Position: Sales Assistant

Summary: A graduate sales role at a tech scale-up

Start date: September/ October 2023

Location: London-based with hybrid/ flexible working and opportunity to travel

Reporting to: Head of Sales, EMEA

Starting salary: Competitive, with base salary + bonus

Other perks: 24 paid days p/a holiday, fun working environment, flexibility over hours and location, and lots of training

About ToucanTech:

ToucanTech is a smarter community software to help organisations engage their members, streamline processes and amalgamate multiple systems into one. The platform combines a CRM, website builder, email, events, forms, payments, a mobile app and more.

300 organisations across 27 countries use ToucanTech to operate more efficiently and increase engagement from their communities. Our customers are cause-based and make a positive difference in the world. They include a range of schools, charities, universities, museums, professional associations and clubs.

60 Toucans work across our London, Lisbon and Sydney hubs in tech, product, data, customer, marketing and sales roles.  You’ll be a good fit if you’re naturally curious and like to be challenged and if you want to help community managers achieve more with smarter software.

Summary of the role:

As a Sales Assistant you will support the EMEA regional head and other members of ToucanTech’s sales team across an interesting mix of tasks, from updating product info packs, to researching sales prospect lists, to adding new contacts to our sales database. You will have the opportunity to learn a broad range of skills - sales, administrative and organisational - as well as building technical knowledge about how a B2B SaaS product works. 

Responsibilities: 

• Update sales info packs 
• Update the sales database
• Brief new data gathering tasks 
• Research inbound leads 
• Review warm lead lists 
• Nudge prospects along
• Plan sales events
• Check product features 
• Create demo site user-journeys 
• Undertake market research

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Self-driven and hard-working
• Highly organized, a team-player and always ‘happy to help’
• Naturally interested in technology, online communities, databases and websites
• Detail-oriented with clear written communication skills 
• Confident to ask questions, learn fast, and make suggestions 
• Degree-educated (from a top university), with excellent spoken and written English
• Has some experience/ understanding of working in schools, membership associations or in the fields of fundraising, alumni or community relations
• Good PowerPoint skills – must be able to create beautiful sales presentations/ materials or at least assemble all the key points/ ideas, which can be polished up by a designer

What we offer:

• A competitive salary package with a sales-linked bonus
• Responsibility from day one in a fast-growing company in a worthwhile sector
• Opportunity to hone and develop sales, administrative and general business skills
• Flexibility to work from home / travel/ flex hours
• Spacious office in West London close to the Central Line, with drinks and snacks
• Regular team events and lunches
• 24 paid holiday days and occasional ‘bonus’ days
• A vibrant, smart, diverse and international team

To apply:

Please send a copy of your CV (or link to your LinkedIn profile), to work@toucantech.com, with a few sentences explaining why you are interested in this position. If successful, we will send you a more detailed job description and a short test to complete as the next stage.

At this time we cannot sponsor work visas, so please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK, as this is a UK-based position.

Thank you!