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Responsible for managing a team, you will need to show:
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Leadership, encouragement, motivation, and delegation to ensure your teams’ success
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Ongoing team member mentoring & development (of Account Manager), to ensure targets are being met & clients are delighted
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Regular team meetings, maintaining clear communication & direction
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Encourage a culture of recognition and reward
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Regular updates to the Sales Director on your team’s progress, opportunities & challenges – initially the role will be about bringing customers onboard, as well as receiving several smaller / ad hoc accounts for development.
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Driving optimum sales & margin performance and customer retention from your team
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You are a key point of contact for your teams’ clients and are expected to be pro-active in your approach to keeping clients updated and informed, as mailing campaigns go through the factory and are despatched.
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Liaising with the Finance team to review estimated sales values & margins vs actuals and to implement any necessary changes to ensure profitable account retention.
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To produce quotations and win orders (new and existing customers) in line with, or above, the company’s gross profit target
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Consulting with your client services team members as well as the data processing team, the print team & the operations team, to ensure each mailing goes out on time in full and with 100% accuracy.
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Liaising with the Finance Team to remain aware of client credit limits and timely payment of invoices.
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You & your client services team are responsible for managing each print.mail.post order from quotation to invoice. Client invoices are to be raised within 48 hours of mailing despatch, or, when raising ‘pro-forma’ invoices for new business accounts and postage, within 24 hours of order confirmation
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Initiative-taking approach to automating work processes & procedures, identifying areas of improvement where necessary, to enhance Client experience & the businesses performance overall.
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Driving optimum sales & gross margin performance of your team, through elevated levels of client retention & development and a pro-active approach to new business
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Regular pro-active contact with existing and occasional clients, to develop spend, frequency of use and profitability of the account
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To seek to maximise postage gross profit margin by exploring multiple methods to reducing buying-in costs – without impacting delivery times
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To seek to maximise outsourced print management gross profit margin, by exploring all methods of reducing buying-in costs – without impacting quality
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Focusing on exemplary customer service and always maintaining a good rapport with clients – even when under pressure, or when things, on occasion, do go wrong
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All incoming new business enquiries are shared amongst our Account Directors, and they are to be managed and initially spoken to by you to establish their requirements. You are to professionally introduce the business and offer the best solution to their needs.