Marketing | Sales Experience Required
The purpose of the Marketing Service Assistant:
To maximize the effectiveness of the sales team by producing high-quality customers for our clients and working as part of a team to support and have personal accountability for driving successful sales and marketing goals.
The role provides a high level of sales support to customers by ensuring all queries are responded to in an efficient, professional and timely manner. You will help develop new and existing opportunities and commercial sales relations for our clients.
Major Tasks and Responsibilities as a Marketing Assistant:
Follow up with customers to drive uptake of promotional initiatives across all private and public sector
Identify opportunities and implement sales strategies
Proactively follow up leads generated
Use of initiative to identify and follow up opportunities with customers
Generate new business for our clients
Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to achieve sales objectives
Discuss commercial terms or promotional details to potential customers
Contribute to the team performance by sharing information and implementing best practices
Job Requirements
Employment Requirements
Knowledge, skills, and experience
Computer literate/keyboard skills
Highly desirable: 1-2 years working within a sales environment preferably
Excellent interpersonal skills
High degree of accuracy
Demonstrated ability to prioritize issues
Previous experience with customer databases ( ideally)
Intellectual qualities
Must be able to deal with technical product information
Ability to adapt procedures to a new and more effective way of working (in relation primarily to customer management and promotional activity support)
People skills
Ability to build strong working relationships (internal/external)
Excellent communication skills - verbal and written
Ability to persuade, influence and negotiate effectively at all levels
Disposition and personality
Determined
Professional communicator
Team worker
Reliable
Sociable
Type of person
Self-motivated
Achievement orientated
Ability to use own initiative
Ability to perform effectively when there are pressure peaks
Sets high standards and consistently achieves them
Please apply today!!
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Work location: Chicago, IL