Sales Associate Job at TruQ

truQ is the operating system for third-party logistics. truQ connects anyone with logistics needs to the closest vehicles in real-time, powers a SaaS infrastructure that helps businesses coordinate that interaction smarter, and provides access to capital for commercial drivers on the platform, helping them stay running and grow their businesses.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Sales Associate

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time (Hybrid)
Job Field: Growth

Job Overview

• We are looking for an energetic and resourceful Sales Associate to join our team.
• As a Sales Associate, your responsibility will be to research potential businesses that fit into truQ’s customer profile, establish contact, and host discovery calls to understand the business and their logistics needs better, helping truQ better understand if such business is an ideal customer for truQ or otherwise.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in Identifying and gathering potential clients across all business verticals (Lead generation)
• Research and identify ideal potential businesses that fit into truQ’s customer profile to explore, guide, and engage through a very strategic discovery process toward qualifying leads.
• Work in sync with the marketing communications team on campaign and communications efforts that helps advance the sales efforts of the company.
• Collaborating with the larger business division to ensure the company reaches its target businesses.
• Establish contact and host discovery calls to understand the business and its logistics needs better.
• Qualify leads as appropriate with key attention to ensuring only quality leads get passed on to the sales funnel.
• Provide daily reports on leads acquired and qualified with suggestions on specific value propositions for each lead.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or other similar fields
• At least 6 months of experience in a direct business-focused role e.g. marketing, sales, customer relationship management or other related fields / Proven track record of exceptional resourcefulness in getting stuff done.
• Thorough understanding of various web search and professional online platforms
• Excellent written and conversational skills
• Ability to persuade and negotiate
• Ability to work in changing environment.
• Ability to work well in a team and independently

Why truQ?
Beyond the perks of remote work, paid time off, and all the fun times we’ll share, we also bring a unique opportunity to work with other professionals who would help you grow your career so you can positively impact the world and fulfill your potential in an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork.

What we offer:

• Health insurance coverage
• Maternity & paternity leave
• 21 working days paid annual leave
• Flexible work culture, largely remote
• Compensation and commission package
• Exposure to a growing tech company with a clear career path, and presence in other Nigerian cities and at least 8 African countries by 2025.

Recruitment Process:

• Assessment / Case Study
• Call with People Ops team & Growth lead
• Call with the founders.