Role: Service Sales / Internal Sales Specialist
Location: Dartford, Greater London
Are you looking for a nordic working culture in the UK? or the opportunity to support selling SMART sustainable solutions that have a focus on the wellbeing of people? Then Helvar could be for you!
Due to an Internal Promotion here at Helvar, we are now looking for an enthusiastic Service Sales / Internal Sales Specialist to join our fantastic team of sales professionals within our Direct Sales team in the UK. An ideal candidate would perhaps come from an Account Management background with a consultative / value added mindset and approach to selling.
Main purpose of your job:
Help the company to fulfill its strategy by supporting the evolution towards a more customer and lifetime service orientation, and by growing a sustainable service business.
Find and contact new customers (prospects) for digital services and service contracts to start new sales cycles. Improve overall customer experience and encourage them to buy more services by executing processes and tasks that keep new and existing customers satisfied throughout the solution life cycle.
Maintain relationships with existing key customers to uncover improvement opportunities that benefit both them and us to increase overall Customer Lifetime Value (CLV).
Act as a link between new business opportunities (leads) and our field Sales Managers to grow the business.
Why join Helvar
Autonomy and Trust: We foster a culture built on trust, empowering you with autonomy over your work and decision-making.
A Century of Stability: As a Finnish family-owned business with over 100 years of history, we offer a stable and secure environment for long-term career sustainability.
Wellbeing at Our Core: Wellbeing is central to everything we do—whether it’s creating top-quality products for our customers or ensuring the best possible care and support for our employees.
Innovation and Evolution: Innovation is at the heart of what we do. We are committed to evolving our product offerings and fostering an environment where employees can learn, grow, and develop their skills.
Mid-Sized, Accessible Team: With over 200 employees, we maintain a close-knit, mid-sized company culture where everyone is accessible, and collaboration is encouraged.
Feedback and Improvement Culture: We embrace a strong feedback culture, conducting regular surveys and annual personal development reviews to continually enhance our ways of working.
Growth-Focused Hiring: Driven by sustained growth, we've added over 100 employees at varying levels of experience across the past few years.
Internal Mobility: We prioritize promoting from within, offering employees exciting opportunities for career growth and internal mobility.
Long-Term Commitment: Our employees stay with us for an average of 8.2 years, more than double the industry average—a testament to our supportive and engaging work environment.
International Presence: With offices in Finland, Sweden, and the UK, and employees located across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our international teams.
Balanced and Ambitious: We offer a relaxed working environment where achieving work-life balance is key, while also driving for strong professional and business growth.
Dedicated Wellbeing Day: Each employee receives an annual wellbeing day, a day dedicated to recharging in whatever way works best for them.
Empower Hour: Every employee benefits from a weekly "Empower Hour," which can be used for personal wellbeing, community involvement, or learning and development.
Learning Opportunities: We encourage continuous learning through our online platform, offering access to a wide variety of topics to support your personal and professional growth.
What you'll be doing as our Service Sales Specialist:
What skills we'd like you to have:
Please note that a Lighting Controls background is not required to be successful in this role, but would of course be helpful
Apply to join our team of talented and innovative experts!
If you’d like to be a part of the Helvar family, please apply for this vacancy via our Helvar Careers site at helvar.com/careers/.
For additional information on the role, please contact our Talent Acquisition Partner, Ben Fryer [email protected] who will get in touch with you shortly.
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The Helvar Promise to You!
At Helvar, we’re determined to improve the wellbeing of people in every space - including our own employees. We promise you conditions that foster your personal growth and help you achieve your full potential. As a tight-knit company with a family ethos, we’re proud to see that Helvarians care deeply about our customers, our partners, our planet and each other. Our drive to create a better working environment is part of what we call Brighter Spaces.
We trust your vision! "Over the last 100 years, we've become experts at innovation. It's part of our culture. Together we evolve and adapt our solutions to create perfect conditions.“
We invest in you! "As we spend 1/3 of our life at work, it's important to have fun! We work in a friendly, easy-going atmosphere, and we're focused on improving your wellbeing. We celebrate a learning culture and promote Bright Ideas.”
You have the freedom to impact! “People help shape our success. This allows us to be true leaders. With your ideas, we're focused on achieving a brighter, sustainable future for generations to come.”
We’re with you all the way!
Our Story
About Helvar
Helvar is an international SMART lighting controls technology company specialising in intelligent and energy-saving solutions. Helvar lighting control solutions and luminaire components help to create smart environments built for the future, using information, and working seamlessly with other systems. With a vast range of projects spanning from hospitals, schools, workplaces to cruise ships and Istanbul’s 3rd new airport (the largest in the world), Helvar designs open and flexible solutions for lighting across a range of applications. With over 100 years of expertise, Helvar serves its customers locally with offices in Finland, UK and Sweden and via our global network of partners in over 50 countries.
Do you want to shape the future of smart buildings that improve people's wellbeing? Great! We are world leaders in lighting intelligence and our solutions are built with people in mind. Our products and solutions save energy and improve human comfort. We offer an international and diverse working culture where your wellbeing is important to us. It's a place to grow and develop, while maintaining a healthy balance of work and life.
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