Job Title: Sales Executive
Location: Alton, Hampshire GU34 2YT
Salary: Up to £28,000 per year (experience dependent)
Job type: Permanent, Full Time, Office Based.
The Ex-El Group is combination of the US and UK divisions of Ex-Eltronics and sister MRO provider, Midway Industrial Electronics, The Ex-El group is one of the world’s foremost providers of key technologies with over 45 years in business supplying world-class component and systems, providing worldwide sourcing and supply of services to many of the world’s leading military aerospace and industrial OEMs.
If you are a motivated, driven and experienced individual within a client faced role, we would love to hear from you!
The role:
This is a fantastic opportunity for an office-based position within a sales office environment maintaining and managing customers from enquiries received right through to quotations and account management. We are looking for a professional individual who is flexible, pragmatic, commercially aware and client-driven. The ideal candidate will have experience in a sales environment and customer service, excellent communication skills.
**Previous experience in Aerospace and Defence along with languages would be advantageous (especially German).
The Candidate:
- Previous account/Customer-facing sales experience gained in any industry would be an advantage – Aerospace and defence preferred.
- Strong relationship building skills.
- Desire to learn and develop within your role.
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage your own time efficiently.
- Good IT literacy – Familiar with MS Packages – Word, Excel, Outlook etc.
- Excellent communication, written English and grammar skills.
- Able to work and collaborate efficiently within a team.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- POC for sales activities for assigned administrative customer accounts.
- Prepare quotations – setting customer sell price based on factors such as: previous sale history, average margins for same/similar parts and overall customer average.
- Obtain and prepare any supporting documentation (drawings & datasheets).
- Follow up all high value and strategic quotations – obtain feedback and update quote tracker file.
- Review incoming customers POs – verify customer compliance with quoted terms and verify Ex-El can comply with any customer flow downs and Ts & Cs.
- Acknowledge customer PO’s when confirmed and contract review customer POs and convert into ISOs for purchasing team.
- Review and process customer PO amendment requests
- Liaise with admin team to pro-actively monitor customer open orders, manage customer expedites and notify/update customers on all delivery delays & issues.
- Liaise with quality team to ensure all customer rejections/complaints/quality queries are processed efficiently.
- Provide single POC customer service for all customer after-sales issues – liaise with relevant internal departments to efficiently troubleshoot and resolve all queries/problems
- Review incoming RFQs from assigned customers.
- Convert incoming RFQs into enquiries for purchasing team.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary up to £28k (37.5 hours) – depending on experience
- 20 day’s holidays + Bank holidays increasing to 25 with service
- A small, friendly, and long serving team
- Workplace pension (after 6 months probationary period)
- Parking
- Private Medical cover (optional after 6 months probationary period)
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
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