sell their company’s goods and services. Customers may include businesses, governmental organisations and individuals, both in the UK and abroad.
Sales executives approach potential customers with the aim of winning new business, as well as maintaining good relationships with clients.
They are also responsible for making repeat sales to their employer’s existing customers. Sales is a targets driven industry and the work can sometimes be demanding.
Within the sales environment a number of other job titles are also used to refer to a similar job role, including: sales representative; sales consultant; territory manager; business development representative.