Sales Co-ordinator

Sales Co-Ordinator

My client a leading manufacturing company based in Blackburn is looking for an experienced Sales Coordinator to join their sales team on a permanent basis.

HOURS OF WORK: 9am - 5pm Monday - Friday (40hrs including paid breaks).

There is opportunity to work from home and some flexibility once fully trained.

LOCATION: Based at one of the company’s main manufacturing sites in Blackburn, with easy access to the M65 and just 10 minutes from the centre of Blackburn. You must live within easy daily commuting distance, so you’ll probably be living or looking for work in the Blackburn, Preston, Bolton, or Burnley areas.

**SALARY DETAILS: £25,000.00 pa dependent on experience.**

After training, in your role as Sales Coordinator you will be acting as a bridge, liaising with customers, sales staff, and various factories and departments within the company, dealing with orders from first enquiry though to delivery of finished goods, and working closely with planning, purchasing, and warehousing / distribution department to ensure the efficient delivery of finished products.

**Some of your main duties and responsibilities include**:

- Taking enquiries and processing new and established customers’ orders.
- Dealing with artwork from initial stages through to customer approval.
- Providing customer service regarding enquiries, queries, and complaints.
- Maintaining and updating customer pricing information.
- Inputting and tracking orders from receipt to delivery.
- Co-ordinating cost recovery on originations and obsolete finished goods.
- Creating and using excel spreadsheets.
- You must have a full driving license as occasional travel may be required to customers and other company sites.

**Qualifications**:

- With solid sales/sales support and customer service experience, ideally but not necessarily from an FMCG manufacturing environment, you will be an experienced Sales Co-Ordinator, Internal Sales Support Coordinator, Sales Order Processor, Customer Service Coordinator, or similar.
- You will be an excellent all-round communicator with strong customer service skills, a good telephone manner, call handling skills and order intake experience, and someone who able to work as part of a team while at the same time being capable of taking full ownership of this important part of the process.
- A naturally upbeat and positive personality with the ability to think quickly when responding to customer needs, you will be well organised and able to priories workloads, demonstrate excellent attention to detail, and have strong IT skills including Microsoft Word and Excel. Must be comfortable sitting in an open-plan office.

This is a great chance to become part of the team with a business that encourages long-term career development and progression, and which supports employees throughout their careers.