Italian speaking Sales Manager (Hybrid) – based in Milan

Job title: Italian speaking Sales Manager (Hybrid) – based in Milan

Salary: €30,000 – €38,000 + commission

Location: Milan, Italy

Reporting to: Head of Sales

Role overview:

As a Sales Manager you will be focus on acquiring new merchants for our platform. You will be responsible for the whole customer life cycle and ensure that the merchants are developing their presence on our website and throughout our network.

Duties:

• Prospection: searching for potential customers using search engines, LinkedIn, similar web and all the other web tools available
• Develop strong relationships with merchants that drive growth
• Demonstrate the ability to develop the right strategy with all your accounts and create up sale opportunities
• Day to day duties will include client cold calls, issuing proposals, following up on these proposals and getting contracts signed.

Previous Experience/Skills required:

• Experience in performance marketing / affiliate marketing preferred
• Sales and negotiation experience in a new business development environment
• Digital marketing experience/understanding of eCommerce
• Business professional level of English and Italian (additional European Languages are a plus!)

Person Specification/Competencies:

• Good negotiation skills and ability to close deals quickly
• Excellent internal and external customer relationship and interpersonal skills
• Team player with strong work ethic and ability to adapt to and drive change
• Commercially minded
• Proficient user of Salesforce
• Analytical mindset with a data driven approach to tasks
• Strategic thinker and able to think analytically at a detailed level
• Ability to strongly influence those outside direct control for positive results
• Able to deliver at a consistently high level in a demanding, commercial environment
• Manages conflict in a positive and assertive manner for the best outcome