Sales Development Representative

Alsico UK is part of the Alsico family of companies, a third generation privately owned Belgium business founded in 1934, today we employ over 8000 people and dispatch over 18 million garments a year. The Alsico group is the largest purchaser of workwear fabrics in Europe.

Role Purpose
The Sales development Representative is responsible for delivering a consistent, structured, and measurable outbound prospecting function to support healthcare sales growth.

The role focuses on generating and qualifying new business opportunities for the Healthcare Sales team and directly prospecting and converting GP practices through a transactional sales model.

The role operates within the Customer Experience function and is designed to strengthen pipeline generation without duplicating Sales account ownership or field-based activity.

Key Responsibilities

1. Outbound Lead Generation & Qualification

• Identify and target prospective customers across healthcare sub-sectors
• Conduct outbound calls and follow-up activity
• Qualify opportunities and book well briefed meetings for Sales
• Capture accurate briefing notes and CRM records

2. GP Practices – Transactional Sales

• Prospect, quote, and convert GP practices directly
• Sell from a standardised product and pricing framework
• Manage opportunities through to first order
• Support repeat ordering

3. CRM Management & Reporting

• Maintain accurate CRM records and pipeline hygiene
• Use Salesforce CRM Tool
• Track leads, meetings, and GP conversions

4. Internal Collaboration

• Work closely with Customer Experience and Sales teams
• Support early-stage customer transitions where required
• Maintain professional, brand-consistent communication

Skills & Experience

• Experience in outbound B2B calling or lead generation
• Confident and professional telephone manner
• Strong organisation and follow-up skills
• Comfortable working to activity-based targets
• Strong CRM discipline is essential. Experience using platforms such as Salesforce or HubSpot is desirable

Performance Measures

• Qualified leads generated
• Meetings booked and accepted by Sales
• GP Sales
• CRM accuracy and compliance

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to £31,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Preston PR2 9YW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• B2B sales: 2 years (required)
• CRM software: 1 year (required)
• Microsoft Office: 2 years (required)

Work Location: In person