Internal Sales

Tipton

9 months ago

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We are recruiting an Internal Salesperson to work for a thriving business in Tipton. The ideal candidate will have strong sales and commercial skills and be familiar with a busy sales office environment. We are looking for someone who wants to grow and develop with the business.

Main requirements:

Povide first-line response for all incoming sales enquiries to the office.
Liaise consistently with potential and existing customers on enquiries and order details to always provide the most professional and efficient response.
Support the internal team with the processing of sales orders and customer requirements to ensure translation of customer requirements is accurate.
Actively prospect and identify new customer opportunities within a national target area and follow up to consistently win new business revenues.
Provide support on marketing requirements, both internally and via external resources.
Proactively contact new potential customers and provide detailed and accurate quotations for supply of goods and services.
Constantly review pricing and margins, managing margin growth where possible without losing customers and revenue.
Provide support in setting annual sales and commercial budgets alongside management personnel.
Meet and surpass monthly and quarterly sales targets and agreed KPI's.
Provide effective and professional management to customers to ensure continued and repeat business.
Liaise with external suppliers as necessary to provide additional value-added products and services to our standard commercial proposition.
Identify new and additional products to be added to the existing portfolio offered by the business that will offer increased revenue growth.
Provide regular reports to management on all sales and commercial requirements as required.
Undertake general administrative duties within the capability of the employee as required by the business.
The successful candidate will have the following skills:
We are looking for someone with strong sales and commercial skills and be familiar with a busy sales office environment
Strong inter-personal skills and the ability to communicate with customers, suppliers and internal staff are imperative to ensuring consistent operations are maintained
A disciplined and highly organised mindset is key to the day-to-day business and will allow the candidate to grow and"
The ideal candidate would have knowledge and experience of selling steel cladding and flashings into the commercial and agricultural sectors, but other products into the roofing market would also be beneficial.
A knowledge of steel manufacturing businesses would be considered.
In return the company will provide full product support and training, a competitive salary, the opportunity to develop their career

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