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Internal Sales Executive - Builders Merchants

GCS Associates
Posted 14 days ago, valid for 11 days
Location

Uckfield, East Sussex TN22 2EG, England

Salary

£25,000 - £30,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The role is for an Internal Sales Executive located in East Sussex, specifically Uckfield/Ringmer, within the Timber and Building Materials sector.
  • The position offers a salary range of £36,000 to £42,000, with the potential for negotiation based on experience.
  • Candidates must have previous internal sales experience in the builders merchants industry and demonstrate proven sales skills.
  • The role requires a proactive individual with excellent customer service, communication, and negotiation skills, who can engage with clients and generate quotations.
  • The company is well-respected and offers excellent career prospects, focusing on building relationships with large house builders and developers.

Role: Internal Sales Executive

Location: East Sussex - Uckfield/Ringmer

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

Package: £36,000 - £42,000

With a network of branches our client supplies a range of building products to the construction sector.

This successful branch is looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced Internal Sales Executive to join their busy sales office. Please bear in mind the ideal candidate will have experience of working within the merchants. Sales experience is also definitely required and knowledge of the area and projects would also be beneficial.

This is a very important role for our client. We don't want an order processor!! We need a proactive, hungry sales professional from the 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 product 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! Confidence and attention to detail is key.

The company deals with many large House Builders and Developers. It's fair to say this will be the focus of the role but the job is varied and you will deal with sub contractos, builders and manufacturers. This a very well-respected and highly successful business.

You must have experience of selling within the builders merchants world for this role. The sales skills you have must be proven too, so it's basically a combination that's required including product knowledge relevant sales skills

Excellent package within a fantastic company offering excellent career prospects. Salary is entirely negotiable on experience.

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
  • Results driven
  • Team player
  • Detail conscious
  • Personable
  • Business focused

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

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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.