Contract Personnel are pleased to be recruiting a Sales Estimator to join their Eye based client's team on a permanent basis.
Duties and Key Responsibilities
- To ensure that all enquiries are reviewed carefully to identify potential commercial, contractual, and technical issues that need to be addressed and managed as an integral part of the sales process, mitigating risk to the business.
- To ensure that all quotations are in accordance with the defined policies relating to pricing, discounts, contractual conditions, and terms of trade.
- To ensure that orders received are checked carefully and reviewed thoroughly by the Sales team.
- To communicate directly and routinely with the Sales team to ensure that quotations and proposals are completed in a timely manner.
- To ensure timely, accurate and complete information is captured in the Company's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, providing regular data quality checks.
- To report on a regular basis to the Internal Sales Manager performance to agreed Sales metrics, KPIs and targets.
- To ensure that duties are carried out in accordance with all Company policies, procedures, and processes.
Other Responsibilities
- Liaising with the Distributor and the Company's internal departments (as necessary) to ensure the correct specification for the Distributor's requirements.
- Maintaining orderly records of prices/costs/data used in preparation of quotations.
- Assisting with the preparation of Order Processing paperwork (as required) and attending handover meetings to ensure timely transfer of order information throughout the business.
- To make certain that all necessary information required to ensure meaningful progress of orders is available prior to handover to other internal services.
- To contribute to the ongoing aim of improved product and service quality via our ISO 9001 accreditation
The Candidate
Essential Skills, Knowledge & Personal Attributes
- Strong interpersonal, teamwork and communication skills.
- A very high attention to detail.
- Distributor relationship focused with a high degree of commercial awareness.
- The ability to work under pressure and to deliver objectives by agreed deadlines.
- Computer proficient skills including MS Office Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft TEAMS.
- Proven work experience gained within an internal sales role.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- An in-depth understanding of the sales administration process.
- A-levels in English and Maths or equivalent work experience gained within a related sales role.
This role is a full time, permanent position based in Eye, Suffolk, and is integral to their long-term strategic objectives.
If you're ready to take on this exciting opportunity, please call Lisa on or submit your CV to