Sales Executive

Job Title: Sales Executive ( Funding Specalist) Location: Bristol ( Hybrid Model) - 3 days a week in office. Salary: £30K + £20K commission potential My client is a leading player within the SME lending landscape. They hold a significant market share operating since 2018 with an innovative flexible solution which caters to SME businesses across the UK. Since 2018, they have built an industry leading C-Suite team leading them to several industry awards and a loyal and growing customer base. My client is a significant part of the growth in embedded finance across the UK. They currently work with large payment & tech processors who want to offer finance as an additional service to their SME customers. We created a brand new team in summer last year to focus soley on leads being generated from large payment partnerships. Due to the team success, we are now looking to add another individual into the team. Brilliant opportunity to join at a pivotal growth point with progression opportunities to manage satellite office / be crucial part of forming the partnership and along the way earn brilliant comms! As the Sales Executive your responsibilities and duties will include:

• Follow up on all warm qualified leads provided by the my clients top partner
• Liaising directly with the key stakeholders within the partner to educate them on lending appetite, documents required & process to ensure top quality leads are passed over
• Proactively working on all warm leads provided in a timely manner – ensuring all documentation is in place for a funding decision to be made
• Directly liaising with the business customers to qualify their lending needs & share positive lending offers
• Work cross collaboratively with credit & renewals internally to ensure a quick and smooth customer journey
• This is a new team so would love a proactive individual who can bring new ideas / process and policies to improve deal cycle
• You will be targeted on the conversion of leads passed across – They are high quality leads with a current conversion of 40% and with a team being built specifically for this product they are hoping to increase to 55%

• We are looking for a well-spoken, enthusiastic and motivated individual, who enjoys speaking with clients and fulfilling their funding needs.
• Ideally a candidate with a University degree
• 2+ yrs sales experience within the financial services sector ( Ideally Business Lending or Payment Processing sales )
• Ability to work autonomously & be proactive to create revenue
• Background or interest in commercial lending
• Happy to work on a phone based approach – 20 calls + a day
• Good relationship building skills