Sales Executive

Job Summary

Are you a driven sales professional with strong relationship-building and communication skills, or are you looking for an exciting opportunity to build a career in lending business to business or company? Join Planworth and build a rewarding career in SME financing. We are looking for ambitious, target-driven individuals who are eager to learn and grow. Banking experience is not required — we’ll provide the necessary training in SME financing.

Candidates with experience in sales, business development, account management, property, automotive, insurance, recruitment, telco, B2B services, technology, FMCG, or financial services are encouraged to apply.

Banking or SME financing experience is an advantage, but NOT a requirement.

What is your role? Responsibilities

• Develop new business opportunities through company-generated leads, referrals, networking, prospecting and your own initiatives.
• Meet SME owners, directors and decision-makers to understand their businesses and financing requirements.
• Build relationships with prospects and convert opportunities into customers.
• Introduce suitable financing options to meet customers’ financing needs.
• Follow up consistently with prospects and manage your sales pipeline.
• Collect and understand basic business and financial information from customers.
• Prepare financing proposals with guidance from our experienced team.
• Work closely with Credit, Operations and Management to bring suitable financing cases forward for approval.
• Maintain accurate prospect and customer information in our CRM system
• Continue developing and growing your portfolio of SME customers.

Who are we looking for? Requirements

• Possess at least SPM/STPM, Professional Certificate, Diploma, or Bachelor’s Degree in any relevant discipline.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in sales, business development, relationship management, or account management.
• Driven to achieve targets and motivated by performance-based rewards.
• Confident communicating with business owners, directors, and senior decision-makers.
• Enjoy meeting new people, building relationships, and developing business opportunities.
• Persistent and able to handle rejection without giving up.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to create opportunities independently.
• Willing to ask questions and understand how businesses operate.
• Consistent in following up with prospects and managing multiple opportunities.
• Confident, energetic, commercially minded, and results-oriented.
• Open to exploring a new industry and learning about SME financing.
• Looking to build a long-term and rewarding career.
• Demonstrates a strong determination to achieve goals and overcome challenges.
• Takes proactive steps and demonstrates initiative to take on tasks independently.
• Hard-working and diligence in carrying out responsibilities.
• A Goal Go-Getter to achieve objectives and meet targets.
• Curious and Hungry to succeed in their role.
• An enthusiastic learner to acquire new knowledge and skills.

What Matters More Than Banking Knowledge

We value candidates who demonstrate:

• Ambition – Driven to grow and achieve meaningful goals.
• Sales Drive – Confident in engaging prospects and closing deals.
• Curiosity – Interested in understanding businesses and their challenges.
• Resilience – Able to handle rejection and stay persistent.
• Initiative – Proactive in creating and pursuing opportunities.
• Coachability – Open to feedback and eager to learn.
• Relationship Building – Able to build trust and communicate professionally.
• Urgency – Acts with speed and a strong sense of priority to seize opportunities and deliver results.
• **Passionate -**Enthusiastic, motivated by challenges, and genuinely committed to achieving success.

Why Build Your Career with Planworth?

Moving into SME financing gives you exposure to business owners and companies across many industries.

You will learn how businesses operate, how cash flow works, how financing is structured and how commercial decisions are made.

We appreciate your talent: Benefits and Perks

• 5 days working week.
• Competitive basic salary.
• Attractive annual performance bonus. Our rewards philosophy matches pay to performance, potential and work ethics.
• Structured training in SME financing and business assessment.
• Practical coaching from experienced leaders.
• Exposure to SME owners, directors and corporate decision-makers.
• Opportunities to progress into senior Relationship Manager and leadership roles.
• Opportunities to diversify into other functions as your career develops.
• Insurance coverage for staff - Group Hospitalization, Group Term Life and Group Personal Accident.
• Other staff benefits such as Medical claims, Optical, Dental, Annual health screening, Company trips, Teambuilding activities, Wedding gifts, Child Birth gifts and many more.
• Large, modern, luxury, advanced and trendy office layout for your optimum safety, comfort and performance, prayer room, training room and a secure basement parking.
• Pantry service with beverage vending machine. Enjoy complimentary, barista-style refreshments, including a selection of Cappuccinos, Lattes, and Americanos available throughout the day.
• We are committed to employee health, wellbeing and comfort – We provide ergonomic adjustable chairs and desks to support and promote good health and body posture. Ergonomic chairs and tables are highly adjustable to suit the natural position of your joints and body type to align your shoulders, provide hips and spine support, increased productivity, and enhanced employee comfort.
• Accelerate Your Career Growth - We offer a specialized sales skill assessment tool to evaluate your current skill set as part of upskilling your sales skill to better than ever. To help you advance, we offer structured mentoring and coaching programs intended to build leadership and management capabilities through real-world, on-the-job training. Furthermore, there are plenty of career growth opportunities and avenues to diversify into other roles within the company.

Where are we? Ideal Location

• Close to Putra LRT - Ampang Park Station (5 mins walk)
• Adjacent to MRT - Ampang Park Station (5 mins walk)
• Surrounded by shopping centres - short walking distance to KLCC, Avenue K, Intermark and etc.
• Located on the ground floor of a 33 storey building with more than 10,000ft of work space.

This Role May Be Right for You If…

You have reached a stage where you are thinking:

“I know I can sell, but I want to move into something more professional and build a stronger career.”

or

“I want to learn about business and finance, but I don't have banking experience.”

or

“I am performing well in sales, but I want greater exposure to business owners and bigger transactions.”

If that sounds like you, we encourage you to apply.

Your industry can be different. Your attitude cannot.

Apply now and tell us why you believe you can succeed in SME financing.

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