Junior Sales Coordinator – Fluent in Hebrew – West Yorkshire

Formed in 1996, my client is a global, business-to-business, small order, high service distributor of electronic components and industrial products to the design, maintenance and engineering sectors. They are now recruiting a Sales Coordinator who is fluent in Hebrew to join their Emerging Markets team for Israel and work from their office in Leeds. The principle purpose of the job is the coordination of commercial and marketing initiatives (including telemarketing) to grow active customer base and territory sales and to provide sales administration and customer service to end user customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive and achieve specific sales objectives
• Enquiry response and quotation follow up
• Coordinate marketing activity and commercial support to the Territory (Israel)
• Translation of basic marketing promotions into language where appropriate
• Maintaining service levels to end user customers
• Order Processing
• Liaise with internal suppliers (technical, warehouse and inventory)

Skills and Knowledge

• Must be fluent in Hebrew with specific cultural, language and business experience to suit the Israeli Market
• Proactive sales and negotiation skills
• Experience of working in a sales targeted, customer facing environment
• Awareness and understanding of international trade
• Commercial acumen and understanding of pricing
• Team working skills
• Awareness and understanding of basic marketing tools and techniques
• Data and database manipulation skills - Excel, Siebel
• Creative problem solving
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet demanding deadlines
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong customer service ethos
• Call centre/customer service experience
• Good telephone manner
• Computer and keyboard skills
• Care and attention to detail
• Good organisation skills

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious junior sales coordinator who already has 12 months experience and is now looking for their next position on the career ladder. In return my client offers a generous package with excellent career prospects together with the opportunity for international travel.