Fire Safety Sales Executive

About the role

Pro-Active Fire Safety is a twelve-strong, family-run business based on the Globe Estate in Marlow. We install, service and maintain active fire protection systems — fire alarms, emergency lighting, extinguishers, suppression, fire dampers, AOV smoke ventilation — and we deliver fire safety training. Everything we sell, we deliver ourselves.

We are looking for someone to take that offer out to the market properly. This is not a script-reading phone job. You will be having real conversations with people who are responsible for buildings, working out what their premises actually need under current standards, and putting together maintenance contracts and project quotes that make sense for them.

You will have the whole service behind you: engineers who turn up, certification that stands up to inspection, and a team small enough that you can promise something and know it will happen.

What you will be doing

• Generating new business across the Thames Valley — offices, schools, care settings, industrial units, managing agents and housing providers
• Booking and attending site meetings and surveys, and understanding what each building has installed
• Preparing and presenting quotations for maintenance contracts, remedial works and new installations
• Following up on remedial recommendations from our service visits and converting them into ordered works
• Looking after existing accounts, renewing contracts and spotting where we can do more for a customer
• Working with the operations team so every job you sell can actually be delivered to the date you promised
• Keeping the pipeline and customer records up to date, and reporting on activity and forecast
• Representing us at local networking, trade and industry events

What we are looking for

• A track record in business-to-business sales, ideally in fire, security, building services, M&E or facilities management
• Comfortable prospecting and opening doors, not just managing inherited accounts
• Able to write a clear, accurate quotation and explain it in plain terms to a non-technical customer
• Willing to learn the standards — BS 5839-1 for alarms, BS 5266-1 for emergency lighting, BS 5306 for extinguishers — well enough to advise honestly. We will train you on the technical side
• Full UK driving licence and happy to be out on the road several days a week
• Straight with people. We would rather lose a job than oversell one

How to apply

Send your CV and a short note about what you have sold and where to sales@proactfiresafe.co.uk. If you would like an informal chat about the patch and the package first, call the office.