Trade Counter Sales - Builders Merchant

Interaction - Watford; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Trade Counter Sales professional with a builders merchant background to join a busy client in Hanwell. This full-time permanent role involves serving customers, processing orders, and liaising with clients. Candidates should have previous trade counter experience, strong numerical skills, and good customer-facing abilities. This position offers future growth into an Assistant Branch Manager role. Salary ranges from £30k to £35k per annum, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Previous trade counter experience is required.
• Experience working in a builders merchant is essential.
• Confident in facing customers with a good telephone manner.

Responsibilities

• Serve customers over the trade counter.
• Liaise with customers and suppliers via phone and email.
• Process orders and send quotes.

Skills

Trade counter experience

Customer service skills

Numerical skills

Computer literacy

Fluent in Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic, or Hindi

Job description

Job Description

Interaction Recruitment are recruiting for an experienced Trade Counter Sales candidate from a builders merchant background to join their busy client in Hanwell on a full-time permanent basis. This role is working Monday to Friday 07:00 to 16:30 and Saturday 07:00 to 10:30 (1 Saturday on 1 off rota). This is a great opportunity which can offer future growth into Assistant Branch Manager role for the right candidate.

Salary: £30k to £35k per annum DOE

This role involves:

• serving customers over the trade counter
• liaising with customers and suppliers via phone and email
• sending quotes
• processing orders
• building rapport with existing and new customers
• bringing on new business and lapsed customers
• supporting yard / back office staff
• providing product knowledge to customers

To be considered for this role you must have / be:

• previous trade counter experience
• previous experience working in a builders merchant
• fluent Urdu, Punjabi, Arabic or Hindi speaking would be preferred but not essential
• confident facing customers
• strong numerical skills to work out margins and product quantities
• computer literate
• able to work Monday to Saturday
• local to Watford or able to commute easily
• good telephone manner

If you're interested...