The Trainee Sales Executive - Modernisation Solutions works with prospective new KONE customers (LIO), proactively targeting elevator modernisation opportunities outside KONE’s current service portfolio (LIS).
You will specifically focus on generating orders for elevator modernisation and for competitor’s products where KONE already has a KONE lifts modernisation industrialized solution in place. It is also a requirement of this role to focus on KONE’s range of digital solutions.
This role will be based out of our Bristol office and will require 4 days in the office and 1 day working from home.
Key responsibilities:
Customer Relationship Management
- Proactively develops and creates customer relationships in your area of responsibility
- Accountable for developing KONE position within your customer base or market area
- Creating and communicating leads and sales opportunities for entire KONE sales team (e.g. cross-selling)
- Ensures customer satisfaction and solves complaints with the rest of KONE team
- Documents the customer and contact information, maintains customer data within CRM system (Salesforce)
Sell
- Proactively generates KONE Upgrade modernisation opportunities from outside current customer base (existing service portfolio)
- Handles RFQs
- Is accountable for leads, opportunities, orders and contracts to meet the sales budget and pricing targets
- Demonstrates a solution selling mindset and sales strategy in ensuring customer’s needs are matched with KONE’s tendered value proposition
- Is responsible for pricing using the approved tendering tools, and for optimizing prices and discounts within your authority limits
- Validates that the contents of the contract are in line with KONE’s contract absolutes
- Maintains accurate and full detailed CRM records of opportunities, tasks and visits (sales funnel management)
- Responsible for timely and accurate reporting in CRM
- Responsible for gathering relevant market and competitor data and feeding back findings to the business
- Drives execution of your individual sales plan
Professional requirements:
- Fully understands and utilizes all sales processes within day-to-day working week
- Demonstrates customer service mindset
- Numbers and facts (data) drive actions
- Is able to bring across customer needs, add value to customers’ businesses by offering solutions that meet their needs and can use value-based pricing to guarantee healthy margins
- Comfortable and excited about the opportunities that digital solutions bring.
- Accustomed to using different sales tools
Skills & experiences:
- Sales experience in a similar industry or role is essential (expectation is for two years minimum)
- Experience in proactively managing customer service solutions is essential
- Experience and understanding of value selling strategies is essential
- Good communication skills in both written and spoken English
- Good understanding of digital skills and mindset
- A bachelor’s degree in an associated field is preferential
(LIO) - lifts in operations
(LIS) - Lifts in service
Please ensure that a current updated CV is attached
What KONE can offer:
We offer a competitive salary, 25 days holiday and 8 additional Bank Holidays, 1 volunteering day, Pension Scheme, Development opportunities and development reviews to help you achieve your professional goals. Endless support from experienced leaders within the lift and escalator industry, Quarterly Commission, Dental Insurance, Private Medical Plan, GymFlexi Membership, . Kone Discounts, 24/7 GP Support & Wellbeing Access and hybrid working.
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/
Skills Required
- Sales experience in a similar industry or role
- Experience in proactively managing customer service solutions
- Experience and understanding of value selling strategies
- Good communication skills in both written and spoken English
- Good understanding of digital skills and mindset
- A bachelor's degree in an associated field
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
