Job Description

• • Your leadership style will be one of inspiration
  • You’ll be inspiring, motivating and coaching your team of initially around 10 ambassadors to their absolute best individual performance
  • You’ll also be inspiring your team by leading by example, you’ll be expected to carry about the same face to face activities as your team, as well as leading, managing & supporting them

Perks

• • Our company culture - we won best company to work for in 2019 and our CEO, Greg has recordeda podcast about our culture and how we empower our people
  • Flexible working environment - genuine work life balance here, we are in the top 5 companies in the UK, we treat you as a human, and do our best to make work and life merge smoothly together
  • Holiday - 23 days plus bank holidays
  • Remuneration - we're changing the face of field marketing therefore, we believe all of our brand ambassadors at Octopus will receive a competitive basic salary as well as uncapped commission
  • Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
  • Office culture - have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it. Our offices are also stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee and soft drinks. Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner
  • Social Events - we sponsor YeoValley’s summer festival, valleyfest, every year for our big offsite Summer party (we take our kids too) and we also aim to have 3 parties a year
  • Parents - get access to tax free childcare and maternity and paternity pay. We’re always looking for new ways to support parents, during lockdown we created OctoKids TV to help keep your kids occupied and entertained
  • Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you. We have tailored and a specialised L&D team that will take you through induction and ongoing training and development
  • SmartPension Scheme - employer 5% employee 3% and you can contribute more
  • Cycle to Work Scheme - to help lower your carbon footprint whilst good for your health

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

o Ultimately you’ll be the sort of leader who spends their time trying to catch your team members doing something right, not trying to catch them doing something wrong o Previous experience in sales will be essential (although it doesn't have to be in energy) o Face to face experience within customer-centric roles o An understanding of face to face sales or face to face customer service o The ability to demonstrate effective leadership to colleagues in order to influence and inspire o Experience within recruitment, people resourcing and team development o Experience of working autonomously o Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor communication style to achieve maximum impact upon relevant situations and audience o Adaptable personal style to deliver constructive feedback on standards of performance and to your team