Sales executive

Sales executive
We are a fast growing renewable energy information company with offices in UK and China, and we are looking for a sales executive with sales experience to work in China.
The job will start in summer 2022, and will be an open contract with an 18-month minimum period.
ENF has been operating for 4 years, and we now have 30 staff. Our company has the world € s most popular website for information about companies in the solar power industry (our website is in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Japanese), we have a team of people making market research reports profiling the companies in the industry and we have a trade team assisting Western companies to purchase from Chinese manufacturers.
The job is in a city called Wuhu, which has low pollution and has less crime than England.
Compensation
ENF will provide accommodation within a shared apartment with other employees. Salary will be low compared to UK but it will be around double the salary we pay to our Chinese staff and allows for a comfortable lifestyle in China. ENF will pay for your flight to and from China, and your visa application fees. In addition there are salary reviews every 6 months, and the sales team is paid commission on the sales they achieve.
Key skill requirements
You don € t need to be able to speak any Chinese as all employees are fluent in English, and you don € t need any background in the renewable energy industry (as a good salesman can sell anything).
Candidates must have sales experience € if you have experience selling advertising or information it is a strong plus.
Candidates must be very self-motivating. As the sales build up you will have an increasing number of contacts with people you have gotten to know € but at the start there will be a lot of telephone work to initiate contact with marketing managers around the world (although many will know ENF € s name already).
If you don t have any relevant work experience, then we have 1-year unpaid internship opportunities available for people looking to gain experience in the renewable energy industry, with ENF only providing free accommodation. If you do apply for an internship, please mark your application very clearly as such so that it is not filtered out.
Job Details
The job will be to sell ENF s advertising and market research reports. The job is primarily phone-based, but we do send the better sales people to overseas exhibitions (Europe, USA etc.) to make contact with customers face-to-face.
Note: Candidates must be willing to work on different time zones based on the markets they are selling to. Eg. When selling to European companies, staff will work 2pm until 11pm.
Further Information About Wuhu
It is important for us that our new staff are stable and happy, so we would like to point out a few potential negatives to potential candidates:
- There is little night life and bars in the city as Chinese people prefer to drink in restaurants. This means that people who like to go out drinking a lot will be disappointed with the social options.
- We are based in real China. Unlike Beijing and Shanghai, there are very few foreigners in Wuhu so if you just want to hang around with Europeans only there won t be much choice.
On the positive side the city is well developed and clean. There are some global supermarket chains in the city showing food labels in English, and large department stores which make shopping easy.
Although there is only one English-language TV channel, the company has a DVD library with over 1000 DVDs for the staff to borrow.
Note: We do not want any applications from Chinese nationals at this time. We will be recruiting new Chinese staff in Q4 2022, and Chinese nationals are invited to keep an eye on the famous job websites in China for these opportunities.
Please apply in English to: hr@enf.cn, using € sales executive € in the subject line.