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CheltenhamSales Advisor

Join us at our Cheltenham Apple Premium Reseller Store, this unique place where people come to discover Apple products.

Be part of our team at Western and show your passion and expertise as you connect customers with Apple products.

Ideally you will possess:

  • An understanding and passion for Apple technology
  • Smart appearance
  • A friendly, confident personality and good communication skills
  • Organised and professional manner
  • You're warm and friendly, and you love sharing knowledge
  • You have retail or customer service experience, or you just like helping people
  • You understand customers needs and can provide the right solutions
  • You feel strongly about providing an exemplary customer experience
  • You're a team player who thinks quickly on your feet
  • You want to grow and learn in a changing environment

Full training will be provided on all aspects on the role.

£ Competitive Package

Leamington SpaKey-Time Sales Advisor

Join us at our Leamington Spa Apple Premium Reseller Store, this unique place where people come to discover Apple products.

Be part of our team at Western and show your passion and expertise as you connect customers with Apple products.

Ideally you will possess:

  • An understanding and passion for Apple technology
  • Smart appearance
  • A friendly, confident personality and good communication skills
  • Organised and professional manner
  • You're warm and friendly, and you love sharing knowledge
  • You have retail or customer service experience, or you just like helping people
  • You understand customers needs and can provide the right solutions
  • You feel strongly about providing an exemplary customer experience
  • You're a team player who thinks quickly on your feet
  • You want to grow and learn in a changing environment
  • You will need to be able to work weekends

Full training will be provided on all aspects on the role.

£ Competitive Package

Education Sales Consultant - Oxford

Western Computer has been providing IT solutions to the education sector for the past 26 years, primarily Apple based but also encompassing a variety of third party products.The core focus of this role is to engage with schools, colleges, and local authorities and to demonstrate the benefits of implementing Apple based solutions as part of the learning platform. Apple have had considerable success in this market sector and you will have one of the strongest brands to sell.

Job Purpose:

Proactively approach all schools within a sales territory with a view to becoming their preferred Apple provider. Identify key personnel within institutions, approach them and seek a face to face meeting. Explain the entire range of services and solutions that we provide, demonstrate core Apple technologies such as iPad iOS, Mac OS X and iLife.

Generate opportunities to provide system proposals/quotations, follow up and close the business. Identify potential marketing/event opportunities such as Teach meets or Technology days where we could further promote our services within the region.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Achieve a monthly and annual sales target
  • Deliver sales activity reports and sales forecasts
  • Maintain a sales pipeline, prospect list and client database
  • Administer/maintain Apple education rebate claims
  • Approach all academic accounts within your sales territory by phone, email or letter
  • Identify key decision makers and seek an introduction meeting
  • Build personal relationships and maintain them with regular contact
  • Develop and maintain a set of key accounts
  • Communicate/demonstrate our solutions
  • Identify potential opportunities to market our service, events, trade fairs, teach meets
  • Manage all aspects of the relationship, sales, service, training – account manage
  • Attend Apple and third party training
  • Sustain and develop product knowledge

Key candidate qualities:

  • Have an understanding and passion for Apple technology
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Smart appearance
  • Ability to engage with all levels of management and SLT
  • A friendly, confident personality
  • Be able to quickly establish and maintain personal relationships
  • Good administration skills
  • Be well organised and posses good time management skills
  • Have an understanding of the academic sector from either previous sales or working experience
  • Hold a good level of basic IT knowledge
  • Ability to work alone and as part of a team
  • A desire to deliver an exemplary customer experience

Ideally you will live in or around the Oxfordshire area, you will primarily work from home. You will be required to attend our Bristol head office on a monthly basis for sales meetings and product training.

The successful candidate will receive:

  • Competitive salary based upon experience
  • Uncapped commission scheme
  • Company Car
  • MacBook, iPhone and iPad

No Recruitment agencies please

Business Sales Consultant - Oxford & Preston

Overview:

Apple has quickly become the preferred platform of choice for both desktop and mobile computing in the business sector. This has been achieved by offering a truly flexible IT solution that enables anytime anywhere business, and by addressing the needs of media rich environments. Pretty much every business is looking to enhance their IT offering and embed IT within their infastructure, ultimately they want to raise standards and they need assistance in achieving these goals.

Target market:

  • Small and medium businesses
  • Local Government departments
  • Coporate creative departments

Job Purpose:

Proactively approach businesses within the locality of the APR store with a view to becoming their preferred Apple provider. Identify key personnel within businesses, approach them and seek a face to face meeting. Explain our entire range of services and solutions that we provide, demonstrate core Apple technologies such as Mac OS X and iPad iOS.

Generate opportunities to provide system proposals/quotations, follow up and close the business. Identify potential marketing/event opportunities such as Technology days where we could further promote our services within the region.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Achieve a monthly and annual sales target
  • Deliver sales activity reports and sales forecasts
  • Maintain a sales pipeline, prospect list and client database
  • Approach all business accounts within your sales territory by phone, email or letter
  • Identify key decision makers and seek an introduction meeting
  • Build personal relationships and maintain them with regular contact
  • Develop and maintain a set of key accounts
  • Communicate/demonstrate our solutions
  • Identify potential opportunities to market our service, events, trade fairs
  • Manage all aspects of the relationship, sales, service, training - account manage
  • Attend Apple and third party training
  • Sustain and develop product knowledge

CheltenhamService Technician

Service Technician required for servicing and supporting Apple Macs in our new Cheltenham authorised service centre. An ideal opportunity to develop a career in computers. Apple experience would be seen as an advantage although full training will be given. Candidates must also have a full UK driving licence.

Among a number of tasks your key responsibilities will be:

  • Diagnose software and hardware faults
  • Prepare estimates for repair
  • Install and test replacement parts

Additional tasks:

  • Customer support callouts
  • Onsite installations
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