Sales Support Administrator
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £25000 – £28000/annum
Sales Support Administrator up to £28000 per annum
Working within the existing Sales Support team of a growing asset finance company based in Oldham. The main functions are to process all new business proposals within agreed timescales, effectively communicate with both internal and external customers, take responsibility and ownership of accounts and to book transactions with a high degree of accuracy. This is a fast paced role in what can be a pressurised environment so requires good verbal and written communication, numeracy, and organisation skills. In addition, it requires a flair for sales and the ability to help achieve company sales targets through first class service.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
• Processing new business proposals received from suppliers, brokers or direct customers.
• Obtaining the required information from the proposal source to support the lease proposal and when required request additional supporting information.
• Perform all relevant searches including Credit reference agencies, land registry and background checks.
• Prepare the proposal to be underwritten either by our internal Credit team or to be sent out to external Funders.
• Develop an understanding of the different Funders credit policy/rates.
• Advise the supplier, broker, or customer of the outcome of the application, which may include rate negotiation.
• Complete and check all documentation to be sent to the customer and check them upon return.
• Process all documentation, invoices, delivery checks when ready for payout in a timely manner.
• Liaise with introducers to manage outstanding proposals and convert to live agreements.
• Deal with adhoc sales requests for quotes and where possible maximise sales opportunities.
• Process incoming post
Answer telephone calls Other Duties :
• Provide support to other areas of the business to cover for busy periods, sickness, or holidays.
• Any other reasonable tasks at the request of the company management.
Key Skills and Behaviours:
• Must be self-motivated and be able to work on own initiative.
• Work well within a small team whilst working independently.
• Have good communication skills, both written and verbal and have excellent telephone manner.
• Be able to build positive professional working relationships with our introducers, suppliers and service providers.
• Good numeracy skills and be confident working with numbers.
• Be hard working, proactive and enthusiastic.
• Good time management skills and able to prioritise workloads to ensure targets are met.
• High attention to detail and high levels of accuracy.
• Identify opportunities.
• Be willing to take on additional and varied tasks to support the business requirements.
Experience/Qualifications:
• A minimum of 1 years sales support required
• Performing credit searches preferred.
• Working in a sales support environment would be advantageous.
• IT literate.
• Good background education
