A Sales Support Administrator required for an expanding busy Specialist Automatic Gate & Barrier company covering London & the South East.
Working alongside the Managing Director to assist with the timely response to external quote and tender requests, to increase conversion rates for quoted work, this will in-turn allow more work to be won and increased sales turnover and more importantly margin protection and profit.
Key Responsibilities:
Sales Admin
- Respond to enquiries from potential clients
- Manage Directors and own diaries
- Update and administer sales KPI’s & pipeline tracker
- Print off and set up sales documentation electronically and hard copy.
Procurement
- Preparation of a schedule of works to be quoted by suppliers.
- Deploy quote requests to suppliers.
- Chase suppliers for responses.
- Liaise with suppliers and customers on queries.
- Consolidate information for quoting
Cost Preparation and Internal Costing
- Set up and populate the quotation document.
- Liaise with internal team members to agree rates and times required for tasks.
Manage and Execute the Sales Process
- Sending out quotations in a timely manor
- Customer follow-ups and liaison
- Lease with accounts for deposits
-Business development material.
Operations Liaison
- Ops sense checking.
- Create handover pack for Ops.
- Handover of completed ordered work.
Marketing
- Update Website on a weekly basis
- Keep social media up to date
- Update Check a trade
Core Competencies/ Skills required for this role:
- Highly organised.
- Good numerical skills.
- Competent with Excel, Word, Office 365
- Very detail orientated.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Ability to work on own and within a team
- Excellent communication skills both verbally and written
- Forward thinking and self-motivated
- The ability to learn new skills
Essential Experience:
- Completing documentation and working on own inactive.
- Comfortable with CRM's, Email, Websites, Excel, Word
- Great Verbal & Written abilities.
- Good Numerical Skills
- Fantastic attention to detail & highly organised
- Flexible with a can do attitude
Hours of work will be 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Friday
This role is office based.
You will contribute to the company's future growth by delivering an outstanding work ethic and maintaining the company's excellent reputation in the market as well as suggesting ways to improve and enhance processes and ways of working.