Overview

Salary: £30,000 + £5,700 - £8,100 OTE

Who are we? We're Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed. At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. We help them get the finance they need to grow. With more than a decade of expertise, we’ve built a platform with data and technology that reshapes SME lending. We provide fast decisions and human support to deliver an excellent customer experience.

The role is phone based and the first point of contact with borrowers. You will speak with a diverse range of SME owners to understand their business, goals and show how Funding Circle can help.

Responsibilities

• Working with warm leads to generate new opportunities through business development of new Funding Circle borrowers (c.60-80 dials per day).
• Establishing instant rapport with customers via telephone and email to build strong relationships.
• Pitching the Funding Circle proposition against alternative funding options available.
• Managing a high-volume, fast-paced pipeline; supporting clients through each stage of creating an application.
• Being responsible for your own monthly target and continuously developing your approach to hit it.
• Proactively problem solving, identifying and mitigating risks, issues or control weaknesses in day-to-day activities.
• Experience in a sales or service environment is beneficial, even if not extensive.
• Strong communication skills; confident engaging with small business owners over the phone and via email.
• Ability to develop and maintain your pipeline while managing applications in progress.
• Proactivity and a desire to develop your career with ongoing feedback and continuous development in sales at Funding Circle.

Career start and progression

Sales Executive (Account Executive) is the first step in your career within Sales at Funding Circle. You will learn the foundations of sales and account management starting with a tailored two-week Sales Induction programme. Ongoing tools and support help you thrive and progress to more senior roles such as Account Manager, Business Development Executive and Sales Team Manager.

Impact and culture

We have a significant impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform and the communities they serve. In the last year, £6.9bn of GDP was generated. See our Impact Report for more details: https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/impact

To see what our customers think, visit our Trustpilot page: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/fundingcircle.com

We are evolving and solving SME finance challenges with our award-winning multi-product platform. We encourage big thinking and collaborative work to meet the needs of SME customers.

Why join us?

We celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal-opportunity employer and we value diversity. We offer hybrid working with a mix of in-office days in London (three days a week) and flexible days elsewhere. We provide a refurbished hybrid space, coffee and subsidised lunches. We back Circlers to build their own careers, anchored around four pillars: Health, Wealth, Development & Lifestyle.

• Flexibility: A benefit allowance to tailor your benefits to you and your family’s needs.
• Health: Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, health assessments, eyecare vouchers, flu jabs, Wellhub access to wellbeing apps, Employee Assistance Programme and Digital GP for you and children under 16.
• Wealth: Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness Cover, financial coaching, share scheme, mortgage advisor partnership and retailer discounts.
• Development: Annual Learning & Development allowance and access to internal learning platform.
• Lifestyle: Electric Car Scheme, Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans, and more.

We also feature award-winning parental leave policies and support for parents through enhanced leave options and additional leave for parental bereavement and fertility treatments. Ready to make a difference? We’d love to hear from you. #LI-CS1