Account Manager

Location: Preston, Lancashire.

Salary: £28-30K per annum

Hours: Monday - Friday - 8.30 - 17.00 office-based role with flexible starting hours.

Client Profile:

Our client is a leading manufacturer and supplier within the automotive sector. They are looking to add an Account Manager to work in their offices based in Preston.

Responsibilities:

Account Management:

-Customers/agent communications

-Setting up new customers price lists + New customer welcome pack

-Providing customer quotation regularly + Updating and Maintaining Customer Price Lists

-Back orders follow ups and updates

Product Management:

-Competitor Market Price info research/Data gathering

-Cross referencing

-Promoting new product range

Reports & Amp; Analysis Reports to Sales Team:

-Sales reports

-Sales figures analysis

-Cost/Price reduction requests

-Gross Margin report analysis

-Analysing product movement

-Product forecast

-Annual budget preparation

-Answering any Directors' queries

Admin/Customer Service:

-Raising orders for both UK and European customers in a timely manner

-Dealing with customer enquiries by email and phone

-Dealing with any queries from sales managers.

-Main point of contact for customer service issues

-Arranging transportation for UK and European customer orders.

-Issuing documentation for transportation.

-Document Filing/Archiving

-General office duties such as answering the phone and other duties assigned by the management

Personal Specification:

The successful candidate for the role of Sales Administrator must have the following skills:

- Account Management experience

-Great Attention to detail

-Good with Excel

-Any experience within exports is desirable but not essential

- Any European Language skills a bonus but not required (e.g. German or French or Polish or Italian or Spanish etc)