Hectare
Sales Executive
30th August 2024
Location: Waterloo (Hybrid working)
Full time 5 days, competitive salary and commission.
Hectare are looking for a sales executive to join their team in Waterloo.
About the company
We’re on a mission to lead a transformation to a sustainable, connected future for farming. It’s harder than ever to be a farmer in the UK. Farmers need to carefully manage their costs, increase their efficiency and navigate the commodity markets to maximise their revenue – all while also adopting sustainable farming practices.
Hectare is an agritech business founded by farmers and engineers with a diverse, purpose-led team. We operate the UK’s leading online marketplaces for crop and livestock. We help farmers understand the market, compare prices and ultimately make smart, informed trading decisions.
Our last funding round was a great vote of confidence in our mission from new and existing investors. We are now on the path to our next phase of growth and would love for you to join us on this journey!
About the role
We are looking to hire an ambitious sales executive to help us rapidly expand our customer base and further develop our market-leading position. This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly formed sales team and have an immediate impact on our business.
What qualities will I need?
You’ll have all or some of these specific skills & experience:
- 2-3 years of B2B sales experience – preferably in an SDR or sales executive role
- Proven experience in nurturing leads and building relationships with prospects through from initial contact to conversion
- Passion for making direct outbound calls
- Exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Strong team player
- Comfortable and competent with CRMs and other sales tools
- Agricultural background, or grain trading background is highly desirable
Outside of these, we’ll look for someone who:
- Is excited about working in a rapidly growing agritech business that will give you the opportunity to jump in at the deep end
- Is a self-starter who is comfortable in a fast-paced environment
- Thrives on variety with an entrepreneurial spirit
- Has great interpersonal and organisational skills
Benefits
- Term: Permanent
- Salary: competitive base + commission
- Days: Full time – 5 days
- Holiday: 28 days (plus bank holidays)
- Benefits: including pension, dental care, life insurance, mental health sessions, L&D budget, team socials, cycle to work scheme, car salary sacrifice, work from anywhere days and more…
- Location: Hybrid: Your home & our office (Waterloo)
Our hiring process
First, if we think your profile and skills would be a good match for what we’re looking for, we’ll contact you to arrange a short initial call with one of our team to chat through your experience and discuss the role.
Next, if successful, you’ll be invited for a more in-depth interview and sales task – this is a great opportunity to showcase your skills!
Our final step is to introduce you to some of the amazing people you may be working with – we see this as a partnership, and it’s important you get a good feel for what we’re all about, so meeting some of our herd outside of the team you’re applying to be in will be valuable to both you and us.
Process complete! That’s it, if everyone is happy, we’ll make you an offer and work closely with you through your onboarding and beyond.
Our promise is to give you feedback along the way, regardless of the outcome. If you have any questions about the role or process, please contact Sian, VP of People sian.brown@wearehectare.com or Becky, People Operations Manager becky.smith@wearehectare.com
To apply
If this sounds like what you’d love to be doing, please apply here. We can’t wait to hear from you.
If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Ability and attitude is just as important as experience.
Come join our herd.
