We are recruiting on behalf of a leading and prestigious food company based in Kings Lynn, due to their continued growth and development they are seeking to employ a Sales Administrator to start asap.

Temp to perm contract

Salary dependent on experience between - £23k - £25k

Job Title:   Sales Administrator

Responsible to: Company Directors and General Manager

Purpose of the role

Provide high level sales administration support to the Company Directors and General Manager.

Duties will include but not limited to:

Provide sales administration

Act as a point of contact on site for all customers and suppliers

Taking and processing customer orders

Processing of purchase orders

Execute day-to-day tasks for purchase and sales day books

Arrange transport for sales and purchase orders

Resolving customer and transport queries/issues

Provide sales “follow-up” in collaboration with Sales Director

Assist with all customer communications, including sales prices, price increases, promotions, changes to normal delivery lead times

Updating of SAGE customer price lists

Provide up to date sales statistics to Company Directors and General Manager

Organise and control customer samples, including associated tasks such as updating SAGE stock levels, labelling, transport.

Providing site administration – including but not limited to the following tasks:

Maintaining product stock levels

Maintaining label stock levels

Assist in stock transfers to and from offsite storage facilities

Ensure compliance with all internal control systems.

Provide site administrator duties during periods of holiday, sickness and as required.

Answer phone, take orders, handle complaints politely, take notes, and communicate with directors, site management and production/warehouse supervision/staff. 

Observe all company health and safety rules.

Safe guard company assets.

Where appropriate conduct any reasonable task as instructed by a company director.

Qualifications and personal Qualities required

Experience with SAGE highly preferred 

Strong communication skills.

Good interpersonal skills (must be polite, and friendly with all customers’ management and staff. Unjustifiable insensitive disruptive behaviour will not be tolerated)

Microsoft and email skills essential.

Good organizational and time management skills and ability to work on own initiative essential

Proactive and systematic approach to problem solving.

Enthusiastic, self-motivating, can-do attitude with desire to improve and develop in the job.