Outbound B2B Sales Agent

A leading and fast-growing UK based water utility provider is seeking talent to join their dynamic team.

The role involves outbound calling to generate leads across multiple utility offerings, with a strong focus on SME clients.

As an Outbound B2B Sales Agent, you will join a high-performing, fast-paced team, responsible for driving new business through proactive outbound engagement. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated sales professional looking to grow within a thriving and supportive environment.

Our typical shift pattern involves: 40 hours within the week. Shifts covering Monday to Friday 10:00am to 19:00pm rotational basis (SA time)

Please note. This position is based at our site in Gardens, Cape Town.

Your role can include, but isn’t limited to:

You can expect to:

• Contact potential clients via telephone to generate leads, nurture the customer and close the deal.
• Build and manage a pipeline of qualified leads to help drive growth for the company.
• Nurture relationships with potential clients to understand their needs and identify opportunities to cross sell our services.
• Work closely with the sales team to ensure a smooth handover of qualified cross sell leads for our other services.
• Conduct market research and stay up to date on industry trends to inform lead generation strategies.
• Strive to exceed weekly and monthly lead generation and secured customer contracted targets.
• Ability to switch tasks easily.

We’re delighted to drive innovation on-site day after day, so it’s a plus if you’re inventive and creative; we say yes to fresh new ideas to boost productivity, so reach out and help us shape the future.

Our ideal candidate?

• A minimum of two years’ outbound sales experience, with at least one year specifically within a B2B call centre environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• The confidence and work ethic to talk with a high volume of business owners every day.
• The enthusiasm to overcome objections and talk about Everflow with passion and pride.
• Strong relationship building skills to instantly build a rapport with a wide variety of people.
• The right attitude to enjoy the test of working towards and delivering on targets.
• Working to a high standard with good timekeeping.
• Ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
• The ability to cope well under pressure .
• Self-motivated and a team player.
• IT Literacy (Microsoft Office).
• Strong phone presence and ability to make a high volume of calls daily.
• Ability to adapt to and work independently within a fast-paced environment.

We recognise the unique contributions of everyone in #theAteam; it’s what drives our success. And we celebrate talent. That’s why there’s a huge focus on career development and recognition at Ascensos.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we pride ourselves on hiring local talent and offer a range of employment opportunities designed to fit a variety of lifestyles. You will be welcomed into an inclusive, diverse and fun environment where; delivering excellent customer service, career development and fun Fridays are the norm.

We’ll tell you all about it during your interview!

• Full training & support.
• Medical insurance after 6 months.
• Up to R1000 performance bonus.
• Opportunities to progress your career with us (more than 90% of advancement and promotions come from our internally developed talent pool).
• Full training & support.
• Access to our Learning & Development Talent SPA.
• ‘Employee of the Month’ Awards.
• A diverse and inclusive working environment.