account executive trade marketplace

Checkatrade is the UK’s leading platform for finding tradespeople, with more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews. It helps homeowners get jobs done right and enables tradespeople to grow their businesses.

• Win new trade businesses by identifying high-potential small and medium trades, building proposals, negotiating terms, and handing them over to the onboarding team;
• Use data and insights to identify market opportunities, regional strengths, growth areas, and new opportunities;
• Partner with Account Management, Vetting, Product, and Operations to identify regions and categories that can benefit most from Checkatrade;
• Develop deep product expertise and build tailored business cases for prospects;
• Own the outbound sales cycle from prospecting and qualification through proposals, negotiation, and closing deals.

• Solid experience in commercial or new business sales, ideally in similar markets, with a strong focus on outbound acquisition;
• Proven track record of identifying new clients, building tailored proposals, and hitting revenue targets;
• Ability to build strong relationships with tradespeople and work closely with internal teams;
• Confidence managing multiple priorities and working across teams to improve processes;
• Experience building customer relationships through digital outreach or face-to-face conversations;
• Tenacity, motivation, and resilience in a fast-moving test-and-learn environment;
• Nice to have: familiarity with CRM systems such as Salesforce, outbound tools, and AI-powered optimisation tools.

• Competitive salary + commission;
• Health, well-being and learning support;
• Gym membership, Smart Tech Scheme and Cycle Scheme;
• Birthday/Special day leave;
• Buy & sell holiday scheme;
• 1 Week’s paid charity leave and much more!;
• This role operates 4 days in our Moorgate office;
• This role isn’t open to visa sponsorship applications.