Internal Sales Administrator (6 month FTC)

Are you an excellent communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders on all levels? Do you take pride in your abilities at building your customer relationships?  

If you, like us, keep the customer at the heart of everything that you do then we have the perfect role for you!

What you will do

We, at Travis Perkins, have a brilliant opportunity to join us for a 6 month contract working 30 hours a week (being able to work in the afternoon is a must) National Sales Assistant to join our collaborative and thriving Sales Office team based in our Head Office within Northampton. In this role you will coordinate inbound calls and orders for customers, offering a single point contact for pricing and ordering for our large National customers. Linking with our branch network, manufacturers and National Account Managers, you will partner with them to contribute to our sales growth through proactive customer engagement.

Is this you? 

We are after someone who’s enthusiastic, resilient and resourceful, with a sharp eye for identifying new sales opportunities and a passion for excellence. Being well-organised and planned goes without saying, as you will be responsible for meeting our valued customer expectations.

The successful candidate will ideally have:

- Proven ability of working within a sales negotiator type role.

- Strong administrative skills

- Great customer services skills

- Good product knowledge within the building materials/merchant industry

- Build strong relationships with multiple customer and internal stakeholders

- Proven experience in identifying new sale opportunities and creating solutions for customers

But what can we offer you?

Recognised as one of Britain’s Top Employers: offering you the opportunity to fulfil your potential in a forward thinking company that still believes in upholding family values - and putting our colleagues and customers at the heart of our growing business ensuring we are making decent returns. Despite our size, we’ve got the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition.

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

Competitive bonus
Save-as-you-earn scheme
Buy-as-you-earn scheme
Contributory pension scheme
Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses including; special discounts across our Trade Merchanting businesses.