- Contract Type: Permanent / 37.5 hours per week
- Salary: Circa £26,400 per annum plus commission
- Location: DPD Eurocentral, Woodside, Holytown, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, ML1 4XL
- Days of Work: Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm
- Hybrid Working: 3 days office based, 2 at home (once you have been trained)
Join us on our journey as we aim to be the UK’s most sustainable delivery company, whilst ensuring our customers continue to receive a world class service. You will be in a busy and fast paced business, with a turnover of nearly £2 billion, that can offer you great benefits and plenty of opportunities to progress your career
DPD are passionate about creating an environment that is open, ethical, inclusive and socially responsible.
When joining DPD you are not just starting a job, you are vital to our journey to be the most customer centric, inclusive, sustainable and leading parcel delivery provider within the UK who embraces and drives change, placing our people and our customers at the heart of what we do.
Along with job security, the tools to do the job and a competitive salary, you’ll receive fantastic benefits starting on day one, including never working on your birthday ever again!!!
DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer
Job DescriptionOur National Telesales and Direct Sales Manager is currently recruiting for a first class Telesales Executive to join her highly experienced Telesales team.
As a Telesales Executive your primary accountability will be to maximise sales opportunities by generating high quality prospect appointments for our Field Sales Executives (FSE’s)
Key responsibilities of this role will include:
- Generate appointments for the FSE’s by:
- Identifying new business opportunities
- Gathering comprehensive information relating to the potential new business opportunity and updating Salesforce
- Contacting potential customers to gain commitment to an appointment
- Achieve daily and weekly targets
- Maintain accurate and timely records of the prospect’s shipping requirements and contact details
- Update and maintain all internal systems
- Liaise with FSE’s and Sales Managers
- Promote Company products and services along with the benefits to potential customers
About You
To excel in this role you will ideally need to have prior outbound calls experience either Business to Business or Business to Consumer. Outstanding communication skills both verbal and written are essential.
We will also expect you to have;
- Strong telephone manner
- High attention to detail and organisation skills
- Excellent listening skills
- Knowledge of navigating CRM systems or databases
- Self motivated and resilient
- Target driven and the ability to engage with key decision makers
- Demonstrate the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Caring and Accountability.
About our benefits:
We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few…
- Holiday trading
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
- Free onsite car parking for all employees
- Health Kiosks visiting every location
- Vitality at Work
- Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
- Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
- Free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses
Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.
If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.
Skills Required
- Prior outbound calling experience in a business-to-business or business-to-consumer environment
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Strong telephone manner
- High attention to detail and organizational skills
- Excellent listening skills
- Knowledge of navigating CRM systems or databases
- Self-motivated and resilient
- Target-driven and able to engage with key decision-makers
- Demonstrate DPD values including passion, respect, honesty, flexibility, caring, and accountability
What We Do
DPDgroup UK Ltd is a leading express parcel delivery service provider in the United Kingdom and a subsidiary of DPDgroup, which is wholly owned by La Poste, the French postal service. The company operates the DPD and Interlink Express brands, delivering approximately 1.6 million parcels weekly for a diverse customer base, including major retailers like Superdry and John Lewis.
