Job Description

Product Sales Advisor in Newcastle-under-Lyme

Salary: up to £30000pa
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Working Pattern: Office-Based

Are you an experienced Product Sales Advisor who enjoys turning enquiries into orders? Appointments Personnel is recruiting for a Product Sales Advisor in Newcastle-under-Lyme to join the internal sales team at a family-owned engineering and manufacturing business. If you have a sales office background, enjoy quoting, negotiating and closing, and want to sell street furniture, shelters, covered walkways and playground equipment, this could be the role for you.

The Role
As a Product Sales Advisor, you’ll be the main point of contact for customers across local authorities, schools and colleges, architects and contractors. You’ll give technical and sales advice, prepare quotations and follow them up to win the order. It’s a varied, target-focused role in a friendly internal sales team at the company’s headquarters in Chesterton.

Key Responsibilities

• Give technical and sales advice to customers by telephone and in writing.
• Prepare written quotations using the in-house CRM system, and confirm customers have received them.
• Follow up quotations with prospective clients, develop sales leads and close the sale.
• Negotiate to secure the best deal for both the customer and the company.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships through excellent service and communication.
• Find new leads using project and lead subscription services, the web and social media across a range of market sectors.
• Keep project notes, customer details and contact data up to date in the CRM database.
• Arrange appointments, plan meetings with new and existing contacts, and provide weekly reports on order activity and forecasts.

Skills and Experience
To be successful in this Product Sales Advisor role, you’ll ideally have:

• A background in a sales office, with experience in negotiation, order closing, sales development and product cross-selling (office-based sales negotiation or order closing experience is preferred).
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise the best sales leads and work to deadlines.
• Confident, clear written and verbal communication, and the ability to work with colleagues and clients at all levels.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a high level of accuracy, with minimal supervision.
• Good admin and computer skills, including experience of CRM database systems and a full working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• A positive, can-do attitude.

Salary and Benefits

• Competitive market salary.
• Permanent, full-time position.
• Company pension.
• 25 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays.
• On-site car parking.

Working Hours and Location

• Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:00, with additional hours as may be required.
• Full-time, office-based at the company’s headquarters in Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme.

How to Apply
If you’re interested in this Product Sales Advisor job in Newcastle-under-Lyme and have the sales office experience we’re looking for, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today with your up-to-date CV.