German Buying Sales Support Administrator
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GERMAN and 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. In this role you take orders from clients and source technical products globally for dispatch. You will be taking inbound enquiries from clients asking to source pieces of heavy industrial equipment, support the sourcing process, create quotations, liaise with the client, add a “finder’s fee” and arrange shipping with the warehouse who will dispatch it. Delightful role for a German speaker looking to be office based and want 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, Essex (Free car parking available)
Sector: Purchasing hub for international clients within the manufacturing sector
Hours: 8.30 am‑5 pm
Company
This is a truly lovely role in a successful local business in Essex. The business employs about 100 staff globally. The team will take orders from clients and source products globally for dispatch. Classic sales support and buyer role in which you take inbound enquiries from clients to source heavy industrial equipment. You will source equipment from existing or new suppliers, liaise with the client, add a finder’s fee and communicate with the warehouse. The business will also support 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 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)
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