Internal Sales / Trade Counter Sales
Full job description
Rhodium Consulting
Salary: £36,000 per year
Vacancy Ref – JR1475
Role: Internal Sales / Trade Counter person
Industry: Electrical Wholesale
Location – Bedford, Bedfordshire
Working hours – Monday to Friday 7.30am to 5pm
Salary – up to circa £36,000basic + bonuses
Rhodium Consulting is recruiting for an Internal Sales / trade counter person with great electrical product knowledge to join our ambitious and successful client in the electrical wholesale industry.
The role will involve working within a team of people dealing with pricing enquiries, technical queries and sales orders. A proportion of the role will be reactive calls dealing with incoming queries but this role is ideal for an individual with good outbound proactive sales experience with success at winning new business.
Responsibilities will include:
Handling enquiries
Regular phone contact of customers to secure orders on electrical wholesale products
Setting up new customers, payments terms
Raising Quotations for customer orders
Progressing queries
Providing technical advice where required
Reactive and proactive telephone sales
Serving customers at the trade counter
Developing the customer base by regular contact
Use of computer system including quotations, enquiries, back orders
Skills Required:
Experience of the Electrical wholesale sector is a distinct advantage (this must be current or very recent)
Excellent knowledge of electrical products
Knowledge of LED Lighting
Polished communication skills (written and verbal)
Computer literate (inc Microsoft Office)
Enjoys speaking to people on the phone
Reliable and committed working attitude with great organisational skills
A hard-working team player with a flexible and helpful attitude
A self-motivated, professional who understands the importance of getting the job done and responding to the customer as promised, efficient and effective.
Positive with a friendly “can do” attitude.
A good listener who is keen to learn, develop new skills and “get on” in the business.
It is essential that you have recent electrical wholesale experience with good sales experience.
You will have a good understanding of the electrical wholesale industry and be able to communicate with a wide variety of people.
Salary up to £36,000dependent on skills and experience + bonuses
All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
Rhodium Consulting Ltd is a niche recruitment consultancy specialising in wholesalers, merchants and distributors within the building products sector. We strive to be the industry leader in delivering the highest calibre of candidates to our client companies, whilst enhancing the careers of our candidates. For further information and contact details, please apply.
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