Junior Account Manager

Farewill ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: 25000 - 30000 per annum

Overview

We’re looking for a  Junior Account Manager  to join our growing Partnerships team at  Farewill . Partnerships have played an integral role in the success of our will writing business, enabling us to become the largest will writer in the UK. In March 2019, we launched our probate service, and have already become one of the leading providers of probate in the UK. Partnerships are central to our ambitious growth plans for 2020. We’re looking for a Junior Account Manager to help grow the financial services channel for us. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team that is building a go-to-market sales strategy for Farewill. In the next 12 months you will: Work alongside our Business Development Managers to help grow new business opportunities. Be responsible for prospecting and booking initial meetings Deliver monthly reporting for all partners Develop and grow your own book of business and contribute meaningfully to the team Help develop and scale our proposition for financial services - this is a unique opportunity to help shape an untouched consumer industry. Hopefully, you’ll have some or all of the following: 1-2 years in a sales/customer-facing role Confident phone manner Brilliant communication and presentation skills Effective organisational skills Comfortable with numbers and reporting on data Comfortable with technology (we use a whole range) Ability to work as part of a small, growing team Effective organisational skills Some extra skills that would be great: Experience or education in Business Experience selling a product Experience compiling data reports If this sounds like what you’d love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from you. If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Personality and attitude is just as important as experience What we offer in return: £25,000.00-30,000.00 basic salary OTE 28 days of annual leave plus the usual public holidays Work from home on Wednesdays, flexible start and end to your day Regular off-site days and team lunches Santander cycles membership A chance to make a meaningful contribution to people's lives and deaths And much more About Farewill: At Farewill, we’re out to change the way the world deals with death. Helping people to take control, personally and financially, of what matters to them after they’re gone. We launched our first product - our will-writing service - in December 2016, and since then we’ve grown to be the largest will-writer in the UK. We launched our second product,  Probate , in early 2019, and recently our third,  Cremation . Our growth to date has been driven by an exceptional product (see our  customer reviews ) and key strategic partnerships. We’ve been featured in Forbes, The Times, The Guardian and on  Radio 4  among others. We're also making waves in the charity world - with over £100 million raised for charities on our platform from gifts left in wills. Our team: We’re a creative, focused team who love what we do. We have backgrounds in design, technology, behavioural psychology, and management consultancy. We love to learn from each other and our customers, and grow together as a team. Based in our lovely office in Haggerston, we’re backed by some of the best investors in Europe - from the founders of Transferwise and Zoopla, to Kindred Capital, SAATCHiNVEST, JamJar and DMGT. This is an unusual, fascinating, and emotional area to work in – if you’re up for a big challenge we’d love to meet you. If you’d like to understand our culture and product better, here’s a few articles for you to read:  About Farewill ,  Life at Farewill ,  Are you worried about your will? Please note - In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, all Farewill employees are working remotely and we will be conducting all interviews virtually for the foreseeable future. We will continue hiring as usual.