Internal Sales / Branch Assistant

Vacancy Ref - JR2014
Role: Internal Sales / Trade Counter person
Industry: Electrical Wholesale
Location - Farnborough area, Hampshire
Working hours - Monday to Friday – no weekends
Salary - up to circa £35,000 basic negotiable depending on experience + bonuses

Do you have some electrical wholesale experience?
Are you a confident communicator with some sales experience?

Rhodium Consulting is recruiting for an Internal Sales / trade counter person with some electrical product knowledge to join our ambitious and successful client in the electrical wholesale industry.

The role will involve working within a team of people dealing with pricing enquiries, technical queries and sales orders. A proportion of the role will be reactive calls dealing with incoming queries but this role is ideal for an individual with some outbound proactive sales experience with success at winning new business.

What's in it for you?:

• Salary negotiable depending on experience
• Annual bonus scheme
• No Christmas working hours
• Really friendly and experienced team environment

Responsibilities will include:

• Handling enquiries
• Regular phone contact of customers to secure orders on electrical wholesale products
• Setting up new customers, payments terms
• Raising quotations for customer orders
• Progressing queries
• Providing technical advice where required
• Reactive and proactive telephone sales
• Serving customers at the trade counter
• Developing the customer base by regular contact
• Use of computer system including quotations, enquiries, back orders

Skills Required:

• Current or very recent experience of the Electrical wholesale sector is a distinct advantage
• Excellent knowledge of electrical products
• Knowledge of LED Lighting
• Polished communication skills (written and verbal)
• Computer literate (inc Microsoft Office)
• Enjoys speaking to people on the phone
• Reliable and committed working attitude with great organisational skills
• A hard-working team player with a flexible and helpful attitude
• A self-motivated, professional who understands the importance of getting the job done and responding to the customer as promised
• Positive with a friendly "can do" attitude.
• A good listener who is keen to learn, develop new skills and "get on" in the business.

Salary up to £35,000 negotiable, dependent on skills and experience + bonuses

Don't wait - Apply now to find out more!

All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Rhodium Consulting Ltd is a niche recruitment consultancy specialising in wholesalers, merchants and distributors within the building products sector. We strive to be the industry leader in delivering the highest calibre of candidates to our client companies, whilst enhancing the careers of our candidates. For further information and contact details, please visit our website