Role: Vehicles Account Specialist
Salary: £25,000pa
Location: Hybrid/Kings Hill, Kent

Why Join CSG?

CSG is striving to be recognised as the global leader in Education and Public Sector services, currently operating in 86 countries, with 1,800 staff across 30 trading brands, providing expertise ranging from: HR Services, IT Services, Energy, Education Resources, Procurement and many more. Currently growing at a rate of 25% each year, CSG has expanded via an innovative buy and build model delivering an important mix of organic growth, acquisitions and strategic joint venture partnerships. Therefore, it is an exciting and interesting time to join a growing organisation and be part of shaping the future of CSG.

What You’ll Bring:

Are you a self-motivated and pro-active individual with a proven track record of increasing revenue through generation of leads? Procurement Services are currently looking for an Account Specialist to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity for a confident individual with a customer focused mindset and previous experience within a sales role, that thrives in a fast paced work environment.

As an Account Specialist you will manage a portfolio of accounts. Specifically contacting current and new customers using available data and your own initiative to grow business opportunities within our Fleet services offering.

What You’ll Achieve:

As Account Specialist you will:

• Build relationships with your customers to encourage retention and loyalty, ensuring regular contact offering an excellent and efficient service
• Grow and sustain a reliable pipeline of contract opportunities, for both existing and new customers
• Work collaboratively with our internal and external stakeholders to achieve your annual business and growth targets, through pipeline and closure of sales
• Take ownership of queries, investigating and resolving these by liaising with customers and suppliers
• Make outbound and receive inbound calls to meet our KPIs

What we Offer:

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday to celebrate as you wish
• Access to a generous discount scheme, including retail and gym memberships
• Life assurance coverage
• Health cash plan initiative
• Companywide events

What We Require:

• Demonstrable experience of working within a sales environment
• Knowledge of the sales process and the application of this leading to sales generation
• Ability to prioritise and meet and exceed targets that are set for you individually and as part of a team
• Good organisational, planning and negotiation skills
• Confident and clear telephone manner ensuring you are communicating effectively with customers and suppliers
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build solid working relationships

About Commercial Services Group

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is the largest, local authority-owned trading company (LATCO) in the UK, wholly owned by Kent County Council. CSG generates over £800m in revenue per annum and provides services to over 16,000 education and public sector customers globally.

About Procurement Services

We are a market-leading procurement services business, and our focus is on providing compliant routes for the UK public sector to procure products and services from local, national and global suppliers.

Working across all public sector verticals, our teams support buyers from local authorities, central government bodies, NHS trusts, educational establishments and many others, in identifying their procurement needs and offering a compliant framework to deliver on their requirements.