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Sales Assistant / Administrator
Salary: £18-20K + Benefits incl: 25 days holidays + stats, stakeholder pension scheme & free car parking.

Our Client is a well-established company who supply a wide range of products to various markets including automotive, aerospace, defence and commercial sectors throughout Europe and the UK.

Due to their continued growth they are now seeking to recruit an additional Sales Assistant / Administrator to join their existing team.

You should be highly flexible, self motivated and confident working in a busy fast paced environment. You should also be computer literate with tons of common sense!

Key Responsibilities:

• Respond to customer orders and e-mails
• Follow up order status and reporting of any problems or delays
• Provide excellent customer service skills
• Prepare, organise and manage bespoke customer enquiries / quotations
• Taking phone calls from customers and dealing with their requests
• Communicating internally important feedback from customers.
• Dealing with and responding to high volumes of emails.
• Taking good notes and direction from management to ensure customer needs are met.

Skills & experience required:

• Some sales, account management or sales administration experience, ideally gained in a business to business environment
• Any knowledge / experience of selling or customer service to OEMs would be an advantage
• Experience of web-based sales and distribution would also be an advantage
• Administration experience, ideally gained in a sales environment
• Ambition - looking to develop a career in a fast moving and growing business
• Ability to prioritise own workload.
• Good customer service skills
• Strong communication skills.
• Well versed in IT skills for example Microsoft Office and CRM systems.
• Good Attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet target deadlines

Hours of work for this role are 9am – 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am – 4pm Friday.

The role is permanent and represents an opportunity to join a well-established business that is also growing steadily year on year, with the opportunity to have results and achievements quickly recognised.

Interested? Please send your CV to [email protected] or contact us on 01942 819111 for further information.

Trainee Accounts Assistant
Starting Salary £19-21K + Benefits

Our Client is a very successful independent distributor of speciality products to the construction industry.

Due to their continued growth, they now wish to add a Trainee Accounts Assistant to their small, friendly team based at head office in Leigh.

Reporting to the Finance Director, you will be provided with full, on the job training to undertake day to day accounting activity.

Duties will include:

• Working with the Sales Ledger Accounts Manager to provide credit control and related administration for live customers
• Supporting other day to day accounting activities e.g. remittance reconciliation for buying groups, assisting with processing cash sales and purchases
• Providing telephone and email support to customers and branch colleagues
• Administration duties eg post, document capture / scanning
• Acting as first point of contact for telephone calls and visitors to the office
• Supporting the Finance Director with ad hoc project work as and when needed.

Suitable candidates should have the following:

• Minimum education of GCSE or equivalent, including Maths & English
• Qualifications in finance, mathematics, accounting (such as AAT) or book-keeping would be an advantage but are not essential
• A strong desire to work in an accounts environment
• Experience working in a customer facing / operational environment with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience working in an office environment / administration would be an advantage
• Good basic experience with MS Office especially Excel would be an advantage (training provided)
• Risk analysis skills, or the capacity to develop these with support / training
• Highly organised, focused on attention to detail, and a mindset of getting it right first time
• Able to meet regular deadlines
• Flexible, a team player, and willing to undertake a wide variety of duties for the smooth running of the department.

This role is office based, with hours of work 8am until 5pm Monday to Thursday and 8am until 4pm on Friday, with 1 hour lunch break per day.

Starting salary will be within the range stated above and there is the scope to increase earning potential as you develop into the role. And you’ll be working in a modern, large and airy open plan office in an environment where employees are supported and valued, and alongside a great bunch of people!

Interested? Please email your CV to [Email address hidden] or contact us on 01942 819111 for more information.

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