• Do you have experience in Sales?
• Do you love to connect with new clients and build your own sales base?
• Want to build a rewarding sales career in Sydney with great earning potential?

We are looking for a motivated, dynamic Sales Consultant to join our friendly sales team based in Sydney. You will be working in your own territory, selling a range of hygiene services. You can learn more about our Initial Hygiene brand and the products and services they offer by clicking on this link.

You will look to build on solid existing client relationships whilst also using your outstanding sales skills and outgoing personality to win new sales and clients in your area.

To help achieve this, we will provide you with a competitive base salary, a highly rewarding uncapped commission structure, a company vehicle, a mobile phone, a tablet, and further career opportunities. You will also be given full product training, with hands-on assistance from the Manager and the Sales Team.

In this role you will be responsible for these key areas:

• Driving sales revenue by hunting new business opportunities via cold calling/ visits
• Servicing our existing client base and analysing their needs to increase sales
• Developing and implementing sales plans to achieve set sales targets
• Building strong customer relationships and managing a sales pipeline
• Identifying customer needs and knowing how to deliver successful sales

You will have skills and experience including:

• Previous sales experience
• Ability to cold-call & plan to sales territory
• Self-Motivation and ability to work autonomously
• A passion for hunting new business and being recognised and rewarded
• Good time management skills
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment
• Full Australian Drivers Licence

It would be highly advantageous if you also have:

• Experience within Business to Business & direct sales
• Excellent sales, solutions & negotiation skills
• Strive to reach & exceed sales
• Versatility to build rapport with people at all levels
• Commercially focused

Initial Hygiene, a division of the global company Rentokil Initial, has been offering the complete range of Hygiene solutions to Australian businesses for over 40 years. We operate in all states of Australia, employing passionate people to manage, maintain and service our extensive customer network.

If you enjoy being independent, on the road and driving a new sales territory, then we'd love to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to pass a Pre-employment medical, drug & alcohol screen as well as background checks.

Click the Apply button to submit your resume and kickstart your sales career today!

Employee Testimonials -

“At Rentokil there are a huge variety of positions that would suit anyone.”

Tony Wright

Sales Consultant

"As an Initial Hygiene Technician, I earn commission for sales leads and five-star online reviews."

Lisa Crow

Local Service Manager

"I am really proud to work for Rentokil Initial and I have enjoyed working here for the last 11 years."

Sierra Warrington

Client Retention Manager

"Even though I can do my role at home, I choose to come into the office to spend time with my colleagues.” “It’s easy to have work-life balance working with Rentokil Initial.”

Michael Stone

Sales Consultant

About the role:

Are you looking to kickstart your career in SaaS? Want to work with an incredible team, learn the ropes and grow your sales career in a flexible environment that has structure and stability? If so, this opportunity might just be what you've been looking for.

We are looking for a talented, passionate, and motivated individual to join our go-to-market team as a Sales Development Representative (SDR), taking accountants and bookkeepers on a journey to move their traditional methods of client engagement to a business-critical platform that offers their customers sleek and professional branded experiences, automating large parts of their business including invoicing, payments and workflows. 

As a Sales Development Representative, you'll play a key role in our marketing and sales efforts by developing a qualified pipeline of leads that result in more product demos for our sales team. 

Your main objective is to get prospective customers excited about what we're doing and schedule product demonstrations with our Sales team. You’ll be an integral part of helping the company build a strong pipeline of qualified opportunities and grow its revenue while being the face of Ignition in the professional services industry!

Role location:

We are open to candidates located in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. At Ignition, it's up to you to decide whether you want to work fully remote, in-office or a mixture of both.

What your day to day will look like:

With an established brand presence and a full pipeline of new business, your primary responsibility will be to engage, nurture, and get prospects excited about what we’re doing–scheduling product demonstrations for them with our sales team. 

You'll be an integral part of helping the company build a strong pipeline of qualified opportunities and grow its revenue:

• Be the face of Ignition via phone and email and to make a great first impression with our prospects by demonstrating strong knowledge in key areas such as product, competitors, industry, and more (you'll be thoroughly trained on this!)

• Qualify leads and advance them to the next step in our company's sales cycle

• Being Comfortable and excited by converting outbound activity into new business

• Get excited by turning outbound activity into new business by searching for, and engaging with prospective clients via our database (Hubspot), Linkedin, Apollo etc

• Partner closely with our Inside Sales team to ensure strong communication and proper handoffs

• Participate in industry trade shows (travel opportunities!) to represent Ignition

• Be a product knowledge expert and successfully overcome prospective customer objections

• Actively look for opportunities to improve and optimise our sales processes

• Become a master of our technology stack (Hubspot, Gong, Zoom) to learn foundational skillset for SaaS sales