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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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