Top Job Recruitment are looking for a Sales and Contracts Assistant for a company based in Colchester, Essex. Our client is a kitchen manufacturing company.

As a Sales and Contracts Assistant you will support the Sales & Contracts Manager working with local developers and retail showrooms to generate quotes, plans, CAD images, and orders, for sites and individual kitchens within a B2B kitchen manufacturer.

Sales and Contracts Assistant Job Role

• Building relationships with developers and retail customers
• Understanding individual requirements for customers, sites, and projects
• Generating CAD plans and renderings
• Generating quotes and orders
• Assisting in showroom, showing new and existing customers around, offering support and advice on products and design in whatever capacity required
• Supporting Directors and Sales & Contracts Coordinator
• Respond to incoming queries via phone and email
• Fully understand manufacturing process to effectively follow through projects
• Support office team members during busy periods and absence
• Liaise with factory team with reference to manufacturing queries
• Learn product knowledge and attend training sessions as required
• Resolve issues or changes with existing or upcoming orders
• Schedule deliveries
• General office duties
• Other duties that may arise over time to meet the needs of the business

Sales and Contracts Assistant Skills Required

• Able to manage workload and time efficiently
• Able to self-motivate with own deadlines, specifically regarding larger projects
• Able to work well with a range of people including staff, suppliers, customers and the general public
• Effective communication skills on the phone, email, and face to face
• Excellent design and planning skills
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Helpful to other team members in training or during absence
• Willing to learn constantly changing products
• ArtiCAD or other kitchen design software
• Kitchen design and planning
• Kitchen processing and manufacturing
• KBB general knowledge

• Full time, 40 hour a week, 9am-5.30pm inc. 30 min unpaid break, Monday to Friday. 
• No evenings or weekends required
• 6 months’ probation
• 28 days holiday inc. 8 bank holidays, running Jan to Dec. We ask the team to reserve 5 of their days for Christmas where we have a 1 ½ week shutdown
• Government pension included
• Please note, we are a paper-based environment with a manufacturing team, therefore it’s essential the candidate is working from the office full time and therefore flexible working or working from home would be extremely difficult to arrange.
• Salary starting from £24,000+ depending on experience

Apply now if you fit the criteria and if you are suitable, you will be contacted!