Recruitment

Sales Advisor

We are seeking a confident, articulate, commercially astute sales professional, with strong numerical skills and excellent attention to detail. The role will be 5 days per week from September to March, and 2 days per week from April to August to align with the seasonal nature of our business.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage & Expand Database: Oversee and expand the customer database, proactively seeking new business opportunities.
• Proactive Approach: Utilise tools such as Linkedln and Google to identify and secure new business.
• Training: Seek training opportunities for personal development and success.
• Trade Shows: Attend and represent the company at trade shows and events, organising meetings and networking opportunities.
• Collaborative Efforts: Work closely with other departments to achieve company goals.
• Pricing Structures: Adhere to agreed pricing structures to maximize profitability.
• Company Vision: Understand and align with the company's vision and aims.
• Customer Focus: Ensure the highest level of customer service at all times.
• Market Feedback: Share market and competitor activity insights with the wider sales team.
• System Management: Maintain and update systems, check stock, and follow established processes.
• Customer Meetings: Organise development meetings with sales managers or business development managers.
• KPI Achievement: Work towards and take ownership of achieving agreed key performance indicators.
• Customer Relationships: Build and maintain relationships with existing and potential clients, seeking new opportunities within these relationships.
• Process Adherence: Follow sign-off procedures and work within ISO standards.
• Sales Enquiries: Respond to, follow up, and manage sales enquiries according to company processes.

Skills Required

• Communication: Professional and friendly communication skills, whether face-to-face, over the phone, or by email, with customers, colleagues, hauliers, and suppliers.
• Accuracy: Strict attention to detail is essential.
• Initiative: Ability to independently drive workload forward.
• Team-work: Natural ability to multi-task and support colleagues in other parts of the business, especially during peak seasons.
• PC Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office and other essential PC skills.

Applicants should please send their CV and covering letter (in strict confidence) to: [email protected].

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Key Account Executive

As a key account executive, you will play a pivotal role in facilitating the delivery of a distinguished contract through the planting season, ensuring that the needs of all stakeholders are met consistently.

Office based, in rural North Lincolnshire, you will be joining a great team to support them during our busy season. Ideal candidates thrive under pressure. The position is seasonal, requiring a full-time commitment from September to April.

Main Responsibilities

• Input orders & call off requests via our stock management system.
• Keep stakeholders abreast of progress as the project proceeds, updating and sharing key documents to provide clarity.
• Collaborate with the rest of the British Hardwood Tree Nursery team to ensure that stock requirements are met, operating closely with the warehouse team to guarantee that orders are collated in a timely and accurate manner to meet delivery needs and deadlines.
• Liaise with the warehouse team and hauliers to determine the most cost-effective and suitable method of delivering call offs, taking into account delivery site restrictions.
• Participate in semi-regular update meetings with key personnel (internal and external) throughout the duration of the project.
• Process ad-hoc requests for additional plants and planting accessories.
• Provide backup support to the rest of the team during the busy planting season.

Skills Required

• Communication: Professional and friendly communication skills, whether face-to-face, over the phone, or by email, with customers, colleagues, hauliers, and suppliers.
• Accuracy: Strict attention to detail is essential.
• Initiative: Ability to independently drive workload forward.
• Team-work: Natural ability to multi-task and support colleagues in other parts of the business, especially during peak seasons.
• PC Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office and other essential PC skills.

Applicants should please send their CV and covering letter (in strict confidence) to: [email protected].

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Purchasing & Marketing Assistant

Reporting to the Purchasing & Marketing Manager, the role will be hands on, assisting in data analysis, stock control and research to support purchasing decisions, plus content creation across the marketing mix.

Main Responsibilities

• Monitoring stock levels and identifying purchasing needs through data analysis, preparing Purchase Orders and Call Ups.
• Assisting with Goods In, stock management and stock control.
• Working with colleagues in Sales, Warehousing and Dispatch as required to assist in delivering customer orders on time.
• Assisting with supplier relationships.
• Assisting with maintaining and reviewing records to support various certification audits (FSC, FRM, Plant Healthy).
• Monitoring and reporting on competitor activity, plus industry and market trends.
• Researching and preparing content for social media and other marketing opportunities (e.g. web content, news articles).
• Assisting with the preparation of materials for events.
• Associated activities to support the role.

Skills Required

• Numerically strong, with an analytical nature and great attention to detail.
• Strong IT skills, including the use of Microsoft Office.
• Experience of stock management systems and Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop is desirable.
• Must be able to work as part of a team and on own initiative.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience across the marketing mix, working to brand guidelines, targeting trade customers, ideally including social media and events.
• Experience of the procurement process, driven by data analysis.
• Sector experience is desirable, however full training will be given.

Applicants should please send their CV and covering letter (in strict confidence) to: [email protected].