Internal Sales – Glasgow

Role Function:

Develop sales of products and services for the company to customers, through inbound and outbound calls whilst supporting Field sales in developing their customer portfolio.

The successful candidate will:

Interact with Field sales and contribute towards customer action plans to improve customer satisfaction, increase market share, increase profitability and target prospective customers.
Pro-actively sell products/services and target new business with an emphasis on non-core products.
Maximise customer sales by offering added value options in pricing, services and product diversity.
Gather and maintain information, identify business opportunities and understand customer needs to generate further sales.

Skills and knowledge:

Strong negotiation and relationship building skills.
Excellent customer service and selling skills with an ability to cold call.
Basic knowledge of Papers an advantage
Basic IT skills
Good communication skills in both verbal and written English.
Active attitude, ability to analyse information, take initiatives and make decisions
Ability to perform many different tasks simultaneously under time pressure
Good team player
Working on computerised stock control systems, managing stock levels, invoicing, credit control, weekly and monthly figures, customer diary and information on balances etc.
Maintaining good customer relations
Adaptable, relish new creative challenges & a variety of tasks
Ability to learn quickly and work on own initiative
Very customer focused
Prioritising workload and working to deadlines
Committed to exceeding target, goals and objectives orientated
Communicating with people at all levels in the business
Professional telephone manner
Handling contracts where stock is held on outside storage
Dealing with distribution to track deliveries and collection of goods.

***Please supply CV in word rather than PDF***

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.