Team mercian
Finance & Sales Administration assistant
This hybrid role combines finance and sales administration with the exciting opportunity to manage and grow our sponsorship programme. You’ll play a key part in supporting day-to-day operations across three businesses, maintaining accurate records, and building meaningful relationships with our sponsored players and ambassadors.
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Job title: Finance & Sales Administration assistant and Sponsorship Programme manager
Reports to: The Office Manager & Sales Director. Although will work closely with the MD on sponsorship targets.
ABOUT MERCIAN SPORTS
Mercian Sports, we are a specialist field hockey equipment business with nearly 50 years experience in the marketplace … we are looking for the best talent to be part of our team.
As our specialist sports equipment business continues to expand once again we are looking for a new team member to help with that process. The current team is operating at capacity and the new role will be developed to take full advantage of the successful applicants dominant / most positive skill set(s) to maximise the impact on the business.
JOB DESCRIPTION
• Hybrid full time role, flexible across days.
• Office Location: 1, Manor Way, Woking, Surrey.
The position will be a multi-facetted role that combines finance and sales administration, external communications (including customers, sponsored players and retailer customer service) and product analysis – sales and stock.
The position will suit a positive person who enjoys working within a small team in a multi-facetted role. The ideal candidate is confident and personable when picking up the phone and speaking to strangers, has a passion for customer service, great attention to detail and good levels of computer literacy.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
What you’ll do (to start with):
• Follow up with group-wide inbound enquiries promptly and effectively via multiple communication channels (phone and email) to maintain a high level of customer service and engagement both with retail partners, sponsored players and end users
• Support data analysis processes to enable the business to monitor and maintain required stock levels, necessary to service customers
• Work with the sales team to provide quotes, answer enquiries and input orders
• Execute basic bookkeeping for an intermediate level of financial transactions
PERSONAL SKILLS
What you need:
• To be a self-motivated and driven individual
• To have a desire to work within a team, sharing experiences, capabilities, and capacity
• Good timekeeping
• Desire to learn new models and processes.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Intermediate / Advanced level competence using Microsoft Office – including Word and Excel (Excel – data inputting and analysis, including stock management)
• Good level of written and spoken English for internal and external communications
• Ability to use email and work within a specific email protocol
• Good ability to work to deadlines and within a specific staff framework
BENEFITS
What could Mercian Sports offer you?
• Hourly salary commensurate with age and experience
• Flexible working hours / days – Hybrid role.
• Annual leave entitlement pro rata of 20 days plus bank holidays
• Enrolment in government pension scheme
EXTRA DETAILS
Dress Code in the office is casual with an awareness that customers visit the office and so appropriate attire is expected in that instance.
TO APPLY
Email your CV and a covering letter to sales@mercianhockey.com
Kind regards
Simon Mason
Managing Director
Even though I have now retired, the relationship I had with Mercian was really important to me, I feel that I was part of part of a team or family. I loved helping to design the products that I used at the highest level – George Pinner (legacy athlete) 195 Caps for England and GB
Email Us
info@mercianhockey.com
Call Us
+44 (0)1483 757677
Write to Us
1 Manor Way, Old Woking
GU22 9JX. UK
