Sales Executive

Sales Executive

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our small but very friendly sales team. It’s a very busy role where you’ll be developing great working relationships with our existing customers as well as developing new ones. You will be producing quotes, providing advice, and processing and following up on orders.

• £29,000, plus incentives and commission
• Hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday to Thursday, 8:00am - 3:30pm Friday
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Annual attendance bonus
• Free onsite parking
• Employee referral scheme
• Profit share bonus
• Pension fund
• Health Shield health cash plan
• Trade Cash and Carry discount

• Be responsible for a geographical area to develop and maintain sales and maximise further opportunities from existing and new customers.
• Be responsible for the completion and return of plant tenders on short time scales and assist with general tenders.
• Maintain relationships with clients by providing support, information, guidance and recommending products, maximising sales opportunities, profit, and margin.
• Deal with email and tele-sales enquiries in a responsible way to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Liaise with customers regarding their orders, send order confirmations and discuss alternative plants as required.
• Develop and maintain awareness of the company and its products and use this to help achieve sales.
• Take a pro-active approach to selling the company’s products and services to customers by follow up calls, and occasionally site visits and attending exhibitions.
• Gain and maintain a high degree of market awareness and competitor awareness to identify improvements within the sales function.
• Meet/exceed agreed sales targets and margin targets.
• Prepare weekly sales reports.
• Input sales orders on to SAP following the correct procedures.
• Deal directly with customer complaints in accordance with our procedures.
• Maintain the CRM database, supplying and updating information as appropriate.

• Ability to work to agreed targets
• Computer skills with the ability to use Microsoft Office
• Handling phone calls and emails quickly and effectively
• Direct contact with customers either face to face or on the 'phone/video calls
• Ability to prioritise sales tasks