Senior Sales Advisor

**We’re currently recruiting for a Senior Sales Advisor in Jewson Woking (GU21 4NQ)**

A **Senior Sales Advisor** is an essential role within the branch network, you will build relationships with customers and understand their wider requirements in order to maximise sales growth. You will be in regular contact with our customers and therefore you play a huge part in delivering a fantastic customer experience.

**Jewson **is one of more than 30 exciting Saint-Gobain brands in the UK and we pride ourselves on doing everything we can to understand our customers’ needs in order to deliver solutions to save them time, money and hassle. Our colleagues are critical to our customers’ success and you will be working with a team that proactively supports them in every way possible.

If you love working with people, you’re a good listener and you think you could help our customers feel welcome, then this could be a great opportunity for you to join our team at Jewson Woking
- **Is this role right for me? **_

First and foremost, we always want to recruit great people that really understand our values and ways of working. So if you have a passion for delivering great customer service, always look to put the customer first; can build trust and are able to proactively seek out solutions that are right for our customers, then you are likely to be a great fit **A few specifics we are looking for are**:

- Experience working within a Builders Merchants would be extremely beneficial
- An understanding of the construction materials industry
- A strong Sales focus with experience in a similar role
- Passion for delivering great customer service
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative as part of a team
- Demonstrable customer service focus

**Hours of Work: 7:00am-17:00pm Monday to Friday and 8:00am-12:00pm every other Saturday**

**_What will I be doing? _**

As this role has a strong focus on sales, we are looking for someone who loves to build relationships with customers and proactively generate sales both face to face and over the phone. In order to support our customers and deliver a great service you will;
- Maximising customer interactions to support achievement of sales and profit targets through upselling and cross-selling relevant products offering specific product advice
- Developing new customer accounts and lapsed accounts
- Build strong, effective relationships with customers and suppliers, managing feedback accordingly
- Ensuring all customer orders are fulfilled in a timely fashion
- Supporting all Company initiatives
- Following plans to continuously improve customer experience
- Understanding local market issues and communicate to Manager to support sales growth plans
- Advise customers on trading terms and conditions and information in relation to customer accounts and credit levels
- **What will we offer you?**_

At Saint-Gobain we pride ourselves on being innovative, customer focused, agile, open and engaging and entrepreneurial. We are also proud to have been named a ‘Top Employer’ for 5 consecutive years. As part of our benefits package we are pleased to offer you:

- A competitive salary
- A discretionary bonus scheme
- Opportunities for career progression and development
- 31 days’ holiday (including bank holidays), plus the option to buy or sell additional days
- A defined contribution pension scheme
- Great discounts across high street chains, online stores and holiday agents
- Saint-Gobain Life Assurance Scheme
- Access to a leading health and wellbeing portal

**_Are Jewson and Saint-Gobain an Inclusive employer?_**

We’re working hard to be, and we’re keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else that makes you, you

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

**_And what about flexibility?_**

The world of work is changing, and at Saint-Gobain we are open to new ways of working in order to attract talented people to our business. We understand that everyone has different needs and commitments. Therefore, we are very open to discuss any flexible requirement or need that you may have for this role (this could be flexible hours, a job share, part time, to name a few). We can’t guarantee to meet all requests for flexibility when we are recruiting, but we promise to listen.

**Job Types**: Permanent, Full-time

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Store discount
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Application question(s):
Reference ID: GBR0935