Sales Administrator

Your new company
Hays are working with a large manufacturing business in Shrewsbury who are looking for a Sales Administrator on a permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity due to significant growth within the business.
Your new role
As a Sales Administrator your role will be to support and provide assistance to external sales representatives through nurturing of customer accounts enabling the retention and development of business opportunities and customer relationships. Duties will include:New Account Set-up to Include:

• Generation and coding of quotes and proposals
• Updating, filling in and creation of order forms
• Support the Management of Customer Accounts
• Updating customer price lists.
• Diary management including booking customer appointments
• Analysis of customer spending patterns and history, and identifying opportunities to maximise revenue and profitability through the use of analysis tools
• Supporting sales colleagues and delivering on activities generated from customer visits
• Support the team in meeting or exceeding agreed personal monthly, quarterly and annual sales goals, profit margins and activity targets
• Prepares sales proposals using existing templates as required by the customer/prospect

What you'll need to succeed
In order to be considered for this role you will need experience in the following:

• Be able to communicate effectively and build partnerships with all levels of internal and external personnel verbally and in writing
• Ability to analyse and interpret data and take appropriate action to maximise sales volume and value
• Account Management Skills - Excellent interpersonal skills to develop and nurture customer relations
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written that encourage customer confidence and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty
• IT - Proficient with MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Knowledge of SAP and Salesforce would be a bonus but not essential
• Time Management - Able to prioritise activities and effectively manage own time to a high standard
• Proven history of proactively collaborating with customers daily with particular emphasis on telephone techniques

What you need to do now

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