Sales Adminstrator

Senior Sales Administrator role with good career progression potential with amanufacturer of premium quality products and components to a wide range of manufacturing industries. **BASIC SALARY**: £22,000 - £28,000 **BENEFITS**: - Pension Scheme - Company Sick Pay - Death in Service Benefit - 25 Days Holidays plus stats **LOCATION**: Ashbourne **COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS**: Mackworth, Derby, Uttoxeter, Belper **JOB DESCRIPTION**: Senior Sales Administrator This is a visible and important role for the company being the senior internal/ office based sales administration person working closely with the Sales Manager. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**: Senior Sales Administrator - Complete sales order processing from start to finish. Dealing with all aspects of the order process and ensuring a high level of service throughout. - Scheduling orders with production agreeing (calculating run times and negotiating acceptable delivery dates). - Raising orders, sending acknowledgements and ensuring agreed dates are met. - Raising Job Sheets & Tabs for production. - Advising the Customer &/or the Account Manager if an order is running behind schedule so that said customer can be informed promptly. - Maintaining customers portfolios, contact details and pricing. - Updating invoice summary with orders raised. - Answering general sales enquiries re lead time, changes to orders and available stock etc.... - Monitoring margins on orders raised and escalating any pricing which falls below 10% (maybe even 15%). - To submit a weekly report on any order/product raised under 15% margin. **PERSON SPECIFICATION**: Senior Sales Administrator To be considered you will: - Have experience in a similar Sales Administrator, Sales Order Processor or Customer Service role with a strong administrative content. - Preferably this will be in an industrial or technical environment with the ability to learn about a wide range of products and technical information. - Be an organised team player with excellent interpersonal skills to deal with decision makers at clients and internal personnel. - Have excellent attention to detail. **THE COMPANY**: Established for over 35 years, my client has £4m+ annual turnover and 50 staff. They are the only UK manufacturer and market leader in the supply of a particular type of specialist products and components to shop fitting/retail markets. They supply a "who'swho" of major multiple retailers direct and via shop fitting companies, alsoconstruction, lighting, furniture, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, sport leisure, flooring, office products, packaging, toy, automotive modular buildings and caravan manufacturers amongstothers. Part of their growth plan is to diversify into and grow new markets. **PROSPECTS**: Potential to assume responsibility for managing the internal sales/admin function for the company. It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services:Sales Administrator, Customer Service, Sales Order Processor, Account Manager,Internal Sales Administrator. **REF**: RP16644, Wallace Hind Selection