About the Role

We have a fantastic opportunity to join us as a Sales Support Representative. The role is responsible for supporting the Regional Sales Manager in following up on leads, prospect for new customers, and set confirmed appointments with customers. They will also support order management and account management processes such as setting up new accounts for billing, preparing quotes and quoting support in delivering solutions, helping coordinate shipments, and post-shipment support.

About Western Global

Western Global is the world’s leading supplier of mobile fuel storage solutions and has locations in UK, Poland, North America and the Middle East.

The business is highly innovative and designs, manufactures and distributes fuel & fluid storage solutions across the world.

The business has grown significantly over the past couple of years and was acquired by Private Equity in Jan21.

Our strategy involves us supporting our customers in overcoming the challenges they face in fuelling equipment and offering power generation in remote and off-grid locations. We will work with our suppliers and other partners to make Western a long term partner they can trust and rely on.

People are a key element to support our planned growth and we are looking for a talented, forward-thinking individual, with a can-do attitude.

Western Global’s values form the fundamental elements that drive the business and ensure everyone remains in the right direction. Our work is guided and informed by our beliefs and commitments to:

Teamwork: Working as one team across countries and departments to go above and beyond for each other and our customers.

Openness: Communicating with each other and welcoming ideas and opinions, especially when they challenge our assumptions.

Passion: Caring about creating innovative and quality products and solutions for our customers.

Integrity: Nothing is more important than our reputation and behaving with the highest ethical standards.

Celebrate Success: Getting together to recognise and reward our achievements.

Duties

Driving New and Existing Business

Be the primary contact with customers and prospects related to sales.

Educating customers on products that best fit their needs and technical specifications.

Spotting, generating and managing profitable sales opportunities with new and existing customers

Applying financial and commercial understanding to develop sales and close deals

Proactively research and analyse data providing insights on the market and customers.

Completing and reporting sales key performance indicators (KPIs).

Developing new business through proactive and creative sales activities.

Identifying future opportunities in the market.

Supporting RSMs with market research to find potential new customers and product applications

Carrying out team administration needs as and when required including the following up on sales leads or quotations

Customer focus

Entering all sales activities into the customer relationship management (CRM) system (NetSuite).

Following up quotes in an appropriate manner to keep the RSM focused on selling

Providing shipment details and answering any post-order customer questions.

Staying up to date with company policies, procedures and products.

Developing long-term customer relationships.

Understanding and fulfilling customers needs.

Providing quotations to customers when appropriate

Supporting and controlling orders from initial orders through to delivery

Arranging shipping/transport for orders using efficient and compliant methods

Administrative

Arranging sales meetings between clients and the Regional Sales Manager (RSM)

Working with the RSM to support pipelines and forecasting.

Supporting with follow-up tasks, activity notes and new client communications to keep the RSM on the road.

Promoting communications between the sales and operations team.

Sharing your technical knowledge to train colleagues and new starters.

Using NetSuite to track opportunities, co-ordination of quotes with other subsidiary offices, and departments.

Customer Service

Maintaining and improving our levels of customer service

Developing relationships and fluent in both French and English

Treating all customers fairly and with a high standard of service

Supporting key accounts to ensure a high-quality service is provided and all opportunities are maximised

Providing day to day contact to ensure orders are managed, products and services are delivered, and quality is ensured

Required Attributes

Experience in a similar role.

Written and Verbal Fluency in both French & English

Good standard of IT capability e.g. Microsoft Outlook & Word.

Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Excellent attention to detail.

Confident communicator on the telephone and in person

High levels of both verbal and written communication.

Ability to effectively organize and prioritize.

Multi-task to meet deliverables with little supervision.

Desired Attributes

Previous experience in a manufacturing industry

Previous use of a CRM tool ideally NetSuite.

Experience within a technical environment i.e. engineering, automotive etc.

A valid Driving License.

Personal Attributes and Qualities

Confident manner, good presentation skills.

Determination - not easily discouraged or put off.

Passion, enthusiasm and charisma.

Innovative – prepared to see beyond how it has been done before.

Positive outlook – always sees opportunity through any adversity.

Resilient – ready to bounce back from any challenges.

Assertive – gets things done when they need to be.

Positive, self-motivated and with a helpful attitude.