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Sales Assistant - Builders Merchant

GCS Associates
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 6 days
Location

Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1PX, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Trade Counter Sales role in Chichester offers a competitive salary between £28,000 and £30,000, negotiable based on experience.
  • Candidates must have prior construction supplies sales experience, ideally from the builders merchants or timber sector.
  • The position requires a proactive individual with excellent communication skills and a strong attention to detail.
  • Responsibilities include interacting with customers, generating quotations, and following up to convert them into orders.
  • This role emphasizes customer service and the ability to think on one's feet, making it essential for applicants to demonstrate sound timber knowledge.

Role: Trade Counter Sales

Location: Chichester

Sector: Timber / Building Materials / Construction Supplies / Builders Merchants

Package: £28,000 - £30,000

  • Our client is a successful Building Supplies merchant who require a Trade Counter Sales Professional.
  • Construction Supplies sales experience is essential.
  • A proactive individual is required with great communication skills and strong attention to detail.
  • Excellent package within a fantastic company offering excellent career prospects. Salary is entirely negotiable on experience.

They don't want an order processor!! They need a proactive, sales professional ideally from the supplies or building supplies / builders merchants sector who will go above and beyond.

You will interact with customers over the phone, by email and face to face. Asking questions, finding about the projects the clients are working on, taking quotation enquiries, developing rapport with these people and upselling where possible. You will need to be able to think on your feet and ideally demonstrate sound timber knowledge when called upon.

The other part of the role is working on the quotations, generating the quotes and following these up, turning them into orders. We are looking for a confident individual with high levels of customer service. This role requires someone who is proactive and will pick up the phone and talk to customers!

Key Attributes:

  • Previous experience within an Internal Sales role within the construction supplies / building materials sector e.g. builders merchants, timber merchants or distributor
  • Customer focused
  • Good communication and negotiation

Do you have experience within a builders merchants? Timber merchants? Do you have sales experience with building materials? Then please apply!!

For further information on this Internal Sales role please apply online…

Industry Sector: Landscaping Materials, Timber Merchants, Timber Supplies, Timber Supplier, Building Merchants, Building Supplies, Construction sector. Recruiting Internal Sales, Trade Counter, Sales Negotiators, Sales Executives, Sales Representatives, Assistant Managers, Timber Specialists.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.