Sales Administrator

Reports To: Sales & Marketing Manager

Purpose of Role: Support the sales team and company at large to achieve their cash flow targets and ensure that customer queries are acted upon expeditiously in order to achieve the company’s long-term goal of being the preferred container glass supplier in Eastern Africa.

Top** **Accountabilities:

• Overall responsibility of growing sundry revenue streams.
• Generate quotations for existing and potential customers
• Process customer orders and track delivery status
• Generate pre-shipment & commercial documents for export sales
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly sales performance reports
• Daily Updating of customer stocks in spreadsheet and sharing with all stakeholders.
• Attend to sales enquiries and follow through to conclusion
• Coordinate with warehouse, QA and logistics for stock availability and dispatch
• Updating Pending Delivery Summary and sharing with our customers weekly
• Support sustenance of all management systems within area of jurisdiction

Qualifications,** **and Experience** **Required:

Required skills / qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in business related field
• Professional Marketing qualification desirable
• Proficiency in SAP that the company uses in order creation, billing and delivery

Experience:

• At least three (3) years’ experience in a busy commercial environment with at least two-year’s experience in handling customers

Other competencies include but are not limited to:

• Attention to detail
• Results driven
• Passion for Customer Service
• Ability to build and sustain interpersonal relationships
• Ability to build rapport with customers and other external stakeholders

About Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group is a global leader in metal and glass packaging solutions, producing packaging for the world’s leading brands. We trace our roots all the way back to the Irish Glass Bottle Company, founded

in 1932. Since then, we have grown rapidly to a team of approximately 20,000 people. Today we have a presence across Europe, Africa and the Americas.

• Did you know that Ardagh produces many of the beverage cans and bottles you drink your favourite beverages from?
• Did you know we produce metal and glass packaging which are permanent materials, meaning they can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality?
• Did you know we produce more than 160 million containers per day?

What we offer:

• Opportunity to work in a multicultural environment
• Opportunities for career advancement
• Competitive pay package and benefits
• Opportunity to be part of a high performing team

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. Paper applications will not be accepted.

2. The management reserves the right to use additional/relevant information as criteria for shortlisting.

3. Canvassing will lead to automatic disqualification.

4. AGPK is an equal opportunity employer and as such, we have zero tolerance for discrimination

of any nature during the recruitment and selection process and in general employment practices. AGPK guarantees equality in employment opportunities based on the following grounds: - Race, Color, sexual orientation, language, religion, political or other opinion, nationality, ethnic or social origin, disability, pregnancy, and marital status or HIV status.