Job Title: French speaking Outside Sales Coordinator
Skills: Fluent French, some Spanish. PA/Support experience.
Salary: c£24k
Location: Surrey

The Company:

A leading manufacturer of sports equipment.


Your role:

To provide efficient, effective administrative and PA/secretarial support to the Regional Team of Sales Managers who are out in the field. You will be cross trained in Sales, Customer Service & Credit, enabling you to offer front line support to the outside sales reps. You will also provide effective administration of sales programmes and undertake PA duties as required.

Your primary responsibilities:

- Full administration support to Regional and Area Sales managers including collation of call plans and weekly reports, ensuring supply of stationery needs and any ad hoc projects
- Keep procedures up to date, monitor and manage progress and ensure actions are undertaken.
- Assessing the sales activities and performance of Area Managers against business targets. Providing constant feedback of each Area Sales Manager (ASM) to the Sales Director, reporting results, trends and indicators of each territory.
- Offer customer service to the Outside Sales Team, backed up by in depth knowledge of company systems and processes.
- Department point of contact for internal and external customers screening telephone calls and collating dept mail as required.
- Using the different languages (English, French and Spanish) to coordinate, develop and motivate the sales forces of different countries. Analyse performance results and implement department improvements.
- Maintaining customer files including contracts, SSM’s and correspondence.
- Typing, filing, copying, distribution minute taking and other general secretarial duties
- Diary management – arranging, confirming and cancelling meetings and appointments.
- Travel and accommodation coordination for team as needed to include trade shows, sales meetings, training and product launch events. Assist marketing department with event organisation, and when needed attend events and sales meetings as assigned by the RSM.
- Expenses management for RSM – collating receipts, completing monthly claims.
- Monitor Area Sales Manager Trading and Demo accounts.
- Monitor Free of Charge and Travel & Entertainment budgets.

Your experience and skills:

- At least 3 years secretarial/administrative/PA experience,
- Strong computer skills including Excel, Word and PowerPoint,
- Fast, accurate keyboard skills – minimum 40wpm plus,
- Positive, friendly, flexible and responsible attitude,
- Good team spirit,
- Excellent interpersonal, organisational, communication and listening skills
- A high level of maturity.


People First is a leading multilingual employment agency with a global network of offices in Europe, Australasia and North America. Thank you for your application and we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible. We would however like to make you aware that due to the high number of applications we receive, we are only able to invite for interview those candidates whose skills and experience most closely match the job description. Please note that it is the responsibility of candidates applying for this vacancy to make enquiries of the UK Government about any relevant immigration requirements, and any other conditions that must be satisfied by law for a worker taking up employment within the UK.