Customer Sales Representative

**Jewson** are actively looking for an experienced **Customer Sales Representative** to join us in our **Woking branch**

A **Customer Sales Representative** is an essential role within the branch network and an important support to the branch management. 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.

We are open to considering anyone for this role, ideally sales experience is desired but training is provided where needed. We are looking for someone who is a team player, willingness to learn and enthusiasm to thrive within our team in **Woking **(GU21 4NQ).**

**_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
- Experience of working in an inbound sales role, with a curious and proactive approach
- Passion for delivering great customer service and leading by example
- A good level of IT literacy
- The ability to organise and manage workload well

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

**_What will I be doing? _**

As a Customer Sales Representative, you’ll be the face (and voice) of the business, often the first point of contact a customer has with us. You’ll chat with customers throughout the day, both on the phone and in branch, helping them find the materials they need for their projects and converting these in to orders.

You’ll get the opportunity to build relationships, negotiate prices and generate sales each day, along with handling cash transactions, placing direct sales orders, organising delivery times and keeping customers informed once their orders are placed - all while giving the customer a fantastic service.
- Get to know our products and services in order to maximise all customer interactions
- Developing new customer accounts and lapsed accounts
- Supporting branch management and the wider team
- Build strong, effective relationships with customers and suppliers, managing feedback accordingly
- Ensuring all customer orders are fulfilled in a timely fashion
- Following plans to continuously improve customer experience

**_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**: Full-time, Permanent

**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: GBR09355