Sales Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Build excellent relationships with new and lapsed customers to understand and meet their needs.
• Maximise customer interactions to achieve sales and profit targets through upselling and cross-selling relevant products.
• Provide specific product advice and support.
• Develop strong knowledge of suppliers, products, and industry trends.
• Ensure all customer orders are fulfilled in a timely fashion.
• Follow plans to continuously improve the customer experience.
• Advise customers on trading terms, account information, and credit levels.
• Support all company initiatives.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary and discretionary bonus.
• Wide range of voluntary benefits including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work, and Benenden Healthcare.
• Access to health and wellbeing services, including online GP appointments and mental health support.
• Generous employee discounts.
• Exclusive discounts with hundreds of high street and online retailers.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.

• Excellent customer focus and a drive to achieve the best outcomes.
• Proven B2B sales development experience, ideally within construction materials.
• Ability to build rapport and secure future projects by understanding customer portfolios.
• Proactive, well organised, and detail-oriented.
• Strong IT skills and confident telephone presence.