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School Sales Coordinator
Closing Date: 30th August 2024
Salary: £24,000
Hours: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday
Are you an enthusiastic, organised, team player looking for a new challenge?
We are looking for a School Sales Coordinator to join the team as our business grows, ensuring that our customers’ expectations are exceeded at every interaction with us.
The job involves:
- Providing administrative support to the Schools Team.
- Producing quotations for reading spine and class set requests.
- Processing orders for reading spine and class set requests.
- Chasing up outstanding customer quotations for reading spine and class sets.
- Responsible for maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction when communicating with customers either face to face, on email or on the phone.
- Supporting the Schools Team with project work as required.
The successful applicant will need:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise workload between competing demands.
- To be computer literate and proficient with Microsoft Office applications such as Excel and Word.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- First class attention to detail.
- To be results driven, with strong customer focus.
- The ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
The details:
- Contract type: This role is a full-time role (Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week); however, if working term-time only would suit you, please let us know.
- Location: This role is based in our central Birmingham office at 120 Bromsgrove Street, Birmingham, B5 6RJ.
- Salary: £24,000 per annum.
- Holiday: Please note that a minimum of 10 days annual leave is required to be taken in August in this role.
The benefits:
- 22 days holiday, plus public / bank holidays, rising to 27 days with length of service.
- Save money by taking advantage of discounted parking at Arcadian.
- Love to read? Enjoy up to 40% off a wide selection of books stocked by Peters.
- Up to 3 days paid time off for volunteering each year.
- Option to buy up to 5 additional days holiday each year.
- Annual eye test voucher.
