Porta Romana | B Corp™
Hospitality Sales Advisor (Maternity Cover)
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Company Description
Porta Romana | B Corp™ is a British lighting and furniture company dedicated to creating timeless, long-lasting pieces that are treasured for generations. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, the team transforms everyday forms into extraordinary designs through meticulous craftsmanship. Each product is handcrafted and hand-finished by highly skilled craftspeople, including glassblowers, ceramicists, metalworkers, and sculptors from across the British Isles. Collaboration with exceptional artists and an in-house painting studio, refined over thirty-five years, supports a distinctive design language and a renowned library of custom painted finishes.
As a certified B Corp™, Porta Romana aligns its creative work with responsible and sustainable business practices.
Based in our Farnham, Head Office
We are currently looking for a commercially aware, customer-focused Hospitality Sales Advisor who will thrive on the challenges and complexities of supporting our luxury hotel and hospitality clients.
What you’ll do
- Provide outstanding customer service, manage hospitality projects and sales opportunities, and support key partners, distributors, designers, and hospitality clients while ensuring projects progress smoothly from specification through to order delivery.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with hospitality clients and industry partners.
- Manage incoming enquiries from the Hospitality shared inbox.
- Pursue and convert inbound sales leads.
- Qualify and manage hospitality projects, ensuring specifications, agreements are correctly communicated internally.
- Actively maintain records on Sales Force for each project, ensuring up-to-date information is recorded for reporting and accessibility by others.
- Provide monthly project progress reports, including orders due and key updates to Senior within the department.
- Attend company events, design industry events and sales activities where required.
- Undertake additional duties as required by management.
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What you’ll need
- Previous sales and customer service experience (commercial design project experience advantageous).
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Confident and professional telephone manner.
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
- Able to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
- Proficiency in the use of Office and Excel and ideally Salesforce.
- Keen interest in the Interior Design industry.
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What you’ll get
- A creative working environment and supportive team culture.
- 28 days holiday increasing to 33 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays) with option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
- Access to Perkbox Benefits Platform – offering a variety of discounts across wellbeing and lifestyle.
- 4% company pension contributions after 3 months service.
- Employee Ownership Trust Bonus - In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join our annual company performance-related bonus scheme, this is paid tax-free after 12 months service!
- Corporate gym membership.
- Christmas voucher.
- Help yourself to free fruit, coffee, teas, hot chocolate in our fully stocked kitchens.
- Car pooling incentive scheme.
- Regular social and charity events - including monthly breakfast meetings, monthly and annual employee recognition awards, Summer BBQ and Christmas party.
- Free parking.
- Staff Discount.
- Cycle to work scheme.
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