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Job title: Sales Team Leader
Reference: E113961
Location: Bolton
Duration: Permanent
Start date: asap
Salary:£35,000 + bens, 24 days holidays, 37.5 hour working week with a 2.30 pm Friday finish
GPW are partnering exclusively with a specialist manufacturer based in Bolton to recruit a Sales Team Leader on a permanent basis.
Reporting to the Sales & Marketing Director, you will proactively manage the Central Parts Sales Team ensuring excellent quality of service and customer care.
Key responsibilities as the Sales Team Leader are leadership and management of staff to ensure all tasks are carried out promptly and efficiently. To drive an overall increase in parts sales thereby achieving sales and margin targets.
Responsibilities:
Leadership
- Lead the Sales team by giving clear target and customer service driven focus towards the achievement of the agreed monthly/annual sales and margin targets.
- Ensure the team has access to and can provide technical and professional sales support.
- Lead, manage and motivate the Central Sales team to ensure they carry out their roles and duties to the required standard.
- Ensure all team members receive adequate training, supervision and management together with clearly defined roles, responsibilities, duties and time management and have a full understanding of the expectations of their role.
- Ensure each team member has clear targets and responsibilities and monitor their effectiveness. Hold regular meetings to discuss continued and sustained improvements in performance.
Sales Performance
- Actively promote the brand by customer visits and regular telephone contact (both incoming and out-going calls) both to enhance existing and create new business.
- Ensure all team members produce accurate quotations/orders and follow Company procedures with regard to despatch of goods, design/production of correct product by completely accurate and complete production/sales orders.
- Process payments within the Company Procedures and maintain accurate records.
- Expedite orders as required. Continually review for accuracy/adverse trends and amend as required.
- Monitor the performance of ERP sales and work with operations to ensure on-time delivery.
Sales Development
- Research the market to identify potential new account customers, make appropriate approaches with a view to increasing the company customer base.
- Create and sustain professional rapport with key accounts ensuring regular contact is made to ascertain buying requirements.
- Carry out strategic planning and reviews for the Sales function in consultation with the Sales & Marketing Director.
- Provide detailed annual/quarterly sales forecasts to the Finance and Production Teams taking into account seasonality, historic trends and industry knowledge.
- Liaise with the Marketing Team regarding special offers, sales literature, social media posts, etc. as required.
- Any other duties deemed reasonable on request.
Benefits as the Sales Team Leader include:
- Salary £35,000 pa
- 37.5 hour working week with a 2.30 pm Friday finish
- 24 days holiday plus the 8 bank holidays
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme after qualifying period
- Free on site parking
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