Sales Co-ordinator

First Recruitment Services; East Grinstead; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in East Grinstead is seeking a Sales Co-ordinator to join their team. This administrative role will directly support key accounts and contribute to sales growth without meeting sales targets. The successful candidate will be part of a friendly environment where communication and organization are key. Opportunities for career progression exist in a successful and reputable company.

Qualifications

• Background in sales administration preferred.
• Experience with MS Office essential.
• Good standard of numeracy and literacy required.

Responsibilities

• Respond promptly to customer enquiries.
• Process sales orders accurately.
• Manage top clients to maintain business.

Skills

Communication

Numeracy

Literacy

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

• Position: Sales Co-ordinator
• Salary: £27,000 per year plus very good all round company benefits along with the possibility of career progression within the business
• Location: East Grinstead, West Sussex
• Hours: Monday – Thursday 08:30-17:00 and Friday 08:30 – 15.45. Office based role but with possible hybrid opportunities in the future
• Role based in Uckfield/East Grinstead. There is plenty of free parking on site available for all staff in Uckfield and at the new office in East Grinstead. Both offices are around a 20-25 minute walk from the nearest mainline station.

We are very pleased to be partnered with our large, successful and friendly client as they seek to recruit a Sales Co-ordinator to join their team at their offices in Uckfield (the role will move to their new offices in East Grinstead in Sept 2025). My client is highly thought of within their sector and offers an excellent environment and team in which to work. This role is full time (Monday-Thursday 0830-1700 and Friday 0830-1545 early finish). This is an excellent opportunity to join a very established and highly reputable company.

The role – Sales Co-ordinator

Reporting to the Transactional Sales Team Leader, your role will be to assist in the effective and efficient running of key accounts in order to satisfy customer requirements and to ensure continued sales growth. This is not a targeted sales role and is very much an administrative role within the sales department / team.

Duties will include

• Promptly responding to customer enquiries.
• Answering department calls in a timely and professional manner.
• Accurately processing sales orders.
• Logging and following up quotations.
• Account managing top clients to maintain strong levels of business
• Assisting the Account Managers with their workloads.
• Working closely with your Team Leader and the Sales Manager to find new ways of building new and existing business – account managing

Experience, competencies and knowledge required:

• Ideally, you will have a background of working within a sales administration based role within an office
• You must have experience in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Good standard of numeracy and literacy.
• You will need to have excellent communication skills both verbal and written, in order to be able to communicate and build good relationships with external and internal customers.
• You will need to be able to work to deadlines in a busy and friendly environment

This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills and experience gained within an sales office administration role, working as a key part of a friendly and busy team.

For more information regarding this new and exciting Sales Co-ordinator opportunity, please apply now! Short-listing will take place soon – don’t miss out!

Wild Recruitment Ltd T/A First Recruitment Services is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.