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Business support agent – Self-employed

This is a remote working opportunity on a self-employed basis.

In your role as a business support agent, you will support micro and SME businesses by providing services such as websites, hosting, domains, databases, applications, accountancy services, business, marketing, and sales plans, CRM, VOIP telephone lines, online and offline courses, seminars and webinars, 1-2-1 consultancy services, logo, leaflet, and brochure design, merchandise, membership services, corporate videos and much more.

We will support you to seek and provide business solutions to resolve issues that hinder performance, your role will be to develop micro and SME businesses in whatever they need to progress forwards towards growth.

At SOSI, we are on a mission to build businesses driven by a relationship sales focus, agile, and innovative solutions. We are passionate about people, business development, and growth. We help micro and SMEs to achieve their commercial goals through effective business support whilst having a lens of Inclusiveness and Diversity.

What we do

  • Successful agents will be responsible for prospecting and selling our business solutions.
  • Successful agents will need to build a strong reputation when engaging with clients on our business solutions.
  • Agents will be responsible for working in a specialist capacity whilst managing end-to-end sales and engagement for all business opportunities.

The Role

  • Roles & Responsibilities: • Reporting to SOSI business development director • Develop and close a pipeline of business opportunities.
  • Provide end-to-end ownership for business opportunities on behalf of SOSI.
  • Qualify leads and manage the qualification process to truly understand business customers’ requirements and align these to our business services as required.
  • Assist businesses through a process of understanding their needs, creating a solution, and defining a solution; with responsibility for then negotiating commercials, closing the deal, and providing commercial direction for the solution.
  • Integrate with the other service providers.
  • Support the business development team to create value, diversify, customise, generate leads, and close business.
  • Lead and own the bidding process including response documents and full proposal. • Drive partnership and collaboration with key vendors. • Develop and execute a jointly agreed sales plan in collaboration with SOSI in order to maximise opportunities in growing new business and market share.

Key Skills & Requirements:

  • The ability to qualify and develop prospective clients from a cold start and manage the entire sales cycle from right through to successful results.
  • An ability to source, generate and qualify new lead opportunities to build new relationships.
  • This is a relationship-based selling role, particularly with good knowledge of customer service.
  • The willingness to build a solid understanding of business solutions and the ability to create value for clients.
  • A keen focus on gaining an understanding of technology, emerging technologies, and the broader market outside of business solutions.
  • The ability to develop long-term relationships as a trusted agent for business customers.
  • The ability to drive internal collaboration and learn virtually on Teams.
  • The ability and willingness to support the growth of online and offline business services to align with competition in the market.

Experience

  • No experience is required as full and comprehensive training will be given

Compensation

  • Revenue split scheme based on performance

Process

  • Please email a copy of your CV and a covering letter to sales@sosinnovation.org  telling us why you have applied for this opportunity and why you think you would add value.
  • Please note, that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted due to the volume of applications we receive for these roles.

The process to your professional pathway

  • Pre-entry
  • Initial Assessment
  • Initial Screening
  • Onboarding
  • Induction
  • Online Basic Sales Training (Maximum 2 Weeks to complete)
  • Online accredited HR & Recruitment Training
  • Principles of business
  • Professional Sales Training
  • Enterprise pathway

Training

We will train you to be an effective people-centred business agent, where inclusiveness and diversity will be at the heart of everything that you do.

Support

1-2-1 advice and support (Booking system)

FAQ’s

Forum

Helpline

Seminars & webinars

Start-up costs

The cost of starting up for your pathway will be £2400 per annum, this can be paid monthly of £200 per month (NO INTEREST) by direct debit.

Application

PLEASE APPLY HERE

 

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