Junior Sales Estimator

Job title: Junior Sales Estimator

Salary: Basic Salary £27-30k OTE £35-£45K - Y2 & Y3 earning will be significantly higher

Location: Deptford

My client is looking for a Junior Sales Estimator join their team, they are a great company who offer lot of growth and development for the right person. They are a solid team, get on well, so what someone who is going to fit into that. Your role will predominantly involve taking warm leads and tenders that have been generated through our marketing channels and turning them into live projects. A large element of the role will involve making site visits, undertaking surveys (full training given), returning tenders and providing fully costed proposals. Prospective clients will be a mix of main contractors, architects and direct clients. Our leads come from a range of in-house and contracting staff, we need someone who is flexible in their sales approach.

Duties:

• Organising and attending site visits to undertake surveys
• Making initial recommendations.
• Listening to customer requirements and making appropriate recommendations
• Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers
• Responding to incoming email and phone enquiries
• Supplying detailed design and fully-costed proposals
• Full involvement in formal bidding or tender processes
• Creating detailed proposal documents; the details of which will be largely dictated by the prospective client
• Forging relationships with architects to get our products specified
• Forging relationships with main contractors to field tender opportunities
• Negotiating pricing, timescales and terms of agreement.
• Keeping close relationships with manufacturers and product suppliers - some of which generate leads for the business.
• Recording leads, sales and order information on a centralised system.
• Creating simple CAD drawings (full training given).

Attributes:

• An eye for design and detail
• A basic knowledge of CAD or similar (preferable but not essential)
• A full driving license is essential.