Sales Assistant

Salary: £26,695 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Sales Assistant
- Newmarket
- Plumb Centre

So, who are we? We are Wolseley, a leading specialist trade merchant across the UK and Ireland. We pride ourselves in putting our people and customers at the heart of everything we do – and best of all, provide opportunities to develop skills and build careers through our award-winning Wolseley Talent Guild.

Also, did we mention? In addition to the competitive salary, there are also benefits on tap – including...

• Annual leave (increasing with length of service)
• a generous pension scheme (matched up to 9%)
• potential to earn bonuses
• enhanced maternity/adoption leave
• access to a great range of online and high street discounts

We also promote positive health and wellbeing by offering free access to healthcare, our popular YuLife app, our Cycle to Work scheme and more.

As a Sales Assistant based in Newmarket, you’ll be responsible for:

• Serving customers at the trade counter, understanding their needs and providing product recommendations and quotations.
• Building strong customer relationships to drive repeat business, enhance the customer experience, and maximise lifetime value.
• Responding to customer enquiries via phone and email, providing quotes promptly, courteously, and with a proactive approach.
• Supporting general warehouse duties, including booking in stock, putting stock away, and picking and packing customer orders.

This is a full-time permanent role working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 08.00am to 5.00pm.

And here’s what we’d like you to have:

• Prior industry/merchant experience would be advantageous.
• Previous face to face sales and customer service experience.
• Eagerness to learn, with a positive and enthusiastic attitude and a strong work ethic.

Wolseley UK is the country’s largest plumbing, heating and cooling trade specialist merchant and we aim to be the first choice specialist merchant for trade customers. We supply 180,000 different products to over 100,000 customers every year. Join us and you’ll be part of a team that gets the right products to customers at the right price, in the right place, and at the right time.

You’ll also enjoy extensive training and an award-winning pension and great rewards package. And, as part of the world’s largest specialist distributer of plumbing and heating products, you’ll have access to a wide variety of career opportunities.