Trade Sales Assistant (Part Time - Penrose)

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NZ Safety Blackwoods is looking for a Trade Sales Assistant at the Penrose Trade Centre in Auckland, a part time role covering Friday, Saturday and Sunday with hours discussed at interview. You’ll be the first point of contact for customers, identify their needs, present solutions across our product range, and deliver while upselling and supporting storeman tasks, stock control and dispatch. The ideal candidate will have proven retail or trade experience, a friendly communicator who thrives in a fast paced environment and can build lasting relationships. Highlight POS and Outlook, merchandising, inventory, teamwork and a can do attitude in your application. Benefits include quarterly incentives, staff discounts and no Sunday work.

It’s an exciting time to join NZ Safety Blackwoods! We are looking for a Trade Sales Assistant to join our tight-knit team at our Trade Centre in Penrose.

This is a part time role working Friday, Saturday & Sunday, hours to be discussed at interview.

This isn’t your standard sales role! Its varied and fun! Other aspects of the role include storeman work, computer work and some manual handling.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the first point of call for customers walking through the door
• Interact with customers, identifying their needs and presenting solutions across our wide range of products and services
• Customer service that grows sales and loyalty
• Provide world class customer service - Ensuring customers are always the number one priority
• Upsell at every opportunity
• Liaise with support teams including suppliers by phone, email etc to ensure customer requirements are met accurately and on time.
• Ability to assist, maintain and improve store presentation and visual merchandising standards and selection of products to sell
• Maintain stock levels on shelves ensuring appropriate stock rotation
• Handling, packing and dispatching inwards and outwards goods
• Assist with maintaining accurate inventory within the store

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Will have proven experience in a similar role within the retail, sales and/or trade sector
• Sales driven with a desire to exceed targets and be rewarded for high performance
• A friendly, outgoing personality with excellent communication skills, enthusiasm and a team player
• Be able to quickly build long lasting relationships
• A problem solver who is able to turn challenging situations into a win/win
• Will have a passion for customer service coupled with a ‘can do attitude’
• Will be physically able and thrive on working in a fast paced environment
• Have computer skills to process point of sales counter sales, use of outlook for emails etc

About Us:

At NZ Safety Blackwoods, we are passionate about providing expert knowledge and solutions to our customers. We have a strong reputation as a market leader providing industrial solutions for apparel, footwear, safety, engineering, tools and packaging.

With Trade Centres across New Zealand, as well as a diverse sales team, digital platform and call centre, our goal is to make it safe, easy and efficient to do business whilst providing access to a vast product range covering all business needs.

NZ Safety Blackwoods is all about taking care – taking care of our customers, our community and each other.

Benefits:

• Quarterly sales incentives
• Work with a diverse business with a huge product range selling market leading brands
• Great staff discounts
• Great Career opportunities in a long established successful NZ heritage business that is growing
• No Sunday work involved

Apply now and tell us why it is you that we should be welcoming into the NZ Safety Blackwoods family!

NZ Safety Blackwoods promotes and adheres to the principles and practices of diversity. We are also very proud to be an official partner Mates In Construction Impact Premium.