.3 and a Silver Sustainability medal.

Our direct sales team are responsible for ensuring profitable growth through a professional, direct sales service to new and existing customers, identifying opportunities to cross sell services that will meet their needs.

To be successful in this team you’ll need to be a confident communicator and excel at building rapport and providing information in an informative and understandable way.  You’ll deliver outbound telephone sales campaigns and answer incoming calls, to meet lending targets

• Competitive salary and incentive plan
• A workplace pension scheme
• Hybrid working, with collaborative days in our Leatherhead office
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), with options to purchase and sell up to 5 days holiday per year (pro rata)
• Private health and dental cover
• Support and investment in your personal development
• 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders

The Role

This is an exciting time of growth for us, and we’re hiring additional Junior Direct Sales Executives to help us continue this success. This is a great opportunity to develop a varied and rewarding career with a company that invests in, recognises and rewards its people.

Reporting to the Senior Direct Sales Executive, you will provide an outbound telesales function to targeted potential new customers as well as existing customers.

You will also:

- Resolve any actions arising from your customer contact

- Maintain a daily customer tracker

- Complete agreed action plans to call customers with clear, concise and accurate information regarding our products and services

- Communicate our brand identity and values

- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships across the company

Who we’re looking for

If you’re an individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, able to work collaboratively with others and are looking to make a difference, this is a brilliant opportunity to start your career with our sector-leading company. At Premium Credit, you’ll be supported to develop and expand your skills, knowledge and experience.

To be successful as our Junior Direct Sales Executive, you’ll have a natural ability to engage and develop rapport along a willingness to develop your knowledge and skills within the role.  You will need to be confident in making outbound calls, and willing to accept feedback and coaching to improve your performance.

You are;

- Tenacious, driven and target focussed

- Highly organised and able to manage and prioritise your workload

- Resilient

- Curious and willing to develop your knowledge of products and services

We’re committed to providing reasonable adjustments or accommodations for applicants, so if you need assistance or support during the recruitment process, please let us know on the application form or by sending an email to (url removed)

If you are made an offer of employment you will be required to prove your eligibility to work in the UK before you start work. You must reside in the UK from the start date of this role; unfortunately we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

To ensure you can work from home efficiently you will be asked to provide your internet speed at the application stage.

Premium Credit are an equal opportunities employer with a strong and passionate commitment to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in the workplace. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. We are open to part-time working and job share.

By submitting your application, you agree that Premium Credit may collect your personal data for recruiting and related purposes. To view our Privacy Notice please go to: (url removed)>

All postholders will be subject to appropriate pre-employment vetting procedures and a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check prior to appointment.

So, if role appeals to you and you’re looking to join an industry-leading organisation, please apply. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply? And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair. We look forward to hearing from you.

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we identify a number of suitable candidates. All applicants will be advised if the vacancy closes early.

We are not engaging agency support for this role and respectfully ask that agencies do not submit unsolicited candidate details to Premium Credit Limited in relation to this role.

insightsoftware is a global provider of comprehensive solutions for the Office of the CFO. We believe an actionable business strategy begins and ends with accessible financial data. With solutions across financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, and operations, we transform how teams operate, empowering leaders to make timely and informed decisions. With data at the heart of everything we do, insightsoftware enables automated processes, delivers trusted insights, boosts predictability, and increases productivity. Learn more at insightsoftware.com

Account Executive to sell our planning, budgeting and visualisation propositions for the Power BI software to new logos in EMEA.

The role will suit an experienced logo-hunter who excels in fast-paced environments and is looking for stimulating challenges and real career prospects in a rapidly expanding, high performance business.

insightsoftware is a market innovator that helps enterprises transform business data into continuous intelligence and actionable insights, thus unlocking true data value and ensuring swifter decision-making.

The Account Executive sells Power ON that transforms Power BI into a comprehensive planning and data collection solution.

The Account Executive will qualify, manage, and close new sales via inbound & outbound initiatives, collaborate with colleagues to develop proof of concept etc, execute each phase of the complex sales cycle to the highest professional standards and help evolve our Go-To-Market strategy.

The company has significant ambition and provides exceptional career opportunities. If you’ve ever wondered what you’re truly capable of, there’s no better place to find out!

• Account Executive who proven experience of winning new logos in ground breaking software sales
• Experience selling Business Intelligence to the office of the COO
• Experience owning a personal revenue quota presenting attainment to goal in their CV
• High level of motivation, engaging presence, rapid learner and the drive and adaptability to succeed in a fast-paced, high-performance, and rapidly evolving environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and a consultative approach to diagnose customer’s needs.
  
  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located . **

insightsoftware About Us: Hear From Our Team - InsightSoftware (wistia.com)

Background checks are required for employment with insightsoftware, where permitted by country, state/province.

At insightsoftware, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located . **

insightsoftware About Us: Hear From Our Team - InsightSoftware (wistia.com)

Background checks are required for employment with insightsoftware, where permitted by country, state/province.

At insightsoftware, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

insightsoftware is a global provider of comprehensive solutions for the Office of the CFO. We believe an actionable business strategy begins and ends with accessible financial data. With solutions across financial planning and analysis (FP&A), accounting, and operations, we transform how teams operate, empowering leaders to make timely and informed decisions. With data at the heart of everything we do, insightsoftware enables automated processes, delivers trusted insights, boosts predictability, and increases productivity. Learn more at insightsoftware.com

Account Executive to sell our planning, budgeting and visualisation propositions for the Power BI software to new logos in EMEA.

The role will suit an experienced logo-hunter who excels in fast-paced environments and is looking for stimulating challenges and real career prospects in a rapidly expanding, high performance business.

insightsoftware is a market innovator that helps enterprises transform business data into continuous intelligence and actionable insights, thus unlocking true data value and ensuring swifter decision-making.

The Account Executive sells Power ON that transforms Power BI into a comprehensive planning and data collection solution.

The Account Executive will qualify, manage, and close new sales via inbound & outbound initiatives, collaborate with colleagues to develop proof of concept etc, execute each phase of the complex sales cycle to the highest professional standards and help evolve our Go-To-Market strategy.

The company has significant ambition and provides exceptional career opportunities. If you’ve ever wondered what you’re truly capable of, there’s no better place to find out!

• Account Executive who proven experience of winning new logos in ground breaking software sales
• Experience selling Business Intelligence to the office of the COO
• Experience owning a personal revenue quota presenting attainment to goal in their CV
• High level of motivation, engaging presence, rapid learner and the drive and adaptability to succeed in a fast-paced, high-performance, and rapidly evolving environment.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and a consultative approach to diagnose customer’s needs.
  
  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located . **

insightsoftware About Us: Hear From Our Team - InsightSoftware (wistia.com)

Background checks are required for employment with insightsoftware, where permitted by country, state/province.

At insightsoftware, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located . **

insightsoftware About Us: Hear From Our Team - InsightSoftware (wistia.com)

Background checks are required for employment with insightsoftware, where permitted by country, state/province.

At insightsoftware, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Our mission and where you fit in

At Employment Hero, we’re an ambitious bunch of people on a mission to make employment easier and more valuable for everyone. 

Since our inception in 2014, we've had some pretty impressive growth (100% YoY), now serving 300,000 businesses globally, with 2 million+ users on the platform, reaching unicorn status in 2022 - and we have no plans to slow down. 

There’s never been a more exciting time to join one of the fastest-growing SaaS unicorns, so let’s see if we could be a match!

What might your days look like 

We're a team of global innovators, who cherish diverse perspectives that fuel our mission; to simplify the world of work for SMBs worldwide.

As the Account Executive, you will be focused on winning new business in the SME market, speaking to C-level and HR Execs across a wide range of business verticals. You will pitch, demo, present and close deals end-to-end, with the majority (70%) of your leads coming from our energetic SDR team. This being said, a drive to generate your own leads and ability to manage your own sales pipeline is a must.

Want to know more about this role and working as part of the Employment Hero sales team? Have a look at this video: 

As an Account Executive, you'll be responsible for:

• Business development - you will hunt new business with a consultative approach
• Managing a sales cycle from start to finish - prospect, pitch, demo, present, close
• Confidently presenting to C-suite executives and be able to negotiate appropriately
• Working closely with the SDR Team to qualify opportunities and close deals
• Maintaining a robust pipeline to meet your assigned monthly quota
• Using Salesforce CRM to ensure customer data is correct and up-to-date

What will you bring

• Experience in B2B sales, preferably tech/SaaS
• Experience running an end-to-end sales process (closing deals)
• Confident in a fast-paced, high-volume sales environment
• Proven track record of success in sales
• Hungry, curious, tenacious & a team player - We Are One Team
• You are ambitious - there is a huge opportunity for growth as we love to promote from within!

Experience is important, but for us the biggest measure of success is people who can live and breathe our values. Show us what you can bring to the table, and we’ll empower you to let your talents shine.

Values we look for:

• Structured: maintains a critical view on processes and is ready to define new ways of working and refine existing ones; highly organised.
• Driven: a self-starter who drives their own workload and takes the initiative to challenge themselves and others.
• Visionary: acts as the leader of an idea and rallies people; focused on the long-term and the big picture.
• Articulate: able to manage diverse stakeholders, lead a constructive debate, and see both sides of an argument.
• Trusting: lets others get on with work in their area of expertise; steps in only when needed.
• Curious: solves problems using evidence and gets to the right answer quickly; questions the status quo but leaves ego at the door.

Life at Employment Hero 

Remote-first principles

At Employment Hero, we're not just working remotely; we're integrating flexibility and global reach into the heart of our daily operations. 

We also recognise the value of face-to-face connection, and organise local and global gatherings throughout the year to celebrate our wins and make meaningful connections with our colleagues.

Global Gathering | GG22 Phuket

Work your way

Every hero has unique powers. Bound by a common purpose and trust, we encourage each other to work in ways that allow us to bring our best selves to work.

Life at Employment Hero | Your best career move, ever

We’ve got your back

Whether you’re a seasoned remote-first pro, or a first-timer, you’re in good company. With 900+ heroes globally, team support and collaboration is at your fingertips.

But don’t just take it from us, here’s a quote from one of our AU heroes: 

“Working for a company that has purpose and meaning is felt throughout the entire business. No one turns up to work just to get paid - we turn up to work because we care and take pride in what we do, but we also know how to create balance and flexibility in the important things in our life, such as family, friends and leading a lifestyle consistent with our values.”

Plus you’ll get to enjoy a number of great perks, including: 

• Remote-first and flexible working arrangements
• A generous budget to spend on setting up your home office (if you need a desk, chair, or screen? We’ve got you covered!)
• We set you up for success with the latest and greatest hardware, tools and tech
• Learning and development (including an external study policy, live monthly professional development classrooms, and premium online learning content!)
• Reward and recognition programs - because great work should be recognised and rewarded
• Including Lightning Award for delivering quality work at speed and Values Champion Awards
• Swag app cashback offers and discounts on hundreds of your favourite brands and products
• Self, health, wealth and happiness programs
• Social events and team celebrations
• Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero
• Annual Global Gathering to get to know your global colleagues - so far we’ve been to Thailand, Vietnam and are excited to meet in Bali in September 2024

We also recognise that the same recruitment process doesn’t fit all, so should you require any accommodations or adjustments, simply let us know.

Are we a match? 

Once your application is in, you can expect these next steps in your interview journey with us:

• Recruiter first call
• Hiring Manager chat
• Technical Roleplay
• Final chat with Managing Director, UK

Not exactly the right fit for you?

• If you’re excited about Employment Hero, but this role is not the one for you, we encourage you to explore our careers page, packed with many more great opportunities. 
• Know someone who would be a great fit? Feel free to share the role with your network!

Note to recruiters: Employment Hero has a dedicated in-house recruitment team who are focused on finding the very best talent for our organisation and we kindly request that recruiters do not contact us regarding assisting with our job vacancies. While we appreciate your interest and expertise, we have everything we need in-house to attract and hire the right candidates for our team. Thank you.

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