Sales Coordinator

Sales Coordinator

Permanent role

Central Leicester location

£28,000 starting salary

This integral role is based within a highly successful family business in the heart of Leicester. This position interfaces with all areas of the business including suppliers and customers. You will need to have a positive attitude, be happy to work in an environment with changing priorities and be confident using MS Office systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Processing customer orders via purchase orders, email and phone calls into the system.
• Building rapport with customers, ensuring they have an excellent quality of service.
• Maintaining customer database and records.
• Checking orders and data accuracy.
• Printing of delivery labels.
• Updating customer pricelists.
• Answering incoming calls.
• Managing filing systems.
• General office administration using MS Office 
• Providing administrative support to other teams including production and technical colleagues
• Reporting on sales statistics using your excellent numerical skills 
• Some support with accreditations administration as and when required.

Ideal experience

• Proven work experience as Sales Administrator or Sales Support.
• Excellent organisational and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to prioritise workloads.
• Strong communication skills, excellent written and verbal English and ideally spoken Gujarati
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel.
• Confident in written and verbal client communication
• Ability to work independently and in teams.
• Accuracy and attention to detail, ability to work to deadlines.
• Mindful of H&S and some knowledge of HACCP would be useful.
• Problem solving skills.
• Providing administrative support to the business including ad-hoc duties pertaining to the smooth running of the business.

In return, you will receive:

• A Starting salary of £28,000pa
• Company pension scheme
• 28 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays
• Friendly family business where people tend to stay long-term!
• Full time hours- 7am-4pm, Monday to Friday 1 hour for lunch.