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External Sales

Hayley Dexis
Bury St. Edmunds Full-time
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Job Type: Permanent

Location: Bury St Edmonds Branch

Hours: 40 hours per week

Competitive Salary & Benefits

At Hayley Dexis we’ve built-up our reputation over the course of the last five decades with stock, service and people at the core of everything we do.

As we enter an exciting period of growth our 1300 people doing things the “Hayley Way” and delivering industry leading customer service are central to our success

About the External Salesperson role

You’ll be our full-time salesperson across the patch supporting the Bury St Edmonds Branch. Expect to be out on the road across the Suffolk, Essex or Cambridgeshire geography. You’ll be dealing with existing customers leveraging upselling opportunities and targeting new customers.

Our existing customer base is very diverse range of sectors from agriculture, food, quarry's and bespoke / independents plus much more!

You’ll have prior experience in sales ideally with some cross over to what we do i.e. engineering consumables or manufacturing background.

You’ll be driven and excited to make that sale! If you are comfortable approaching customers, knocking on doors and thrive off making the smallest to the largest sales we want to hear from you!

Drive, enthusiasm, perseverance and persistence are the core of what we are looking for in this role and so we will consider a range of different experience levels.

Working Hours: 40 hours per week Monday to Friday; 8am – 5pm

1 Saturday per month 8:30am – 12:30pm

On call rota will apply once completed settling in period.

What we're looking for in our Salesperson

  • A high level of motivation and enthusiasm to drive sales.

  • Good systems knowledge and IT skills

  • Prior external sales experience preferred.

  • Confident communicator – not afraid to cold call cross industry.

  • Thrive in a role where you are given a high level of autonomy and trusted to deliver.

  • Strong interest in learning our product range / engineering.

What you’ll get in return
  • Company vehicle

  • Sales related bonus to be agreed with successful candidate.

  • From 23 days annual leave (plus public/bank holidays) increased with length of service.

  • Training provided through our own Hayley Academy.

  • Company pension (if eligible).

  • Life Assurance cover (x2 salary).

  • Invitation to healthcare schemes.

  • Wellness programmes.

  • Uniform and PPE provided.

  • Excellent opportunities and career prospects available.

What to expect from our recruitment process:

1. Initial screening

2. Microsoft Teams interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner

3. Face to face interview either in-person or Microsoft Teams

4. Decision outcome

We’ll close this role on 5th July.


A final note...

Not sure you tick every box? Please don’t let that stop you from applying.

Need any reasonable adjustments? Just give our talent acquisition team a shout.

Any questions on your mind? Please reach out to us at

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