Sales Administrator

Sales Administrator

Golborne Location (WA3 3JD)

Monday – Friday (20 hours per week – flexible)

£15ph

Initial 6 Month Fixed Term Contract 

At ALPLA, we stand for high-quality plastic packaging throughout the world.

Around 22,000 colleagues produce quality packaging for foodstuffs, cosmetics and industrial cleaning brands for many blue chip clients across 182 ALPLA sites in 46 countries.

At our Golborne site (5 mins from the J22 or J23 M6) based on the East Lancs Road, we employ over 270 colleagues’ who produce a number of packaging solutions on a 24/7 basis for major international customers.

Main purpose of Sales Administrator:

To act in an administrative capacity supporting the Sales Manager/Team

Duties and Responsibilities (not limited to)

• Calculate, update and distribute pricing for customers
• Maintain internal price list
• Liaise with corporate head office and other European sites
• Monitor and record price movements
• Produce reports for customers on sales figures, material movements, stock levels and price reconciliations
• Support UK and Corporate teams, other Alpla sites and customers with sales queries
• Fulfilment of sample requests, maintaining sample stocks and/or requesting stock from production or quality as needed
• Booking of travel, including hotels, taxis, flights, conferences and meeting rooms
• Purchasing of sundry items (office supplies, subscriptions and catering)
• Reply to general enquiries addressed to the Alpla office email address

Experience / Education

• Strong administrative experience, dealing with sensitive data/inputting of figures
• Proficient and confident with Excel and Outlook
• Able to prioritise tasks effectively.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Highly organised, detail orientated.
• Minimum Maths & English GCSE or equivalent (Business administration qual would be advantageous)

*Full training provided on all internal systems/software

Contact Kerry McCormick to discuss this opportunity with ALPLA UK.