Sales Administrators

Sales administrators provide support to the process of selling equipment, materials and other products or services.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 11,477
£ 23,916
£ 39,981

Available jobs

In the past year there were 109,588 vacancies for this type of job

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Carries out general sales and marketing administrative duties.

  • Handles customer complaints or forwards them to relevant member of sales team.

  • Prepares sales invoices and maintains records and accounts of sales activity.

  • Fields telephone enquiries from prospective customers on behalf of the sales team.

  • Help customers to place orders online through social media platforms.

  • Provides information to customers on products and prices.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Invoicing

  • Marketing

  • Customer Relationship Management

  • Sales Administration

  • Administrative Support

  • Order Processing

  • Finance

  • Sales Support

  • Cash Handling

  • Warehousing

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Sales

  • Customer Service

  • Communication

  • Detail Oriented

  • Organizational Skills

  • Self-Motivation

  • Retail Sales

  • Professionalism

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Administrative Functions

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.