Customer Support Account Manager required £30k Monday to Friday hybrid option once trained working 2/3 days from home
This role has responsibilities in several areas as follows:
- Customer Contact and Vendor Relationship Management: Working in close partnership with Account managers, ensure NHS Trusts & large non-NHS vendor collections run smoothly, have regular contact & maintain positive relationships with all key stakeholders.
- Drive direct sales via 3rd Party portals: Identify suitable products, set pricing, merchandise effectively & manage customer requests in a timely manner
Responsibilities include:
- Maintain positive relationships with all key stakeholders and high priority active Vendors
- Resolve customer queries in advance of collection scheduling, managing consignments and updating vendors where specifically required.
- Vendor reporting: stock and financial reports provided to Vendors on behalf of the sales team
- Triage leads from "contact us" vendor enquiries, dealing with simple leads & passing higher value opportunities (£25k+) to Sales Team for follow up
- Gathering account details for new vendors and maintaining CRM records of all contacts
- Identify vendors not in regular contact, working with Account Managers to make outbound calls
- Identify upcoming large stock opportunities & pass to Account Managers to follow up
- Support quality control checks of webcast sales (quantities, labels, spelling etc)
- Leading relationship with 3rd party sales platforms & acting as subject matter expert on functionality
- Identify and highlight suitable stock for Retail sale and coordinate with Account Managers to agree pricing
- Manage customer enquiries including technical information on specific equipment (with support of Medical Engineering) & support specific equipment sourcing requests
- Capture & pass on customer packing requests.
- Continuously improving efficient & effective communication processes for customer queries with consideration of ongoing Marketing activity
- Conduct webcast sales clerking when required, and support auctioneers
- Support after sales administration as required
Person Specification
- Good knowledge of a broad range of medical equipment & awareness of the UK Healthcare market
- Strong personal drive with a hands-on, detail oriented, analytical approach.
- Commercially minded with proven sales experience
- Strong organisational & problem-solving skills
- Strong relationship management skills
Skills/Qualifications/Experience
- Extensive sales experience
- Extensive knowledge of medical device brands / equipment types & NHS structure
- Familiarity with doing business on eCommerce platforms
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