Opportunity to Join a Customer Service Team

There is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic, fast-growing customer service team. Trade Suppliers will be dealing with customer sales at the trade counter and over the telephone, and will understand incoming deliveries, stock control, and despatch.

Wage: £17,547 a year
Training course: Trade supplier (level 2)
Hours: To be confirmed. 37 hours 30 minutes a week
Start date: Saturday 1 August 2026
Duration: 1 year 3 months
Positions available: 1

What You'll Do at Work

• Processing customer orders
• Taking delivery of goods and inputting them into the system
• Basic admin tasks

Where You'll Work

Piccadilly Way
Kingsbury
Tamworth
Staffordshire
B78 2EB

Training Provider

SKILLNET LIMITED

Training Course

Trade supplier (level 2)

What You'll Learn

Course Contents

• Knowledge and understanding of the organisation’s: communicating confidently to internal and external customers about the company and how it operates
• Knowledge and understanding of the organisation’s: identifying and communicating with the relevant person if a threat or risk to the business is identified
• Specialist trade customer profile of the business: using appropriate techniques and forms of communication to put customers at ease and gain their trust.
• Specialist trade customer profile of the business: delivering customer service that exceeds customer expectations
• Specialist trade customer profile of the business: identifying customer requirements and referring them onwards in an appropriate manner
• Trade counter and telesales services: assisting customers in exploring product ranges and alternative and complementary products and services, based on the fundamental underpinning product knowledge
• Trade counter and telesales services: identifying the customers’ requirements, matching them to the trade supplier’s products and services
• Trade counter and telesales services: delivering accurate product information, to enable the customer to make a decision on products and services and know how to access the detailed technical specification of a product when required.
• Trade counter and telesales services: securing a trade sale using appropriate selling techniques, both face to face and on the telephone, and methods to complete the transaction.
• Trade counter and telesales services: applying basic merchandising techniques used within the business.
• Trade counter and telesales services: applying the key principles of selling in a trade supplier environment, using a variety of methods, which may include unique selling points, upselling, and link selling to secure and complete sales transactions.
• Trade counter and telesales services: communicating with customers using various methods and systems appropriate to the situation
• Trade counter and telesales services: applying the key principles of administration and working practices to accurately prepare, store, communicate and process businesses documentation.
• Trade counter and telesales services: processing information, to the key standards of data protection, security and intellectual property rights.
• Key principles of warehousing and stock control: processing and recording the receipt, storage, assembly and despatch of goods.
• Key principles of warehousing and stock control: receiving stock, despatching customer orders and processing returns in line with company processes.
• Key principles of warehousing and stock control: loading /unloading of supplier and contractor vehicles
• Technologies that are appropriate to the role: using technology appropriately and efficiently in line with business policy, e.g. PoS (point of sale) machines, PCs
• Technologies that are appropriate to the role: demonstrating the use of various technologies, e.g. bespoke/in house or off the shelf software packages to others.
• Legislative responsibilities relating to the business, products and/or services being sold: complying with legal requirements to minimise risk and build customer confidence.
• Legislative responsibilities relating to the business, products and/or services being sold: minimising disruption to the business and maintaining the safety and security of people at all time
• Legislative responsibilities relating to the business, products and/or services being sold: taking appropriate action if a breach of H&S regulations is identified.
• Personal responsibilities and performance contribute to the success of the team and the business: building two-way trust and contribute to working within a team
• Personal responsibilities and performance contribute to the success of the team and the business: collaborating with colleagues to resolve problems.
• Personal responsibilities and performance contribute to the success of the team and the business: managing personal performance by completing tasks to agreed standards and timescales and by taking action to resolve problems and communicating issues beyond own level of competence.
• Personal responsibilities and performance contribute to the success of the team and the business: demonstrating effective time management through planning and prioritising own workload.
• Personal responsibilities and performance contribute to the success of the team and the business: identifying own strengths, weaknesses and development needs.