Junior Sales Support Executive
Vacancy Ref: 16754 KM
The Company:
A food and fresh produce business.
The Job Role:
As a Junior Sales Support Executive you will be responsible for supporting the Sales and Procurement departments with various different duties in the most efficient way in order to fulfil customer's orders and maintain continuity of supply within the guidelines given.
Location: Evesham - Office Based role
Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8.00am -17.00pm (7.00 - 16.00 flexibility - with some flexibility to cover holidays).
Salary: £25,000 - £30,000 per year depending on experience + Pension + Free Onsite Parking
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
As a Junior Sales Support Executive, it will be your job to initially manage the sales admin function but then to progress into the Sales role function within our wholesale department.
Sales Admin: To generate purchase and sales orders into the computer system. To maintain and generate items and suppliers in system. To organise collections and distribution of goods with our haulier.
Communication with finance and sales admin team in regards to customers payments and credit limits.
To verify depot stock levels and availability at source.
To plan and forecast produce quantities required to ensure sufficient stock is procured to fulfil orders and to avoid wastage.
To help and establish supplier volumes through crop planning to ensure continuous supply to fulfil service level agreements.
To help and examine and assess all consignments and effectuate the claim process where required.
To help and reconcile, analyse and investigate stock movement and discrepancies to ensure correct invoicing and service levels with customers.
To organise, negotiate internally and with 3rd party to ensure correct quality levels on arrival, accurate delivery times, to maintain planned cost prices and continuity of supply chain and corporate level agreements.
Promote, develop and manage customer relationships to maintain sales, elevate growth, uphold our supplier reputation and deliver on service level agreements.
Uphold awareness of costs within the supply chain to maintain and increase profit margins and maximise both customer and supplier profit potential
Candidate Skills and Requirements:
GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Retail sales: 1 year (preferred)
Customer service: 1 year (preferred)
Driving Licence (preferred)
Good interpersonal and communication skills both over the phone for day to day trading and face to-face for meeting suppliers/ customers alike.
Be numerate.
Have excellent negotiation and organisational abilities.
Must be able to cope well under pressure.
Be computer literate with good working knowledge of the Microsoft suite of business tools (excel; word; PowerPoint; outlook)
Be customer focused.
Able to work to tight deadlines.
Be flexible as role requires some weekend cover (on rotation within the team)
Demonstrate self-confidence and professionalism.
Able to work both in a team and on own initiative
Be mobile - car driver and able to visit markets when needed and suppliers in the UK and globally
Keywords:
Food, Junior Sales Executive, Sales Jobs, Sales Support, Food Jobs, Fresh Produce, Evesham, Customer Service, Wholesale, Sales, Sales Admin.
How to apply: Please click on the APPLY NOW button. Please send your CV to; Kate Moxon - Managing Director |
We thank all applicants who apply for this role. However, please be advised that only those short listed for an interview will be contacted. Please be assured that your job application will be managed in complete confidence and your personal details will not be passed to any third party without your prior permission. Established in 2013, Agricultural and Farming Jobs provide outstanding recruitment head-hunting and job advertising services. We are the trusted recruitment partner of choice to industry leading organisations across the UK and Internationally. We recruit specifically for all roles within the sectors of: Agriculture, Farming, Horticulture, Food and Fresh Produce, Vet, Pet and Animal Health, Agrochemicals, Fertilisers and Seeds, Software and Technology, Machinery, Technical and Engineering and specialist Education.
