Regional Sales Manager

- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working
- 25 days’ annual leave
- Incentive scheme

About Us

Premium Credit is one of the leading insurance premium finance providers in the UK and Ireland, lending over £4bn to over 2 million customers with a Trustpilot score of 4.6/5. This is an exciting time of growth for us, and we need a partner focussed and commercially astute Sales Support Director to help us deliver our strategy and continue this success. With a 4/5 Glassdoor rating, this is a great opportunity to develop a varied and rewarding career with a company that supports and invests in its people.

What we offer

We pride ourselves on offering an inclusive and supportive working environment where employees can thrive and a culture that encourages people to develop and evolve.

In this rewarding role, you will manage the sales support team and prioritise activity across onboarding to achieve growth and increased penetration with existing and new partners. In return, we will provide you with a supportive environment to nurture your success and growth.

Our excellent benefits package also includes:

- Incentive scheme
- Pension
- 25 days’ holiday in addition to bank holidays
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Private Medical and Dental insurance
- 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders

If you are keen to make a positive impact in our business and with our partners, we would love to hear from you.

This role represents an incredible opportunity for a high calibre sales professional with a great leadership style and ideally, experience in the lending industry, to consolidate their skills and career path with our market-leading company.

We have a strong set of values that each employee lives by which are as follows; Stand Together, Stand Up, Stand True and Stand Out.

What’s more, we believe that over 30 years of success is down to the talent, hard work and dedication of our people, which is why we are committed to investing in them and ensuring they are successful in turn.

The Role

As a Regional Sales Manager, you will be responsible for delivering sales targets for new accounts and the development of new business across the North of England by acquiring new partners. You will achieve this through effective networking, following leads and referrals and increasing profitability from current accounts.

Taking a consultative approach to sales, you will work with a wide range of customers from many different industry sectors, making for a varied and engaging role, as such candidates from a solutions background will have a distinct advantage.

You will have line responsibility for two Telesales Executives who will support you with client communications, resolving issues, renewals and new products and the successful delivery of new business to the portfolio.

Additionally, your role will involve:

- Championing the development and management of a specific range of products
- Maintaining relationships with customers throughout your territory
- Supporting the development of new products within the Specialist Lending strategy
- Preparing weekly summaries, regular pipeline reports and monthly statistics for your region
- Assisting customers with training and needs fulfilment
- Assisting the Credit Control Department in resolving debt issues
- Helping Underwriters in obtaining information to approve deals
- Attending roadshows, exhibitions and functions

About You

To be considered as a Regional Sales Manager, you will need:

- Significant new business sales experience, focusing on intermediated sales and revenue generation
- Experience of effectively managing individuals, including mentoring, supporting and development
- An excellent understanding and application of the sales cycle
- A proven track record of demonstrating excellent relationship management behaviour, particularly with senior client partners
- Excellent presentation skills and the ability to present to Board level confidently
- Good decision-making skills
- The ability to create successful business plans

A degree level qualification or equivalent would be beneficial to your application. Strong commercially driven business acumen would also be an advantage, as would an existing portfolio of professional and/or industry contacts.

Extensive experience in UK lending markets from the perspective of a lender, a broker or a solutions background like software or asset finance sales would be desirable.

Other organisations may call this role Sales Manager, Regional Manager, Field Account Manager, Regional Business Manager, Regional Development Manager, or Regional Client Manager.

Webrecruit and Premium Credit are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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