We are looking to recruit, for our well established freight forwarder,  an Inside Sales & Pricing Manager.  The role is located around the Heathrow area.

Requirements of the Role:

• Good people management and facilitating skills, with strategic thinking
• Being able to organise department work and delegate tasks
• Basic standard of education – up to GCSE standard or equivalent
• Good Communication; verbal and written, telephone skills
• Good computer skills – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Lotus Notes
• Good numeracy skills
• Experience of sales within a Freight Forwarding Environment
• Good understanding of Freight Forwarding business and it’s services
• Good customer service skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to work at speed in a competitive / pressurised environment and complete tasks within strict deadlines

Daily Tasks:

• To manage the overall running of the inside national sales department, working closely with the inside sales supervisor.
• To be able to develop & performance manage the inside sales staff
• To be able to train and facilitate all inside sales coordinators
  as and when required to do so.
  To monitor inside teams work efficiency and to look for enhancements
  and constant improvements.
• To look for prospective sales leads and ensure to pass these over to the sales management.
• To arrange and complete competitive and accurate pricing for RFQ’s / Bids, Tenders and General Quotes within requested time frame and complete
• Follow up actions as required (Air, Ocean, Road or as required)
• To support UK sales members in terms of pricing / quoting / follow up, creating marketing information
• To produce business reports and data as required for Managers
• Update, databases as directed
• To administrate monthly reporting, for won/loss and feedback monitoring, to set up rate templates for regular customers.
• Liaise with UK and Overseas branches
• Follow up with customers as directed
• Dealing with any related queries