Trade Sales Consultant, luxury furniture brand (REF 1210)
- Up to £32,000 + bonus
- London
An award-winning luxury brand is looking for a positive and experienced Trade Sales Consultant with a passion for homewares & interiors to join their sales team.
As a key team member of this award winning, prestigious brand you will use your first-class communications and people skills to deliver the best possible service to their trade customers. Working with a range of clients including interior designers and architects, you will provide product suggestions and recommendations, and assist them with custom & made to order enquires to maximise sales and opportunity.
You will have a genuine desire to develop a career within an iconic interiors business. This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading business which offers a great opportunity to really develop and progress in your career.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building and maintaining strong and genuine relationships with potential and existing clients
- Thoroughly understanding clients’ needs, upwardly servicing wherever possible
- Issuing quotes and keeping on top of these to ensure that they are progressing, tracked accurately, and being won in a helpful manner
- Processing sales orders, purchase orders and invoices accurately
- Ensuring all bespoke orders are processed with an eye for detail
- Working collaboratively with the studio’s design team to interpret and project manage custom enquiries and commissions
- Working closely with our roster of makers and workshops to track production
- Being aware of how live orders are progressing throughout the production process
- Working closely with the procurement and delivery team, making sure that any special requirements are communicated and actioned
- Taking an active part in client outreach to communicate new launches
- Working in a collaborative manner to reach monthly and quarterly targets
- Managing ongoing care of the sales database and its record accuracy
- Manning the shop floor
Skills required:
- Trade sales experience working for a high-end, service focused brand
- Experience within the furniture industry or working directly with interior designers a plus
- Some experience of working in a showroom would be ideal
- Articulate and a strong communicator, happy to help and engage in conversations
- An excellent command of written and spoken English, both face to face and via phone and email
- Numerate and accurate, with an aptitude for IT and systems. CRM experience an advantage
- A team player with a positive outlook who works using initiative
- Bright and warm and proactive individual, happy to muck in, help out and adaptable
Diversity & Inclusion: ILMJ values diversity, equality and inclusion and encourages applicants from all backgrounds and identities.
