Sales Executive - German Speaking

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Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
Hybrid
Mid level
Logistics • Transportation
The Role
Convert inbound enquiries into confirmed bookings by managing a high-volume pipeline, running live reverse auctions between suppliers, negotiating to protect margin, upselling relevant services, and tracking daily activity to hit targets.
Summary Generated by Built In

Got Drive? Join AnyVan as we make moving anything, anywhere miles better and build a career that moves just as fast.


Back in 2009, our CEO Angus saw half-empty vans everywhere and knew there had to be a better way! That's how AnyVan began. He set out to create the world's most efficient logistics technology and help halve the number of wasted miles by filling those empty vans.


Since then we've become the nation's favourite way to move, with over 150k five-star reviews and 5 million customers in the UK and Europe. Our team of 400 AnyVanners across London, Cape Town and Bogota is proving that moving doesn't have to cost the earth by helping save 8,520 tonnes of Carbon each year.

Big Energy. Big Deals. Big Paydays.

Four our reverse auction sales executives at At AnyVan, sales isn’t “answer the phone and take the order.” It’s where we win customers, build trust fast, and convert with discipline in real time.

We’re hiring a Reverse Auction Sales Executive who doesn’t hide behind scripts, slow follow-ups, or “I’ll email you a quote.” This is a fast-paced, high-volume, commercial role for someone who thrives on pace, pressure, and negotiation, turning warm demand into booked revenue by running live competition between suppliers.

You’ll be accountable for converting inbound enquiries into confirmed bookings through speed, negotiation, pipeline ownership, and commercial judgement every day.


What you'll be doing:

  • Own your desk like a business: You’ll manage your pipeline end-to-end response time, follow-ups, conversion, margin, and booked revenue.

  • Move fast on warm inbound leads: Contact customers within minutes, control the call, qualify quickly, and keep momentum high.

  • Run live reverse auctions: Engage multiple transport partners to compete for the job and secure the best viable rate.

  • Negotiate with confidence: Balance customer value and supplier pricing while protecting margin and booking quality.

  • Convert with discipline: Drive every enquiry to a clear outcome, booked, timed follow-up, or closed out properly.

  • Upsell value where it matters: Add services that genuinely improve the customer outcome and increase booking value.

  • Track your numbers daily: You’ll manage activity → conversion → revenue and know exactly what lever to pull to win more.

You'll thrive here if you:

  • Love pressure and do your best work when targets are tough

  • Obsess over speed → negotiation → conversion, and know how to win in each moment

  • Can juggle multiple live deals without dropping detail or standards

  • Bring energy and ownership, you don’t need chasing

  • Treat sales like a competitive sport: disciplined, daily, relentless

  • Enjoy commercial problem-solving and protecting margin while winning customers

This is NOT:

  • A call centre “take the order” role

  • A slow sales cycle where you wait days for decisions

  • Role for someone who avoids negotiation or feels uncomfortable talking about money

  • A place to hide behind “the customer ghosted” you own follow-up and urgency

  • For you if you need to be micromanaged to stay sharp on pace, pipeline, and targets

  • A discount-first environment, we win with speed, value, and control

What you'll bring:

  • Proven success in a high-performance, target-driven sales environment

  • Strong negotiation ability and commercial instinct (margin mindset)

  • You’re a strong communicator who can build rapport quickly.

  • Comfort handling objections, controlling calls, and closing confidently

  • Excellent pipeline discipline and follow-up execution

  • You bring enthusiasm, resilience, and the hunger to succeed.

  • You pay attention to detail and learn fast.

  • You thrive in a buzzing, supportive sales floor.

  • You speak and write both German and English fluently.

Bonus points: experience in logistics/freight brokerage, 360° recruitment, estate agency, car sales, insurance broking, or marketplace businesses.

Why AnyVan?

We’re not your average sales floor; we’re a fast-scaling online marketplace across Europe, which means your career can move as quickly as your numbers do. We reward performance, not just presence, and back your growth with hands-on coaching, recognition, and benefits that make the ride worth it.

We operate at pace:

  • Priorities change quickly

  • High volume, live deals all day

  • Constant improvement in scripts, processes, and standards

  • Comfort with ambiguity and constant change is essential.

What We Offer:

💰 Competitive Salary - Great base + Uncapped Commission

🌴 Generous Time Off - 20 days annual leave

💪 Health & Wellbeing - ZAR1000 pr month towards cover with Momentum/Discovery

📈 Future Ready - 5% you, 5% us

🚲 Easy Travel - Free parking or transport home after 7pm

Daily Perks - In-house barista coffee, free breakfast every day

🎉 Culture & Community - Weekly drinks, fun socials, and rewards that take you places (literally - last winners hit the Alps)

🚀 Career Growth - Join a disruptive technology leader and fast forward your career move

Our company values are:

  • Have fun, get it done

  • Progress over perfection

  • One team thinking big

You can find out more about our culture here:

https://www.anyvan.com/careers

DE&I

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every individual has the opportunity to thrive. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to be part of our mission and contribute to our vibrant culture.

Skills Required

  • Proven success in a high-performance, target-driven sales environment
  • Strong negotiation ability and commercial instinct (margin mindset)
  • Fluent written and spoken German and English
  • Excellent pipeline discipline, follow-up execution, and conversion focus
  • Comfort handling objections, controlling calls, and closing confidently
  • Ability to work fast under pressure on a busy sales floor
  • Attention to detail, resilience, enthusiasm, and ability to learn quickly
  • Experience running live supplier auctions or managing competitive supplier processes
  • Experience in logistics, freight brokerage, recruitment, estate agency, car sales, insurance broking, or marketplaces
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The Company
London
875 Employees
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

AnyVan makes moving anything easier, more affordable and greener for everyone. Our sole objective is to use technology and innovation to improve the efficiency and experience of the entire delivery and moving process. With over 2.8 million customers across the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Ireland since launch over a decade ago, such work has made us the largest, fastest growing tech company in the logistics industry. We develop and apply leading technologies to manage supply and demand. This allows us to facilitate the most efficient journeys (routes, timings and costs) for transport providers, consumers and many recognised household brands, including TK Maxx, UniDays, Dunelm, Santander and Hunters. Sustainability is a core part of AnyVan’s mission. Using technology to help reduce environmental impact has always been at the top of our agenda. We’re proud to say we’ve achieved carbon-neutral status on all our transport moves, and we won’t stop here. In January 2022, Vitruvian partners invested £125m to acquire a majority stake in the business and provide growth capital to support our expansion, making the largest ever growth capital investment into a UK-based logistics marketplace and reinforcing our position as the UK market leader.

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