Sales & Business Development
Sales & Administration Executive – FMCG / Food & Drink, Exeter, Devon
Enable Futures is delighted to be working exclusively with an award-winning, rapidly growing independent FMCG business as they continue to expand their presence across the South West and beyond.
This is an exciting opportunity for a confident and commercially minded Sales & Administration Executive to join a growing internal sales team, gaining valuable experience across sales, customer relationships, administration and e-commerce.
This is much more than a traditional administration role.
You’ll be a key part of the internal sales function, proactively contacting customers, developing new business opportunities, supporting existing accounts and working closely with the wider commercial team.
You’ll also take ownership of the company’s online sales activity, giving you the opportunity to gain broad commercial experience across both B2B and B2C sales.
For the right person, there is genuine scope to progress into field-based sales and wider commercial opportunities as the business continues to grow.
What you'll do
- Proactively contact prospective customers by phone and email to develop new business
- Build strong relationships with existing customers and identify further sales opportunities
- Support the field sales team with customer administration, orders and account development
- Take ownership of the company’s online shop, processing orders and helping to grow online sales
- Handle customer queries relating to orders, invoices and stock
- Support promotions, sales activity, events and new product launches
- Maintain accurate customer and sales information
- Provide wider administrative support to the commercial team as required
What you'll need
- This role would suit someone who is confident, organised and enjoys speaking to people, with a genuine interest in developing a career in sales.
- Sales or business development
- Customer service
- Retail or hospitality
- B2B or B2C environments
- Sales administration or account management
- Confident and proactive on the telephone
- Comfortable identifying and creating sales opportunities
- Organised with excellent attention to detail
- Comfortable working with CRM, sales or order-processing systems
- Commercially minded and motivated by achieving results
- A positive, flexible team player who enjoys working in a fast-moving environment
- Full training will be provided, so this could be an excellent opportunity for someone with strong customer-facing experience who is ready to take the next step into a genuine commercial sales career.
Benefits
- 10% commission – OTE £31,900
- 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays
- Pension scheme
- Full training and ongoing development
- Genuine opportunity to progress into field sales as the business grows
- Flexible working hours
- Based at the company’s Devon office 4 days per week
- The opportunity to join an ambitious, award-winning independent FMCG business at an exciting stage of its growth
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