Business Accounts Consultant

**About Alinta Energy**:
**At Alinta Energy, we’re constantly striving to do better. Whether it’s lowering customers costs, providing world class local service or sustainable energy, our aim is to be better. And to keep getting better day **after day. Better for our customers. Better for Australia. And better for our environment.**

We’re a leading Australian utility with an owned and contracted generation portfolio of 3,000MW, over 1 million combined electricity and gas retail customers, and around 1,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand. Supplying energy in Australia for over 20 years, today we’re a vertically integrated energy company providing generation, retail and wholesale supply of gas and electricity across Australia. We support the development of renewable energy generation and offer local customer service through support hubs in Perth, Western Australia, and Morwell in Victoria.

**Our Culture**:
It’s an exciting time to become a part of our growing team at Alinta Energy. Our people are our greatest asset and we’re committed to a culture that’s focussed on being better at providing great service externally and internally. An organisation where people truly matter. That’s better.

**About the role**:
We are looking for an experienced Business Accounts Consultant to join our high performing, collaborative team on a full-time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Business Sales Manager, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio to handle customer retention, whilst generating new business within the small to medium enterprise sectors. To succeed in this role, you should have a natural flair for building strong relationships and customer management.

**Duties**:

- Development and growth of new business through cold calling, warm lead response and face to face sales resulting in achievement of sales targets.
- Building and maintain strong relationships with internal customers (i.e., Billing and customer operations teams) and external customers (i.e., Business Customers and Industry Consultants)
- Strong customer service focus
- Various sales administration tasks

**Skills and experience**:

- Proven experience and track record of exceeding targets for both retention and new business development
- B2B experience in converting cold and warm leads via outbound tele-sales and face to face
- Experience with MS Office, Outlook, Excel, and Word (desirable to have Microsoft Dynamics 365 knowledge)
- A strong team player, self-starter, great communicator with a proactive approach
- Experience working in a professional and collaborating team environment

Whilst it’s advantageous to have gained your sales consultancy experience from an energy industry background, this is not essential. However, it is essential you can work well within in a team, are motivated and a confident self-starter. This is a really great opportunity for someone wanting to pave out a career within one of Australia’s leading energy businesses.

**Benefits**:

- Hybrid working arrangements for most roles, combining office-based and work from home
- Staff energy discount offer (where products are available)
- Generous employee referral bonus
- Salary Packaging options
- Paid community volunteer leave
- Access to LinkedIn learning
- Discount program for a range of products and services
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Company paid salary continuance insurance
- Ability to purchase additional leave
- Modern offices with free snacks, drinks, and coffee

Let’s spread the positive energy together

Alinta Energy is a **Circle Back Initiative** employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.

**How to apply**: