New Business Sales Executive - Permanent

Full Time - Hybrid Working

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal – access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts – you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,577 employees and over 33,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning.  As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. 

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

The Supplies Sales Team are vital to developing new opportunities and growth throughout SJA. This new crucial role will be responsible for identifying new high value business opportunities and prospects within Supplies. 

Self motivated and driven to succeed, you will be responsible for the conversion of self-generated leads, through to prospect and onboarding, increasing St John market share and revenue across the Supplies Team.

About You

To be successful in this role, you need to be Educated to GCSE level or equivalent (Grade C / 4) including Maths & English, minimum 5, Experience in successfully achieving new business targets in a B2B environment, Experience in successfully achieving new business targets in a B2B environment and ability to prioritise busy workload, working to tight deadlines and conflicting priorities

About the Role

• Work to the new business sales strategy across key business areas for Supplies, to increase customer base, market share, revenue and margin.
• Work to established sales flows, sales processes and feed into and follow bespoke strategies for different industry sectors relevant to the business areas.
• Achieve activity and revenue targets set and demonstrate and embody the right behaviours to achieve the best results.
• Take consultative sales approach with prospects, aligning requirements to St John offerings and services.
• Utilise the marketing and sales materials and support to deliver the best results and provide a professional image to prospective customers.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk 

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.   At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women’s groups.  We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.   

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.