Salesperson/Technical Sales Assistant

We are looking for a Salesperson to join our team.

Duties:

– Manage the email for the company

– Respond with quotes ASAP.  If needing assistance, send incoming requests out to various sales people and departments

– Ensure that quotes are submitted timeously, priced competitively

– Ensure that each email is responded to promptly

– Handle walk-in customers, take their orders, assist them with products, upsell where you can

– Work very closely with the Business Owner to grow sales and the business

– Handle large orders with 100 % accuracy

– Work on tender submissions

– Manage the sales process daily, ensuring we meet targets

 

The ideal person will:

– LOVE sales and be very sales-oriented

– Be customer focused

– Have a great sense of urgency

– Be extremely organised

– Be meticulous

– Have great people skills and be engaging

– Be willing to learn huge stock items and learn about the products 

– Be focused and driven

– Have Intermediate Excel skills – must be able to work on Pivot tables, use v-lookups, etc.

– Have a very good command of the English language 

– Be technically minded – if they come from hardware, drilling equipment etc that would be great.  Must have worked with big stocks of small items eg screws (not large machinery, not bed sales or cell phone sales) – large stock holding and loads of stock items

– Must be able to work in a high pressure environment that is fast-paced – handle walk-in customers, prepping a large order, answering the phone etc.