Commercial Executive

What we are looking for

A Commercial Executive, who will be a key player in supporting our CEO and impact team, contributing directly to the company's growth and success.  An incredible opportunity for someone to combine their commercial and positive impact passions in a high-performance environment. 

About us

At Seismic we have 2 key goals: to be the best place you have ever worked, and to help 10 million people join the shift by 2030.

Along with creating impact through everything we do, connecting and building relationships is a core priority for us. That goes for our relationships with our amazing clients and with our fantastic team of changemakers, made up of a strong mix of B Corp, Net Zero, Reporting and Sustainability Comms experts, throughout the UK and Europe.

We love working with our clients. From SMEs to multinational corporations, we are committed to enabling them to prosper by helping them become ever more impactful forces for good.

All that’s missing is you!

The role and its responsibilities

The exact role definition will be dependent on the desire, capability and experiences of the right person. Key responsibilities are likely to include:

• Sales and Commercial Support: Provide comprehensive support to the sales team, including call preparation, sales qualification, sales reporting, proposal writing, operations and CRM administration (via HubSpot) . 

• Support with strategic commercial initiatives and projects

• Conduct company research and contribute to business development initiatives. Collaborate with team members to gather insights and craft proposals customised to align with client needs

• Direct CEO Collaboration and Support: Act as a personal sounding board for the CEO. Manage the commercial elements of the CEO's diary and communications, including email. 

• Client Management: Assist with client onboarding, feedback processes, and managing low-risk contracts and NDAs

• Opportunity to support in building and maintaining partnerships with current and potential clients

• Proactively track client satisfaction metrics

• Administrative support relating to commercial activities: Organise and prepare documents ahead of meetings, manage internal communications such as agenda creation, follow up actions and assisting with other administrative tasks as needed and required. Additional responsibilities might include: coordinating internal team events, such as workshops or team-building activities 

About you 

You believe that humanity and businesses need to make a seismic shift in the right direction and want to apply your consulting and analytical capabilities to help make that happen. At the same time you want to work in a friendly, collaborative and empathetic team who are delivering impactful projects for high-profile clients.

To be successful in this role you would need the following attributes: 

• Experience: 1-3 years of experience in a fast-paced sales, commercial support or similar role.

• Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong organisational and time management abilities. Proficiency in GoogleSuite and CRM systems (HubSpot) would be advantageous.

• Attributes: Highly motivated, ambitious, commercially driven, proactive, with a "can-do" attitude.

• Mindset: Growth mindset, adaptable, embraces challenges, and aligned with our company values.

• Communication: Confident and articulate, able to build rapport with clients and colleagues.

You are a team player - you like a laugh, but are not afraid to graft. You are a student of sustainability, have plenty to offer, and know you have even more to learn.

You are action-oriented, have a keen eye for detail and enjoy juggling multiple projects and priorities and enjoy just the right amount of time pressure to help keep productive and focused. You are a ‘people person’ with a knack for building relationships with a diverse group of people.

You are excited by the opportunities of working for a young, fast growing, ever evolving and purpose-driven business.

In your first 3 months you will:

• Be introduced to your guide and mentor

• Go through our onboarding programme with training across all our sustainability services

• Join our fortnightly Personal Growth sessions and Friday lunch-and-learns on anything and everything to do with Impact

• Get to know our CEO and many of our key clients very well

Location

You will be within commuting distance of our London office (Spitalfields Market) and able to be in the office at least 2 days per week.

Working hours 

We believe in flexible working hours to better suit our personal lives while being considerate of each other and our clients. We generally work office hours but trust each other to make fair decisions. 

Salary and benefits

• 25 days annual leave per year pro-rata

• An extra day of annual leave for your birthday

• The option to swap up to two Bank Holidays per year to suit your religious/cultural/family/personal needs

• £500 per year professional development budget

  • Plus two days per year professional development time

• £200 per year wellbeing budget

• £200 home office setup budget

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Wellbeing and benefits platform

• Bupa health insurance

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Financial coaching (Bippit)

• …and a roadmap for future benefits as we grow

Seismic is an equal opportunities employer

Seismic recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. We are building a world class team and we know we need a diverse mix of talented people doing their best work.