Electrical Wholesale – Assistant Manager/ Internal Sales – Brentwood Full-time Permanent

Tribe Search are pleased to be partnering with a leading Electrical Wholesale in the Brentwood area to bring in to the Team an Assistant Manager/ Internal Sales Representative to join a thriving team.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Profit Sharing
• Pension Scheme with Life Assurance Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free Flu Jabs
• Sick Pay
• Career development with a highly respected, well-established employer
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

What can you expect from us?

• Excellent, Professional Sales Training, as required
• Personal Development coaching
• Product and Market Knowledge Training
• World class customer service back up
• A fun & inclusive environment where you can develop great relationships with colleagues and customers alike.
• The potential to further develop your career with the Company, possibly to Branch Manager.

Essential

• Professionally presentable individual.
• Able to create and maintain genuine and strong personal relationships with all customers, through trust, honesty and integrity, and a genuine interest in the customers business.
• Good communication skills and able to get on well with other team members.
• Reliable and excellent work ethic.
• Good product and industry knowledge.
• Good commercial experience and negotiation skills.
• Good industry knowledge is essential.

Main Duties

• Regular calls on existing, dormant and cold call opportunities, with the key objective in maximising the potential sales and profit to be gained from the customer base.
• Managing a call plan to create an effective sales presence with all customers, but also be able to react to project opportunities or issues that need to be dealt with urgently.
• Create a strong personal relationship with all ‘stakeholders’ in the customer business, including Buyers, but other key staff – Estimators, Directors and site operations staff.
• Promote the key features of our service and stock availability, to put us in the best position to receive orders and enquiries.
• Obtain Project Quote opportunities from customers, and identify new sales opportunities for products that are currently being ordered elsewhere.
• Always present a professional image, and act with honesty and integrity in all dealings with customers, and respond to customer enquiries promptly and effectively.
• Create excellent rapport with other team members, to maximise the support that you receive, to give the customer the best experience.
• Promote new products and market changes, to keep the customer updated as much as possible. Showing new product samples is a key skill that we are looking for.
• Ensuring that customers are fully up to date with promotional activities and promotional events that are put on.
• Provide excellent feedback to the Branch Manager on any customer matters that are relevant, so action can be taken promptly.
• Rota to work one Saturday a month
• Direct assistance and reporting to managers
• Overseeing day-to-day operations