Sales Associate - Wincanton, United Kingdom - Henshaw Inflatables Ltd

Description

Primary Function:

We seek a dynamic sales individual with the skills and desire to find opportunities and support high net worth customers.

Sales will be B2B and B2C in nature and focused primarily on the Super Yacht and Leisure sectors. You will be selling bespoke inflatable and foam products requiring a high degree of technical understanding and project management.


Role Responsibilities:

• Proactively sell and promote Henshaw Inflatables at every opportunity
• Consult directly with clients to ensure their sales orders and quotations are processed accurately and promptly
• Build solid client relationships through reliability and trust
• Deliver customer service excellence by 'project managing' orders and ensuring clients are kept updated at all stages
• Support a 'right first time' culture by ensuring all necessary data is gathered and documented to allow successful builds
• Travel to customers, show and events as required to convert sales, build relationships, and ensure necessary data is gathered
• Be a team player and form strong links with other members of the team and other departments to improve the efficiency and delivery of the business
• Attend internal 'Contract Reviews' where necessary to ensure successful delivery of large orders
• Support the maintenance and development of sales tools and literature
• Support the Marketing effort by presenting newsworthy content and social media opportunities
• Raise, record, and follow enquiries, quotations, and customer complaints through to resolution to achieve continual improvement and excellent customer service
• Enter details of sales orders and quotations into the system accurately
• Support pricing and offer development
• Build and share product knowledge to ensure strong technical support for our customers

General Responsibilities:

• Responsible for abiding by the company Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment policy and any supplementary memos and rules pertaining to your employment
• Responsible for assisting with the identification of your own training needs and raising these accordingly
• Responsible for undertaking training, and continuing development as appropriate
• To assist, where appropriate, with addressing the training needs of colleagues
• To carry out any other reasonable duties deemed appropriate and commensurate with the post

Skill Set:

• Strong and proven sales and negotiation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong IT and data input skills

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Education:

• Relevant work experience and/or qualifications

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Travel Requirements:

• Travel up to 25%
• Overnight travel is required and occasional weekends when needed for exhibitions

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Software:

• Microsoft Word
• Required

• Microsoft Excel

• Required

• Microsoft Outlook

• Required

• Microsoft PowerPoint

• Preferred

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Personal Abilities & Workstyle:

• Produce a tangible, positive impact
• Achieve consistently high results
• Demonstrate high standards of professional conduct
• Work effectively as part of a team or as an individual
• Customer Focus
• Pro-Active
• Attention to detail
• Dependable

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Salary:
£22,000.00-£26,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company pension
• Onsite parking
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location:
In person