This is a lovely role for someone with fluent GERMAN and some Sales support and Purchasing experience. The company is a specialist business based in ESSEX and acts as a purchasing “ hub” for heavy industry and manufacturing clients across the world who are looking for specific components. The business employs about 100 staff globally and the Head office is in Colchester where you will take orders from clients and then source technical products globally for dispatch. This is a classic very varied customer care and sales/purchasing role in which you will be taking inbound enquiries from clients who will ask you to source certain pieces of heavy industrial equipment. Your role is to support the sourcing process for heavy industrial equipment, create quotations, liaise with the client, add a “ finders fee” and then arrange shipping with the warehouse who will dispatch it. Nice and straight forward. Delightful role for a GERMAN speaker looking to be office based and wants to develop into a buyer
TITLE: GERMAN Administrator
SALARY : £30k-£35k + 10% bonus and study support
Team: Buying
Flexible working : This is an office-based role
LOCATION : Colchester in Essex (Free car parking available)
SECTOR : Purchasing hub for international clients within the manufacturing sector
HOURS: 8.30am-5pm
COMPANY
This is a truly lovely role in a successful local business in Essex ! The company is a specialist business and acts as a purchasing “ hub” for heavy industry and manufacturing clients across the world who are looking for specific components. The business employs about 100 staff globally and the Head office is in Colchester where the team will take orders from clients and then source products globally for dispatch. This is a classic sales support and buyer role in which you will be taking inbound enquiries from clients who will ask you to source certain pieces of heavy industrial equipment.
Your role is to source heavy industrial equipment from existing or new suppliers, and then liaise with the client, add a “ finders fee” and then communicate with the warehouse who will dispatch it. Nice and straight forward.
This business will also help to develop your career by supporting additional study or qualifications
THE ROLE: You will be supporting the UK and German sales team with admin support
* Dealing with enquiries from clients looking for a specific piece of heavy industry or essential spare part
* Researching new suppliers globally in order to source products
* Getting price quotations from suppliers
* Comparing prices and service levels
* Producing quotations for your clients. Negotiate a price and delivery schedule with the supplier
* Agree terms of business and delivery schedule with client
* Liaise with the warehouse who will arrange all the logistics
* All post sales administration
* Provide an outstanding level of personal customer care at all times.
REQUIREMENTS
* Fluent English and German
* Car driver essential (the office has no public transportation links)
* The role would suit a very smart new Graduate looking for a career move. OR someone with general admin experience to build on
* Experience in creating quotations ( ideally)