Anyvan
Sales Executive - German Speaking
Cape Town, Remote. Posted 9 months ago
The role
You will convert inbound enquiries into confirmed bookings by running live reverse auctions between suppliers. You will manage your own pipeline, negotiate rates, and upsell services to drive booked revenue.
What you will do
- Manage pipeline end-to-end including response time, follow-ups, conversion, margin, and booked revenue
- Contact customers within minutes to qualify leads and maintain momentum
- Run live reverse auctions with transport partners to secure rates
- Negotiate with customers and suppliers to protect margin and booking quality
- Drive enquiries to booked outcomes or timed follow-ups
- Upsell services to increase booking value
- Track daily activity, conversion, and revenue
Required qualifications
- Proven success in a high-performance, target-driven sales environment
- Strong negotiation ability and commercial instinct
- Strong communicator who can build rapport quickly
- Comfort handling objections, controlling calls, and closing confidently
- Excellent pipeline discipline and follow-up execution
- Enthusiasm, resilience, and hunger to succeed
- Attention to detail
- Ability to learn fast
- Ability to thrive in a buzzing, supportive sales floor
- Speak and write both German and English fluently
Nice to have
- experience in logistics/freight brokerage
- 360° recruitment
- estate agency
- car sales
- insurance broking
- marketplace businesses
Benefits
- Competitive Salary - Great base + Uncapped Commission
- 20 days annual leave
- ZAR1000 pr month towards cover with Momentum/Discovery
- 5% you, 5% us
- Free parking or transport home after 7pm
- In-house barista coffee
- free breakfast every day
- Weekly drinks
- fun socials
- rewards that take you places
About the company
AnyVan is a fast-scaling online marketplace across Europe that uses logistics technology to fill empty vans. The team consists of 400 people across London, Cape Town and Bogota.