Commercial Assistant - food manufacturing

Commercial Assistant
£28,000 - £32,000
Essex
Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 9107

The company

From small seeds grow great companies! From their beginnings back in the 1970’s this company has gone from strength to strength and now supplies their organic products into retail, wholesale or foodservice customers. Operating 24/7 from their BRC A** site and producing both own label and market leading brands they are all about the best quality ingredients to ensure the highest quality products. 

About the Commercial Assistant job

You will play a key supporting role helping to manage internal processes and data integrity plus have direct customer interaction. It will therefore be a blend of administrative, commercial, and customer-facing responsibilities.

Key tasks

• Management of commercial contracts, loading sales agreements into internal systems accurately and on time.
• Monitor and track customer forecasts versus actual.
• Coordinate customer sample requests with NPD and warehouse, ensuring timely despatch and tracking.
• Analyse customer activity to identify potential problem areas in which to improve margins and / or operational efficiency.
• Proactively support sales in preparing and updating customer pricing, volumes, and product data.

About You

Experience working with customers in a commercial or sales environment is a must.  In addition:

• SAP / Reflex experience.
• Good admin, IT and sales administration skills.
• You must have good customer facing skills.
• Friendly, tenacious, organised, able to multitask and prioritise.

More details

The Commercial Assistant job is based in Essex and is paying £28,000 - £32,000 according to your experience.

This is a Monday to Friday office hours role – 40 hours per week.

This role is commutable from Braintree, Chelmsford, Colchester, Maldon, Witham, Tiptree, Kelvedon and Hatfield Pevere.

Alternate job titles Commercial Assistant | Sales Administrator | Customer Service Administrator | Customer Account Administrator | Office Administrator | Business Support Administrator | Commercial Support Coordinator | Customer Operations Administrator | Trading Assistant

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