As a trainee sales executives or representative, selling products and services. You'll be responsible for developing existing customer relationships and finding new customers.
At first under supervision of senior staff, your specific duties are likely to include:
- 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
- Representing your organisation at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations
- 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
