Account Executive

Simple Recruitment are looking for an Account Executive for a permanent opportunity with our client in Midsomer Norton.

The Job:

Our client is seeking a driven, proactive Account Executive to accelerate new business growth within their core front line sectors. This is a high-impact, outbound-driven role responsible for generating pipeline, conducting tailored system demonstrations, managing the full sales cycle, and closing new customers.

Key requirements:

Drive New Business Revenue

• Own the complete sales cycle from outbound prospecting to qualification, demonstration, negotiation, and close.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline through consistent outbound activity, including cold calling, email sequences, and targeted research.
• Conduct online product demonstrations tailored to customer requirements and sector-specific challenges.
• Produce accurate proposals, quotes, and forecasts using standard sales tools and processes.

Strategic Prospecting & Market Engagement

• Identify, target, and engage organisations in the Healthcare and Hospitality sectors, including key decision-makers and influencers.
• Gather market and prospect intelligence to sharpen targeting, messaging, and commercial strategy.
• Represent the company professionally in customer conversations and at occasional industry events or client site visits.

Account Onboarding & Growth

• Effectively hand over and support the onboarding of new customers, ensuring training is booked and early adoption is strong.
• Maintain contact with key accounts to protect against churn and identify expansion opportunities.

Collaboration & Reporting

• Work closely with Marketing, Customer Support, and Product teams to refine campaigns, share insights, and improve customer outcomes.
• Maintain accurate CRM records, ensuring all activity, progress, and forecast information is up to date.
• Contribute to weekly sales meetings with pipeline updates and market feedback

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee mentoring programme
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site parking

The Hours:

Monday to Friday

8.30am to 5.00pm

About You:

• Proven success in an outbound, new-business B2B sales role (minimum 1 year), ideally selling technology or SaaS solutions.
• Strong cold-calling experience with demonstrated ability to generate demand from scratch.
• Confident delivering online product demonstrations and navigating multi-stakeholder sales processes.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to uncover customer pain points quickly and accurately.
• Excellent communication, resilience, and organisational skills.

Our brief: Simple Recruitment are acting as an employment agency on behalf of our client, based in Midsomer Norton, who are seeking an Account Executive to join their team on a permanent basis.