About Candidate

Education/Qualification

  • GCSEs including Mathematics and English

Systems used

  • Microsoft Word and Excel

Career Summary

Current Employer – Manufacturers

Position – Customer Service Advisor

Dates – May 2024 – Present

  • Ensure that sales enquiries and firm orders are progressed to satisfy client requirements in terms of delivery and price
  • Deal directly and develop relationships with customers by telephone or electronically
  • Ensure high level of customer satisfaction as standard
  • First point of contact for Customer Complaints, to raise on Internal database and handle to conclusion
  • Provide customer quotations on products and services upon request
  • Provide data sheets upon request

Previous Employer – Manufacturers

Position – Customer Service Administrator

Dates – May 2023 – May 2024

  • Serve as first point of contact for customers and prospective customers seeking to obtain advice about our products and services
  • Process and handle all queries and order requests
  • Update and manage central database
  • Ensure high level of customer satisfaction as standard

Previous Employer – Manufacturers  

Position – Customer Service Administrator

Dates – June 2021 – May 2023

  • Ensured that sales enquiries and firm orders are progressed to satisfy client requirements in terms of specification, delivery, and price
  • Dealt directly and develop relationships with customers by telephone or electronically
  • Allocated internal acknowledgment against customer purchase order to the Production and Purchasing Managers for progressing in the case of standard catalogue items
  • In the case of non-standard product enquiries, to ensure that the relevant details are transmitted to the special products and design department for progressing
  • Organised delivery requirements and documentation for UK and Export orders
  • Arranged export consignments and documentation with our allocated freight forwarder
  • Provided customer quotations on products and services upon request
  • Provided basic technical information to customers
  • Produced monthly sales reports for Area Managers

November 2019 – June 2021

Short Term Temporary Assignments

Previous Employer – Construction (Various Temporary Assignments from January 2017 – October 2019)

Position – Invoice Processing Administrator

Dates – November 2018 – October 2019

  • Processed invoices in Oracle matching to Purchase Orders
  • Rejected invalid Invoices back to customer
  • Matched credits to invoices
  • Dealt directly with suppliers for missing information

Position – Procurement Data Analyst

Dates – May 2017 – November 2018

  • Categorised procurement data after transfer from old system to Oracle
  • Analysed data for duplicate information

Position – CIS Coordinator

Dates – January 2017 – May 2017

  • Submitted Subcontractor Tax Verification
  • Checked all CIS returns data is correct
  • Liaised with sub-contractors for any missing information
  • Chased information for urgent invoices
  • Provided guidance to Internal Tax and account teams

August 2016 – December 2016

Short term Temporary Assignments

Previous Employer – Food Manufacturer

Position – Sales Analyst

Dates – February 2015 – July 2016

  • Generated Weekly Sales Report and issue to Category Team and Suppliers
  • Daily order trackers
  • Sales week on week, year on year by account
  • Monitored and track sales on a weekly basis vs. budget and forecast.
  • Breakdown account sales by sub-category and report on case, kg, and pack sales
  • Identify sales trends.
  • Monthly meetings with the supply chain team at the client’s head office in London
  • Completed weekly report detailing account sales performance.
  • Reported on service level issues

Previous Employer – Royal Mail (Several Departments for 6 years)

Dates – 1991 – February 2015

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