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Sales Associate- French Speaking

Competitive Salary

Contract Type: Permanent-Full time.

Location: UK-Harrow

Work Pattern: Onsite-Office based

Language Skills: French, English (French language skills are essential for this role)

Start Date: July 2025

Reporting To: Inside Sales Manager

Electro Rent is a global leader in test and technology solutions that help organisations accelerate innovation and optimise investments. Electro Rent's single-source solution—including rental, financial solutions, sale of new and used equipment, and asset optimisation—supports leading innovators across many key sectors, including aerospace and defence, automotive, communications, energy, semiconductor, and general electronics. Founded in 1965, Electro Rent operates globally to deliver unmatched technical and commercial flexibility.

About You:

You’ll be a results-driven sales professional with a passion for customer engagement and a track record of success in inside sales or business development. You will be highly organised, persistent in outbound prospecting, and motivated by achieving commercial targets.

You will be skilled in professional phone engagement, strategic in structuring outbound outreach, and capable of independently developing and managing a qualified sales pipeline. An intense sense of urgency and a consultative approach are essential, particularly when responding to inbound inquiries from engineers, technical buyers, and procurement professionals.

This would be an ideal role for you if you are someone who thrives in a structured, high-activity sales environment and is motivated by clear goals, measurable performance, and team success.

About the Role:

This is a commercially pivotal role in a fast-paced, high-impact team. As an Sales Associate, you will play a key part in driving new business growth across the UK and EMEA region, managing the full sales cycle—from outbound prospecting to closing deals—with a strong focus on end customers.

You will thrive in an environment where structure, discipline, and daily sales activity drive consistent results. This role requires a proactive sales mindset, the ability to build rapport quickly, and a keen focus on pipeline development. While you'll have access to technical support for complex needs, you’ll retain full ownership of your sales funnel, personal revenue targets, and forecasting accuracy.

This position isoffice-basedat our UK headquarters inHarrow.

Why Join Us?

At our core, we value the expertise, experience, and passion you bring—and in return, we ensure you are recognised, appreciated, andwell-rewarded:

• A target-driven, commercially focused environment with high visibility and impact
• Access to a leading global brand with a deep heritage in test & measurement solutions
• Full onboarding, sales enablement tools, and support from commercial and technical teams
• Opportunity to develop your career within a growing, global organisation.
• Competitive salary and great benefits
• Private Medical Healthcare
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Great company culture

What you’ll have:

Essential

• Extensive experience in inside sales, business development, or telesales
• Proven success managing the full sales cycle: outreach, qualification, proposal, and close.
• Strong outbound prospecting skills—comfortable cold calling and running campaigns.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with a persuasive, consultative style
• Experience working with CRMs (e.g., Salesforce) and sales enablement tools.
• Highly organised and accountable, with strong forecasting discipline
• Ability to build rapport and engage technical buyers across industries.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of electronic test & measurement equipment, rentals, or industrial sectors
• Understanding of B2B solution selling and technical buyer personas
• Degree or higher education in a technical, business, or engineering discipline

Electro Rent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

All offers of employment are subject to receipt of references that prove satisfactory to Electro Rent UK Ltd

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What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and Deliver on Sales Targets: Carry and achieve personal bookings and revenue quotas through a mix of outbound and inbound activity.
• Full Sales Cycle Management: Qualify, develop, and close opportunities across your assigned segment or region with minimal handover.
• Outbound Sales Campaign Execution: Execute structured daily outreach through calls, emails, LinkedIn, and re-engagement campaigns aligned to commercial priorities.
• Lead Qualification & Conversion: Respond to inbound inquiries quickly and professionally, qualifying leads into opportunities and managing them to close.
• Pipeline Development & Forecasting: Maintain a strong, self-generated pipeline and ensure CRM accuracy to support reliable forecasting and reporting.
• Customer Retention & Cross-Sell: Engage with existing customers for transactional business and identify upsell or cross-sell opportunities to maximise account value.