Several fast-growing companies that ranked high in this year’s Sunday Times ‘Top 100 Best Companies to Work For’ list have built their success on sales talent, and are now seeking to recruit more great sales people for their next stage of development.
Commercial radio company UKRD Group, which has topped the survey for the last three years is looking for sales executives and new media sales executives. Working here has many perks and there are web and radio locations around the country from Yorkshire to Cornwall.
There’s a new entry at number 2 of the Top 100 Best Companies – in fact, Swansea-based Save Britain Money Group came in as a new entrant to the list. The company scored highly for its sales staff incentive scheme and there are also incentive days, a hall of fame, and high performing teams are rewarded with nights out. While the head office is in Wales, there are sales opportunities for self-employed canvassers around the country.
The company is looking to hire self-employed canvassers to work door-to-door to generate domestic appointments for our energy surveyors. There are also opportunities for Green Deal Advisors.
In at fourth place was DRL Appliances Online, a Bolton-based web retailer that has really taken off in recent years. Here staff incentives are good – including the chance to clock up 4 days annual leave if 100% attendance in a year is attained, and there’s a good development programme, backed up with the chance to rise in the company.
Appliances Online is looking for sales executives and sales advisors for its contact centre, and there are many other commercial and administrative roles up for grabs currently. As the company website puts it: “We’re looking for people who want to develop new skills, be fulfilled, be inspired. We’re looking for people who want to make a difference. When we find them, we give them all the support they need to grow, flourish and prosper.”
Business editor of The Sunday Times, Dominic O’Connell, says that the message is clear: “Enlightened and forward-looking business leaders are investing in the wellbeing and motivation of their most valuable assets: their employees. And in a tough economic climate this makes sense: support them and they will support you.”
It may be worth sales professional considering these companies, where decent pay, training and lots of engagement and good communication from the top, make for the ideal working conditions.
More about the winning companies from the Sunday Times ‘Top 100 Best Companies to Work For’ list, published in March 2013:
UKRD Group (1st Place) is a commercial radio company based in Redruth, employing 275 people, average age 35, and has a staff turnover of just 22%. Staff take part in annual culture and value days, are given training and are involved in community projects. These are Britain’s happiest workers, who rank their employer first in five of the eight categories (My Manager, Leadership, My Company, Personal Growth and My Team). Currently there are vacancies for sales executives, new media sales executives.
Save Britain Money Group (2nd Place) is based in Swansea, employing 1,063 people with an average age of 28. Turnover of staff is 33%. The company scored highly for its sales staff incentive scheme and there are also incentive days, a hall of fame, and high performing teams are rewarded with nights out.
DRL Appliances Online (4th Place) is an online electrical appliances retailer based in Bolton which employs 427 people and has major growth plans. The company took 4th position thanks to the support and training provided to employees. DRL has embarked on a major recruitment drive, creating more than 200 new jobs across its three UK sites.
How employers are evaluated
To decide the cream of the employer crop, The Sunday Times asked employees to evaluate their time working for the company in various areas including personal growth, leadership, management, their team, and benefits and pay. The scores were then tallied up and compared, and the top-scoring firms put into three separate lists according to the number of employees.
Other high-achievers included computing company Cloudteach, which topped the list of small firms, and Pets at Home which topped the rankings of large companies.
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