DC-Health -Telesales Consultant(Park Square) - Pietermaritzburg
Discovery – Connect
Telesales Consultant
About Discovery
Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best.As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
Job Description
Identifying sales opportunities.
Answering inbound calls timeously and making required outbound calls
Co-ordination of own administration
Identifying sales opportunities
Maintaining accurate details and statistics of all queries
Key purpose
This position is based in the Discovery Connect Sales call centre, and reports to the sales team leader. The successful individual will be required to conduct Discovery Health telesales.
Key Outputs
The successful individual will be required to perform on, but not limited to the following key outputs:
- Achieve Health Sales target
- Communication to members telephonically via fax and email
- Attending to general administration
- Conduct Financial Needs Analysis
- Achieve quality target
- Overcome objections
- Adhering to service level agreements
Personal attributes and skills
The successful individual will be required to demonstrate the following competencies:
- Target Driven
- Team Player
- Goal orientated
- Self-motivated
- Ability to perform under pressure
- Adapt to change
- Persuasiveness
- Resilience/Tenacity
- Sound Time Management
- Self-managed
- Attention to detail
- Ability to learn quickly and apply knowledge
- Speak fluently (accent neutral) English/Afrikaans
- Matric
- At least 1year sales experience, preferably in an outbound telesales environment
- PC literacy, email, word, excel
- Tertiary qualification an advantage
- NQF5 and RE5 qualification
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.