Graduate Sports Sales Opportunity

Sector: Sports

Location: Portsmouth

Salary: 28-34k + Uncapped Commission

Why Join us?

We are looking for entry level/ recent graduates to join our client in their 2024 Sales Academy in their Portsmouth Office and be a part of our fast-growing success story across Europe.

Our client is a technology driven provider within the sports industry delivering to clients who mirror our belief in technology innovation in sport. Businesses who are investing in their technology to disrupt, grow or transform.

They pride themselves on being unique as we continue to disrupt and innovate within our industry by attacking status quo and doing things deliberately differently through our data first strategy. We invest heavily in our front-to-back technology, ensuring it is cutting-edge and drives performance. Our intention is to partner with clients of the exact same mindset, who are disruptive, innovative, want to be different and who are also investing heavily in their technology to pioneer products and services within their industry.

Pushing themselves every day to achieve success for their clients through our quality, our impact and our persistence. They obsess over product, not price.

The Role:

As a sales associate you will be inducted into the business training programme and introduced to all areas of the business. You will be assessed whilst training to ensure you are aligned to the most relevant and fit for purpose business to begin your career journey. They take extreme care in the process of ensuring your team alignment is exactly right for your skills and potential in the industry, recognising the nuances each houses in its demands and expectations.

What will you be doing:

• You will begin in our sales academy which will teach you the essential tools to become a high performing SDR.
• You will be assigned into a dedicated skill vertical alongside a business area that best fits your skill set and gives the best possible potential for success
• Once in your designated team you will continue to be nurtured and trained rigorously throughout your first 18 months in preparation for the high-profile community of clients they work with
• You will be trained to develop client relationships and how to interact with a community of clients to understand their business challenges and how to partner with them to define a solution
• You will become an expert in the sports tech area. The firm will help you gain an expert level of subject matter knowledge within your market, and encourage you to proactively share insight, intel and use your knowledge to strengthen your relationships with your network

Requirements

• A reflection of the company's core values in your level of ambition, honesty and respect for diversity
• A recent graduate or experienced in high performing sales environment
• Inquisitive, curious and commercially astute
• Excited by sports and technology and the role data can play in forging the success of organisations and industry
• Energetic, enthusiastic and able to deliver impeccable customer service
• Brilliant communication skills and the ability to quickly build rapport
• Excellent verbal and written skills

Benefits

• Other benefits: Competitive basic salary with On Target Earnings of £70,000 in Year 1
• Quarterly reward trips for high-achievers to Dubai - Miami - Val d'Isère - Ibiza
• Rolex targets for junior consultants
• Monthly Lunch clubs at Michelin star restaurants
• Free Gym membership and subsidised commute plans
• Wellness retreat budget
• Smoothie Station