Sales Administrator

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.

If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network.

Working for Eurofins Food Safety Solutions sales team the purpose of this post is to generate profitable new sales through actively engaging clients using a variety of sales techniques including marketing campaigns to exceed new business targets.

This is a permanent homebased role, candidates can be based anywhere in the UK but will be required to travel to the Wolverhampton site around four times per year for meetings.

The hours for this role are working 37.5 hours per week - Monday - Friday 09:00 till 17:00. 

• To sell the company’s services and products to ensure the achievement of targets, Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and overall business objectives.
• To generate prospects, follow up leads, attend sales meetings, generate quotes and conversion of quotes into new business.
• Dealing with customers (Teams, Email, Telephone and Face to Face). 
• Giving excellent customer service and sound product advice. 
• Taking a proactive approach to Assurance sales, using every opportunity to make or increase a sale.
• To ensure that the Client Relationship Management (CRM) system and any other systems utilised by the company are maintained with up to date information.
• To input into the development of the company's sales and marketing strategies, in identifying market sectors, new business opportunities and threats to the business.
• To work closely with the Marketing Team on developing and delivering marketing initiatives to generate new business via social media, Mail shots and collateral materials.
• Perform cost-benefit and gap analysis of existing/potential customers to meet their needs and grow the business.
• Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships.
• Meeting sales goals and objectives as agreed with your Line Manager. 
• Lead qualifying and cold calling businesses. 
• Following up with businesses on quotes. 
• Upholding the Company’s integrity and image to all customers and potential customers. 
• Demonstrating the Company’s Core Values at all times. 
• To undertake such other duties as may be commensurate with the post.

• Industry experience, ideally within assurance.
• Experience of working in one of the following fields - food assurance, food, food manufacturing, food retail. 
• Proven sales ability. 
• Excellent business and industry acumen. 
• Able to present complex information face to face. 
• Tenacious and target driven. 
• Excellent presentation, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills. 
• Strong organisational, multi-tasking and time management skills. 
• Committed to customer care. 
• Adaptable and able to sell into diverse customer base. 
• Proven experience in working to and exceeding targets. 

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates   
• Company Pension Plan
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary)
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service)
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes
• Free parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• We also have in place rewards recognising the great work out employees deliver, their dedicated service and celebrating special life events.

What Happens Next

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths. 
 
Your data 
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
 
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
 
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/