Account Executive

We’re on a mission to become the essential tool for anyone wanting to work with high growth businesses – which, as it turns out, is quite a lot of people! Selling to one industry can be challenging enough, but gets a bit ‘samey’ after a while. Now imagine selling to over 20. We need someone to help us grab the £ millions of untapped value left in these industries. This is the most exciting (and challenging part of this role), so if that's right up your street, read on!

👋 About us

We’re a market leading tech company that provides data on the fastest growing companies in the UK. ​​We’re at a pretty exciting stage right now—we’ve built a profitable, high-growth business, with 120+ employees and an enviable client list. But we’re not done yet. We’re on a mission to become a global data company that helps every organisation discover and work better with ambitious, high-growth companies.

🥖 The Role

Our New Business team helps potential clients see the value of our platform and works alongside our Marketing & Subscriber Growth teams to bring in the cash. 

Once you’re an expert on our platform, your day to day responsibilities will include: 

📎 Managing the sales pipeline: Planning & delivering a strategic and successful sales pipeline from start to finish

🔈 Outreach: Finding & contacting new clients through a variety of channels, thinking creatively and tactfully about your approach. 

🖥️ Running demos: Delivering online demos with potential clients, and making it highly personalised to each client use case

🏆 Improving processes: Actively finding ways to improve your own process as well as suggesting ways to improve the efficiency of the wider team

 🫵 About you 

You should be a University Graduate with strong academics (ABB or above at A Level, or equivalent) and at least 1 year of sales experience within a professional environment. Whether it's internships, a placement year, client-facing work or even a full end-to-end sales process, we'd love to hear from you!

Ideally, you’ll be: 

• Proactive/ambitious: You love suggesting ways to do things better & are driven by your targets and your own personal growth!
• A natural people-person: A great listener, emotionally intelligent, and great at getting to know all different personalities
• Quick thinker: You pick things up fast, and you’re able to remain calm under pressure 
• Resilient: You’re able to bounce back after a set-back and proactively learn from your mistakes

🕊Our offer

We're offering a competitive starting salary. 

On top of this, we invest a lot in keeping our people happy and healthy! So as well as that, you'll also get:

🎓 Professional development: Ongoing training and development, and free books

🍰 A stake in the company: Substantial options scheme, so you can share in the growth that you help create

💻 The latest tech: We’ll provide you with all the tech you need to be productive (including a Mac!), whether you’re in the office or working from home

🌲 Health and wellness: Free counselling, wellbeing baskets, and healthy snacks

🎉 Events: Drinks every Friday, interesting talks from industry experts, company-wide parties and away days, plus regular team socials

🚄 Subsidised travel: Rail season ticket loan, free railcards, and a cycle to work scheme

If you want to read more about our benefits, our company culture, or our hybrid working policy, please check out these pages.

Ticking all the boxes?

📤Apply!

To apply please submit:

• Your updated CV 
• Answers to a couple of simple screening questions below

Please note that applications with generic answers to these questions will be automatically rejected.