Sales Account Manager
- Employer
- Michael Page Sales
- Location
- England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
- Salary
- £21000 - £23000 per annum
- Closing date
- 26 Jun 2019
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- Business Sector
- Non Food & Drink
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Sales
Job Details
To ensure that Customers receive consistently high standards of overall service and to adopt the world class service. To provide operational support to the sales team and help to achieve sales and profit targets for their accounts.
Client Details
Our client is an FMCG C.D business who are looking for a candidate who they can train into an account manager to manage a number of accounts in the business at office level.
Description
Provide excellent customer service with day to day contact with Customers, Field Sales reps and Agents: dealing with daily queries and requests
Maintain close relationships with the field sales teams, ensuring that communication is maintained
Answer incoming customer sales calls/emails promptly and deal with all customer requests as fully as possible
Create and set up new customer accounts and request credit limit with accounts
Provide customer with the required information, new line forms, order confirmations, images etc.
Send all samples, images etc to customer for approval
Managing pro forma invoices where applicable
Start, manage and update workflows
Gather details for the customer spec sheet for supply chain.
Approve carton marks, label positions etc match customer spec sheet
Work with shipping to expedite containers where required,
Profile
Experience in a multi-speed supply chain environment
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Excel (Pivot Tables) Word and Outlook
Excellent organisational skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrable excellent time management ability
Ability to work on own initiative and as part of team.
Analytical skills and good business acumen,
Excellent attention to detail
Job Offer
Great progression and development opportunities.
Company
Michael Page Sales UK is a leading professional recruitment consultancy covering permanent, interim and contract recruitment. We have UK wide coverage with ten offices located in London, Weybridge, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, St Albans, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow. The core markets we serve are Consumer, Business Services, Media, IT/Telco, Financial Services, Healthcare and Technical Sales, with a dedicated person or team in each location specialising in each of these sectors. The clients we work with are as diverse as the candidates we represent; from Blue Chips to SMEs, and Sales Execs to Sales Directors. Our Consultants are typically from relevant sales backgrounds giving first hand experience of the roles we recruit for. We pride ourselves on delivering unrivalled service levels to our candidates and our clients, our track record of success over the past 20 years means we stand out.
Within our Consumer Sales Division we have consultants within each of the 10 offices who dedicate themselves to this sector and no other. Our specialist capability is demonstrated further as we focus on sub sectors such as food, drink, household, foodservice, consumer electronics, apparel, health & beauty, consumer healthcare, pet and sports. Some of our key clients include Colgate, Beiersdorf, Dr Oetker, Johnson & Johnson, Matthew Clark, PZ Cussons, Kellogg’s, 2 Sisters, Samsung, Seven Seas, Twinings, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SC Johnson, Warburtons, InBev, Kettle Chips, Hallmark, Luxottica, McCain, Britvic, General Mills, and Molson Coors to name but a few!
Michael Page Sales UK is part of Michael Page International with operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As well as looking for high quality candidates for our clients, we are also always looking for top talent to work for us
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