Sales Administrator

This company are an expanding UK Electrical Distributor looking for a Sales Assistant who is willing to work hard and grow with the company.

The Sales Assistant will report directly to the Managing Director and to provide an efficient and responsive administrative, organisational, and logistical service to the MD, helping him to manage and prioritise his time. You will be responsible for providing full secretarial assistance to Directors and during absences will ensure a high level of service is maintained.

Main duties

- Manage and maintain the MD's diary and daily instructions
- Filter telephone calls
- Organise inbound
- Conduct weekly diary meetings with the MD
- Coordinate travel and accommodation requirements
- Prepare correspondence on behalf of the Directors
- Minute general meetings as required

Additional duties

- To attend supervision of the whole office and warehouse, training and meetings as and when required
- You may be required to perform other ad-hoc tasks around the Office that may be deemed necessary
- Manage office filing system
- Purchase and Sales Ledgers and Petty Cash
- Order Processing
- Order entry
- Maintaining all customer sales records in a detail-oriented process

Sales and Sales Support

- Research, prospect, cold call as well as call existing clients and follow up Daily new leads
- Provide support for the Sales Team and Sales Agents when they are in and away from their offices
- Deal with routine requests from customers, such as requests for price quotes or delivery dates

Essential Requirements

Candidates must have experience in sales and sales support, undertaking duties such as secretarial tasks, sales (communicate with existing customers and cold calling). Or sales administration duties such as order processing, purchase and sales ledgers, book keeping and updating customer records etc.

Salary: £18,000 to £22,000 /year The salary will be based on experience and market knowledge.