Sales Lead (Outbound Contact Centre)

Company: The Economist
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Location: Chinatown
Job Description:

Requirements

  • Working knowledge and proven success in the delivery of outbound sales campaigns
  • Expertise in influencing and managing all OBTM levers
  • Ability to set up new tests and campaigns and associated processes, reporting and training
  • Successful candidates are those who are able to demonstrate previous work experience within a contact centre environment (either in-house or outsourced) and indicate such experience on their resume
  • Sales-driven mindset and enjoys achieving targets
  • Direct experience of working in a sales / retention team within a contact centre
  • Working knowledge of delivering sales activity to the standards of a quality assurance programme within a contact centre setting
  • Vendor management experience (preferable)
  • Understands and implements an appropriate balance between sales and quality
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • High level of attention to detail
  • Coaching and performance management skills
  • Proactive with a sense of urgency
  • Self-motivated driven to succeed

What the job involves

  • The sales activity consists of inbound telephone and live chat, plus outbound calling campaigns.
  • You will play a key role by leading the outbound activity, also with involvement in supporting the inbound activity.
  • As the Sales and Retention Lead, Customer Engagement Centres you will proactively collaborate on a range of activities to drive excellence in both sales performance and quality, including areas such as review of results, customer contacts, scripting and training materials – making suggestions and developing new initiatives, as well as completing checks and monitoring.
  • Lead the successful delivery of the outbound telemarketing sales activity.
  • Develop and deliver new testing and activity to support the outbound strategy.
  • Achieve agreed targets by proactively driving sales performance and quality assurance through the OBTM channel.
  • Lead daily calls with outsourced contact centre, providing guidance and feedback around performance metrics and identifying areas of best practice and improvement.
  • Ensure activity delivered by outsource partner is aligned to standards in all aspects of operational delivery, including targets, process and quality requirements.
  • Support inbound sales channel as required.
  • Use reporting and data to analyse and drive performance.
  • Manage the quality process and ensure our contact centre partner is fully calibrated with requirements.
  • Spend regular time on site at outsourced contact centre(s) to support and drive sales and quality performance.
  • Get involved with ad hoc projects which relate to the goals of the Sales team, for example – reporting development, systems improvements and deep dives on key themes.

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Posted: June 5th, 2026